Cosmetics - February - 2024


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

May

2024

. 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 Performance: Bobbi Brown and Clinique lead in email marketing performance, each sending 57 emails with good email scoring despite differing promotion rates, highlighting consistent engagement efforts and effective audience targeting strategies. Kylie Cosmetics follows closely, sending 29 emails with good email scoring but relatively low promotion rates, indicating opportunities for enhancing promotional strategies while maintaining engagement quality. ColourPop demonstrates strong email marketing with 28 emails sent, showcasing both good email scoring and promotion rates, effectively engaging with its target audience through strategic content delivery.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Cocunat excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and email size performance, ensuring effective content management and consistent inbox placement. Tarte maintains strong email deliverability with good email size performance, suggesting efficient content optimization practices and consistent inbox delivery. Clinique exhibits fair email deliverability with a slight decrease in spam score and fair email size performance, indicating opportunities for refining content optimization strategies while maintaining inbox placement consistency.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: MAËLYS Cosmetics emerges as the leader in advertising impact and diversity with 84 impactful ads, showcasing both volume and variety in content, effectively positioning itself in the competitive cosmetics market. Kylie Cosmetics closely follows with 79 impactful ads, reflecting robust advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively engaging with its target audience. Bobbi Brown maintains solid advertising impact with 70 impactful ads, exhibiting good diversity in new images and videos, indicating effective content variation and innovation strategies.

Emails sent on average

22.1

Ads published on average

49

Average Spam Score

3.0

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 22.07 58.39%
Cocunat
13

❌ Poor

63.46%

⚠️ Fair

Tarte
17

❌ Poor

50.06%

❌ Poor

Clinique - US
64

✅ Good

51.92%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
25

✅ Good

48.2%

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
9

❌ Poor

57.67%

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
24

⚠️ Fair

66.21%

✅ Good

Smashbox
29

✅ Good

47.03%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
25

✅ Good

68.4%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - UK
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
11

❌ Poor

54.64%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
26

✅ Good

75.08%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
12

❌ Poor

59.5%

⚠️ Fair

Bobbi Brown
46

✅ Good

61.04%

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
29

✅ Good

61.62%

⚠️ 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 -2.95 1,914.7 kb
Cocunat
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,703.4 kb

✅ Good

Tarte
- 3,094.71 kb

❌ Poor

Clinique - US
✅ -3.22

⚠️ Fair

1,740.3 kb

⚠️ Fair

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -3.8

✅ Good

121.24 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
- 3,098.19 kb

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

2,118.93 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -6.25

✅ Good

1,240.92 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
✅ -1.81

❌ Poor

4,157.16 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -2.19

❌ Poor

501.26 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - UK
- -
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -3.03

⚠️ Fair

1,363.67 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -3.79

✅ Good

1,692.2 kb

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

1,111.59 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
✅ -2.66

⚠️ Fair

1,203.35 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -2.28

❌ Poor

2,083.59 kb

⚠️ Fair

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 49.33 16.07
Cocunat
102

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Tarte
42

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Clinique - US
48

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
39

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
85

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
24

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Smashbox
18

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

MAËLYS Cosmetics
88

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - UK
45

⚠️ Fair

11

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
33

✅ Good

-
ColourPop
29

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
40

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
90

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
57

❌ Poor

26

❌ 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 277 463 62.57%
Cocunat
15

✅ Good

87

✅ Good

85.29%
Tarte
21

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

50.0%
Clinique - US
18

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

62.5%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
23

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

41.03%
Hero Cosmetics
51

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

40.0%
IT Cosmetics - US
0

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

100.0%
Smashbox
1

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

94.44%
MAËLYS Cosmetics
39

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

55.68%
MAC Cosmetics - UK
4

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

91.11%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

100.0%
ColourPop
17

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

41.38%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
0

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

100.0%
Bobbi Brown
51

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

43.33%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
37

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

35.09%

Ads detected over time

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