Cats - October - 2023


The result? A comparative analysis that highlight the best performers of any ecommerce DTC niche, for any given month.

This benchmark analyze the behaviour of 15 Direct-To-Consumers (DTC) brands in the Supplement industry. Our goal is to compare their marketing velocity (how active they are in their digital marketing strategy) and how to they perform vs. each other.

Cats

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Cats

industry, for the month of

October

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Summary: Meowingtons leads the cat industry in email marketing, consistently delivering good-performing emails with a high score and a balanced promotion strategy. Travel Cat, Made by Nacho, and Happy & Polly show promise with good scores, although they need to refine their promotions. Tuft & Paw, Ziggy, and Caats fall in a fair category and should enhance both scoring and promotional aspects. Smalls, Republic of Cats, Pusheen Box, Meow Mix, Catalyst, and PrettyLitter need significant improvements, especially in scoring and promotions, to compete effectively in the market.

Email Deliverability Summary: Caats excels in email deliverability, maintaining a good spam score and optimal email size. Ziggy, Made by Nacho, Republic of Cats, and Happy & Polly also show promising deliverability performance. Tuft & Paw, Travel Cat, and Meow Mix need improvements in both spam scores and email sizes. Smalls faces challenges and should enhance both spam scores and email sizes for better deliverability. PrettyLitter, Cat Person, 9Lives, and Pusheen Box are lagging behind and need a significant overhaul in both spam scores and email sizes.

Ads Performance Summary: Cat Person, PrettyLitter, and Caats lead in ads performance, demonstrating high velocity and a diverse range of unique copies. Happy & Polly, Travel Cat, Republic of Cats, and Meow Mix also maintain commendable ad strategies. Ziggy, Tuft & Paw, and Catalyst show potential but need improvements. Meowingtons, Pusheen Box, Made by Nacho, 9Lives, and Smalls are lagging behind and need to enhance their ads strategies for better overall performance.

Emails sent on average

7.5

Ads published on average

26

Average Spam Score

1.4

Email Marketing Benchmark Breakdown

Email Marketing Performances

In this table, we benchmark how many emails brands have send and their average email scores, which we calculate using over 50 datapoints that measure how much best practices are ensured (spam score, email authenticiation & certificates, email size, subject line lenght, word & links count etc.)

Brand # Emails Sent Performance Email Scoring Performance
Average 7.47 53.01%
Caats
7

⚠️ Fair

53.14%

⚠️ Fair

Ziggy
7

⚠️ Fair

49.29%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
8

⚠️ Fair

49.75%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
6

❌ Poor

63.17%

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
11

✅ Good

65.36%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
5

❌ Poor

60.0%

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
3

❌ Poor

51.67%

⚠️ Fair

Travel Cat
15

✅ Good

34.4%

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
2

❌ Poor

61.5%

✅ Good

9Lives
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Happy & Polly
8

⚠️ Fair

44.13%

❌ Poor

Cat Person
1

❌ Poor

48.0%

⚠️ Fair

Meowingtons
39

✅ Good

57.15%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Email Deliverability Performances

In this table, we benchmark how much the emails are optimized for delivery ie. if they're likely to pass spam filters and not land in the Promotions tab.

Brand Average Spam Score Performance Email Size Performance
Average -1.38 3,269.59 kb
Caats
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

1,206.77 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
✅ -1.06

❌ Poor

1,750.06 kb

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
🟧 0.5

❌ Poor

6,359.87 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
- 248.97 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -2.19

✅ Good

1,986.17 kb

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

964.6 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ -1.83

✅ Good

8,551.44 kb

❌ Poor

Travel Cat
🟧 0.64

❌ Poor

3,024.93 kb

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,463.82 kb

✅ Good

9Lives
- -
Happy & Polly
✅ -1.74

✅ Good

4,850.81 kb

❌ Poor

Cat Person
- 5,249.92 kb

❌ Poor

Meowingtons
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

3,806.16 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
- -
PrettyLitter
- -

Email sent over time

Advertising performances and activity

Ad Velocity

In this table, we benchmark the brands velocity and performances - how much ads they've been publishing, and how many different copy has been used.

Brand New Ads Detected Performance Unique Copy Performance
Average 25.6 9.8
Caats
41

❌ Poor

33

❌ Poor

Ziggy
17

✅ Good

10

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Smalls
0

✅ Good

-
Made by Nacho
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
0

✅ Good

-
Travel Cat
20

✅ Good

18

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
24

⚠️ Fair

14

❌ Poor

Cat Person
139

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
12

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
112

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Ad Diversity (Images vs. Videos ratio)

In this table, we benchmark the brands diversity of assets when it comes to Social Ads - especially the images vs. videos ratio.

Brand New Images Performance New Videos Performance Video Proportion
Average 72 296 77.08%
Caats
1

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

97.56%
Ziggy
4

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

64.71%
Tuft & Paw
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
Smalls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Made by Nacho
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Republic of Cats
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Pusheen Box
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Travel Cat
11

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

45.0%
Meow Mix
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Cat Person
30

✅ Good

109

✅ Good

78.42%
Meowingtons
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Catalyst
2

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

75.0%
PrettyLitter
4

✅ Good

107

✅ Good

95.54%

Ads detected over time

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Some of the assets (emails, ads) used in this benchmark to measure performance

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