Cosmetics - April - 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.

Cosmetics

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

Cosmetics

industry, for the month of

April

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In April, Clinique - EN and Bobbi Brown took the lead in the number of promotional emails sent, with 68 and 53 emails respectively. Freshly Cosmetics and MAELYS Cosmetics were the top brands in terms of new ads created with 60 and 59 new ads respectively. Freshly Cosmetics and MAELYS Cosmetics focused their ad strategies on video content, with 100% of their new media featuring videos and no new images.

Compared to March, Clinique - EN decreased their promotional emails by 1, while Bobbi Brown increased theirs by 4. Freshly Cosmetics maintained their lead in the number of new ads created, but changed their ad strategy to focus exclusively on videos.

Emails sent on average

24.7

Ads published on average

29

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 24.73 51.61%
Cocunat
1

❌ Poor

46.0%

❌ Poor

Tarte
18

❌ Poor

57.78%

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
68

✅ Good

37.35%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
28

✅ Good

67.96%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
30

✅ Good

63.1%

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
4

❌ Poor

51.25%

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
28

✅ Good

52.21%

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
17

❌ Poor

31.18%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
31

✅ Good

62.9%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
13

❌ Poor

39.69%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
12

❌ Poor

61.83%

✅ Good

ColourPop
36

✅ Good

62.5%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
14

❌ Poor

56.86%

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
53

✅ Good

44.26%

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
18

❌ Poor

51.5%

⚠️ Fair

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 -1.85 1,861.55 kb
Cocunat
🟧 0.8

❌ Poor

531.22 kb

✅ Good

Tarte
✅ -6.46

✅ Good

3,721.32 kb

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
🟧 1.22

❌ Poor

1,860.88 kb

⚠️ Fair

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -2.38

✅ Good

1,301.15 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
✅ -8.16

✅ Good

2,963.6 kb

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
✅ -1.08

❌ Poor

1,987.37 kb

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -7.24

✅ Good

1,479.84 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 3.45

❌ Poor

5,747.88 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -0.56

❌ Poor

586.62 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
🟧 1.13

❌ Poor

1,569.25 kb

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -2.02

⚠️ Fair

554.16 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -3.38

✅ Good

2,038.27 kb

⚠️ Fair

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -1.74

⚠️ Fair

844.27 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 0.85

❌ Poor

1,304.43 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -1.84

⚠️ Fair

1,365.13 kb

✅ Good

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 28.87 13.73
Cocunat
42

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Tarte
30

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
20

✅ Good

16

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
19

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
IT Cosmetics - US
36

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Smashbox
21

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

MAËLYS Cosmetics
59

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
39

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
60

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

ColourPop
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
43

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
55

❌ Poor

43

❌ 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 90 336 77.6%
Cocunat
3

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

92.86%
Tarte
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
Clinique - EN
0

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

100.0%
Mented Cosmetics
1

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

85.71%
Kylie Cosmetics
12

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

36.84%
Hero Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
IT Cosmetics - US
22

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

38.89%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

100.0%
MAËLYS Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

59

✅ Good

100.0%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
25

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

35.9%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

93.33%
ColourPop
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bobbi Brown
11

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

69.77%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
15

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

72.73%

Ads detected over time

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