Cosmetics - January - 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

February

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 emerges as the leader in email marketing with 67 emails sent, boasting strong performance in email scoring despite needing improvements in promotional content diversification. Clinique closely follows with 61 emails, showcasing good performance in email scoring but lacking diversity in promotional strategies. Kylie Cosmetics exhibits potential with 33 emails sent, demonstrating good email scoring performance but requiring enhancements in promotional content variety. ColourPop and MAËLYS Cosmetics showcase strong performances with 32 and 29 emails, respectively, reflecting balanced email scoring and effective promotional strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Cocunat demonstrates strong email deliverability with a positive spam score and effective email size management, positioning itself as a notable player in this aspect. Kylie Cosmetics excels in email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management, contrasting with other brands in the industry. Hero Cosmetics and Freshly Cosmetics face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to enhance email deliverability. Smashbox and ColourPop exhibit potential in email deliverability but require enhancements in spam scores and email size management to optimize email deliverability and competitiveness in the Cosmetics Brands industry.

Advertising Performance: MAËLYS Cosmetics leads in advertising with 90 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence. Kylie Cosmetics closely follows with 89 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. Cocunat demonstrates potential in advertising but requires enhancements in both volume and diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the Cosmetics Brands industry. Tarte and IT Cosmetics face challenges in advertising volume and diversity, necessitating strategic adjustments to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Emails sent on average

23.5

Ads published on average

39

Average Spam Score

2.7

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 23.47 54.24%
Cocunat
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tarte
23

⚠️ Fair

48.78%

❌ Poor

Clinique - US
61

✅ Good

46.18%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kylie Cosmetics
33

✅ Good

45.82%

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
5

❌ Poor

48.0%

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
24

⚠️ Fair

66.21%

✅ Good

Smashbox
27

✅ Good

34.37%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
29

✅ Good

64.03%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - UK
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
13

❌ Poor

56.23%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
32

✅ Good

73.31%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
18

❌ Poor

53.78%

⚠️ Fair

Bobbi Brown
67

✅ Good

58.51%

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
20

❌ Poor

53.05%

⚠️ 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 -2.67 2,177.32 kb
Cocunat
- -
Tarte
- 1,825.26 kb

✅ Good

Clinique - US
✅ -2.82

⚠️ Fair

2,370.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Mented Cosmetics
- -
Kylie Cosmetics
✅ -4.6

✅ Good

3,649.62 kb

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
✅ -1.86

❌ Poor

2,801.85 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -8.36

✅ Good

1,058.45 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
✅ -0.35

❌ Poor

6,236.44 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -1.81

❌ Poor

889.04 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - UK
- -
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -2.33

❌ Poor

1,987.19 kb

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
✅ -2.86

⚠️ Fair

1,588.34 kb

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -1.02

❌ Poor

1,012.2 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
✅ -2.78

⚠️ Fair

1,497.56 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -0.38

❌ Poor

1,530.78 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 38.53 14.0
Cocunat
84

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Tarte
43

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Clinique - US
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
89

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
58

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
33

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Smashbox
0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
60

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - UK
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

-
ColourPop
13

✅ Good

13

⚠️ Fair

Benefit Cosmetics - US
60

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
70

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
55

❌ Poor

53

❌ 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 223 355 61.42%
Cocunat
31

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

63.1%
Tarte
27

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

37.21%
Clinique - US
1

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

88.89%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
63

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

29.21%
Hero Cosmetics
35

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

39.66%
IT Cosmetics - US
20

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

39.39%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
15

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

75.0%
MAC Cosmetics - UK
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
ColourPop
2

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
0

✅ Good

60

✅ Good

100.0%
Bobbi Brown
20

✅ Good

50

✅ Good

71.43%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
5

✅ Good

50

✅ Good

90.91%

Ads detected over time

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