Cats - September - 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

September

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 is the leader in the Cats industry for email marketing. It sends a high number of emails with good email scoring, but there are too many promotions. Made by Nacho and Travel Cat also perform well in email marketing with good email scores and lower promotion rates. Brands like PrettyLitter need to reduce promotions and improve email scoring.

Email Deliverability Summary: Caats leads in email deliverability with an excellent spam score and optimized email size. Ziggy and Tuft & Paw also perform well in email deliverability with good spam scores and reasonable email sizes. Brands like Smalls and Catalyst need to work on their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: PrettyLitter excels in advertising with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Cat Person and Caats also perform well in advertising. Brands like 9Lives and Smalls need to focus more on their advertising efforts.

In summary, Meowingtons leads in email marketing, while Caats excels in email deliverability. PrettyLitter dominates advertising, with Cat Person and Caats also performing well. Brands like Smalls need to improve both email deliverability and advertising efforts.

Emails sent on average

7.1

Ads published on average

29

Average Spam Score

1.3

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 7.13 53.77%
Caats
4

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ziggy
5

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Tuft & Paw
9

✅ Good

53.22%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
11

✅ Good

67.36%

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
4

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Pusheen Box
2

❌ Poor

50.0%

⚠️ Fair

Travel Cat
17

✅ Good

46.24%

❌ Poor

Meow Mix
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

9Lives
2

❌ Poor

60.0%

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
4

❌ Poor

41.25%

❌ Poor

Cat Person
3

❌ Poor

42.67%

❌ Poor

Meowingtons
39

✅ Good

57.74%

⚠️ Fair

Catalyst
2

❌ Poor

33.5%

❌ Poor

PrettyLitter
5

❌ Poor

42.6%

❌ 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 -1.29 3,074.84 kb
Caats
✅ -2.28

✅ Good

841.86 kb

✅ Good

Ziggy
✅ -1.84

✅ Good

1,755.25 kb

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
🟧 0.09

❌ Poor

4,561.28 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
- -
Made by Nacho
✅ -2.95

✅ Good

2,350.48 kb

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,205.3 kb

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

3,368.11 kb

⚠️ Fair

Travel Cat
✅ -1.09

❌ Poor

2,853.39 kb

⚠️ Fair

Meow Mix
- -
9Lives
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

366.36 kb

✅ Good

Happy & Polly
🟧 0.38

❌ Poor

2,133.23 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

3,786.38 kb

❌ Poor

Meowingtons
✅ -2.59

✅ Good

3,737.42 kb

❌ Poor

Catalyst
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

3,107.66 kb

⚠️ Fair

PrettyLitter
⚠️ 6.9

❌ Poor

3,458.53 kb

❌ Poor

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 29.47 13.33
Caats
85

❌ Poor

46

❌ Poor

Ziggy
13

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

Tuft & Paw
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Smalls
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Republic of Cats
9

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Pusheen Box
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Travel Cat
6

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Meow Mix
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

9Lives
0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
42

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Cat Person
93

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Meowingtons
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Catalyst
21

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

PrettyLitter
122

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

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 98 313 70.81%
Caats
5

✅ Good

79

✅ Good

92.94%
Ziggy
6

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

53.85%
Tuft & Paw
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

75.0%
Smalls
2

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

86.67%
Made by Nacho
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Republic of Cats
7

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

22.22%
Pusheen Box
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Travel Cat
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

16.67%
Meow Mix
1

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%
9Lives
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Happy & Polly
11

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

19.05%
Cat Person
19

✅ Good

73

✅ Good

78.49%
Meowingtons
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Catalyst
2

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

90.48%
PrettyLitter
25

✅ Good

97

✅ Good

79.51%

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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