Cosmetics - July - 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

July

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

During July, Clinique and Bobbi Brown continue to take the lead in emails. Clinique sent 56 promotional emails, while Bobbi Brown sent 46 promotional emails.

As for advertising, Cocunat leads again with 138 new ads created, and MAELYS Cosmetics follows in the second position with 118 new ads.

Regarding ad strategy, both Cocunat and MAELYS Cosmetics prioritized videos. Cocunat used 130 videos and only 8 images, while MAELYS Cosmetics used 83 videos and 35 images.

Emails sent on average

23.1

Ads published on average

54

Average Spam Score

1.1

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 23.07 52.92%
Cocunat
19

❌ Poor

68.47%

✅ Good

Tarte
14

❌ Poor

59.21%

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
56

✅ Good

38.05%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
19

❌ Poor

69.05%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
5

❌ Poor

65.2%

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
25

⚠️ Fair

56.88%

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
20

❌ Poor

30.65%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
31

✅ Good

62.9%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
11

❌ Poor

39.27%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
11

❌ Poor

55.64%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
43

✅ Good

68.33%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
19

❌ Poor

57.37%

⚠️ Fair

Bobbi Brown
46

✅ Good

43.76%

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
27

✅ Good

49.74%

⚠️ 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 -1.09 1,693.4 kb
Cocunat
✅ -1.39

✅ Good

889.73 kb

✅ Good

Tarte
✅ -5.37

✅ Good

2,509.6 kb

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
🟧 1.78

❌ Poor

1,632.98 kb

⚠️ Fair

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -2.83

✅ Good

612.39 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
- -
Hero Cosmetics
✅ -3.7

✅ Good

2,218.97 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -8.57

✅ Good

1,429.77 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 3.13

❌ Poor

5,722.38 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -0.13

❌ Poor

784.43 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
🟧 2.15

❌ Poor

1,856.5 kb

⚠️ Fair

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -1.76

✅ Good

1,582.59 kb

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
✅ -2.74

✅ Good

1,510.21 kb

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -2.49

✅ Good

828.23 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 1.98

❌ Poor

1,539.11 kb

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -1.63

✅ Good

2,069.89 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 53.73 22.2
Cocunat
138

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Tarte
28

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
51

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
48

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
88

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
45

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Smashbox
0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
118

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
90

❌ Poor

40

❌ Poor

ColourPop
47

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
62

❌ Poor

24

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
81

❌ Poor

78

❌ 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 299 496 61.54%
Cocunat
8

✅ Good

130

✅ Good

94.2%
Tarte
19

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

32.14%
Clinique - EN
30

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

41.18%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
26

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

45.83%
Hero Cosmetics
38

✅ Good

50

✅ Good

56.82%
IT Cosmetics - US
29

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

35.56%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
35

✅ Good

83

✅ Good

70.34%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
14

✅ Good

66

✅ Good

73.33%
ColourPop
27

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

40.43%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bobbi Brown
37

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

40.32%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
26

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

67.9%

Ads detected over time

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