Cosmetics - August - 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

August

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In August, Clinique and Bobbi Brown led in emails, sending 67 and 48 promotional emails respectively.

Regarding advertising, Cocunat held the top position with 140 new ads created, and ColourPop followed with 112 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Cocunat focused more on videos compared to images, whereas ColourPop emphasized images over videos. Cocunat used 130 videos and only 10 images, while ColourPop utilized 90 images and 20 videos.


Emails sent on average

21.2

Ads published on average

48

Average Spam Score

0.1

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 21.2 49.9%
Cocunat
12

❌ Poor

64.17%

✅ Good

Tarte
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
67

✅ Good

31.51%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
18

❌ Poor

66.17%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
10

❌ Poor

58.3%

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
28

✅ Good

60.96%

✅ Good

Smashbox
23

⚠️ Fair

28.26%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
30

✅ Good

63.63%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
16

❌ Poor

37.5%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
7

❌ Poor

57.0%

✅ Good

ColourPop
37

✅ Good

75.3%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
16

❌ Poor

61.75%

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
48

✅ Good

38.98%

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
6

❌ Poor

50.5%

⚠️ 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 -0.09 1,669.55 kb
Cocunat
✅ -2.06

✅ Good

978.32 kb

✅ Good

Tarte
- -
Clinique - EN
🟧 2.25

❌ Poor

2,210.97 kb

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -2.54

✅ Good

764.25 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
- -
Hero Cosmetics
✅ -2.0

✅ Good

1,723.77 kb

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -7.48

✅ Good

1,053.47 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
⚠️ 4.96

❌ Poor

5,579.3 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
🟧 0.07

❌ Poor

613.34 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
🟧 3.18

❌ Poor

1,857.05 kb

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -2.04

✅ Good

1,456.06 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -2.65

✅ Good

1,057.8 kb

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -2.41

✅ Good

892.12 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 3.45

❌ Poor

1,314.48 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -2.4

✅ Good

1,235.49 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 47.8 20.93
Cocunat
140

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Tarte
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
19

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
14

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
76

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
54

❌ Poor

18

✅ Good

Smashbox
0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
91

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
6

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
76

❌ Poor

40

❌ Poor

ColourPop
112

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
14

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
36

✅ Good

19

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
76

❌ Poor

71

❌ 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 227 478 66.67%
Cocunat
10

✅ Good

130

✅ Good

92.86%
Tarte
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Clinique - EN
8

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

57.89%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

28.57%
Hero Cosmetics
35

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

53.95%
IT Cosmetics - US
20

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

50.0%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
9

✅ Good

82

✅ Good

90.11%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

73

✅ Good

96.05%
ColourPop
90

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

17.86%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
6

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

57.14%
Bobbi Brown
16

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

55.56%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
17

✅ Good

59

✅ Good

77.63%

Ads detected over time

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