Cosmetics - June - 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

June

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 June, Clinique emerged again as the leader in emails with 67 emails sent, followed by Bobbi Brown with 46 emails during the same month. All the emails sent by Clinique and Bobbi Brown this month are promotional.

Shifting to advertising, Cocunat took the lead with 123 new ads created, while MAELYS Cosmetics secured the second position with 108 new ads.

Regarding their ad strategies, both Cocunat and MAELYS Cosmetics prioritized videos over images. Cocunat utilized 114 videos compared to just 9 images, while MAELYS Cosmetics incorporated 104 videos and only 4 images in their ad campaigns.

Emails sent on average

23.7

Ads published on average

47

Average Spam Score

0.9

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 23.67 50.3%
Cocunat
18

❌ Poor

66.39%

✅ Good

Tarte
20

❌ Poor

58.55%

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
67

✅ Good

31.64%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
26

⚠️ Fair

64.0%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
13

❌ Poor

62.62%

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
6

❌ Poor

50.5%

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
26

⚠️ Fair

53.19%

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
22

⚠️ Fair

26.77%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
33

✅ Good

65.88%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
10

❌ Poor

36.6%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
6

❌ Poor

49.33%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
34

✅ Good

62.32%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
17

❌ Poor

56.47%

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
45

✅ Good

45.56%

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
12

❌ Poor

54.33%

⚠️ 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 -0.94 1,867.32 kb
Cocunat
✅ -2.09

✅ Good

731.87 kb

✅ Good

Tarte
✅ -7.08

✅ Good

3,480.55 kb

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
🟧 2.64

❌ Poor

2,135.05 kb

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -1.27

✅ Good

745.68 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
✅ -6.56

✅ Good

2,426.83 kb

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
🟧 0.12

❌ Poor

2,565.1 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -7.27

✅ Good

1,456.76 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 3.9

❌ Poor

5,914.9 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -1.24

✅ Good

625.41 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
⚠️ 5.6

❌ Poor

2,477.88 kb

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -0.53

❌ Poor

1,424.08 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -2.78

✅ Good

1,936.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -1.39

✅ Good

1,021.46 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 2.66

❌ Poor

1,075.9 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -2.4

✅ Good

1,429.76 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 46.8 19.67
Cocunat
123

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Tarte
70

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
63

❌ Poor

15

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
25

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
15

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
35

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Smashbox
0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
108

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
95

❌ Poor

40

❌ Poor

ColourPop
42

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
44

⚠️ Fair

20

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
69

❌ 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 159 532 75.78%
Cocunat
9

✅ Good

114

✅ Good

92.68%
Tarte
7

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

90.0%
Clinique - EN
16

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

74.6%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
22

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

8.0%
Hero Cosmetics
7

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

53.33%
IT Cosmetics - US
12

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

60.0%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
4

✅ Good

104

✅ Good

96.3%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
5

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

44.44%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
4

✅ Good

84

✅ Good

88.42%
ColourPop
33

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

19.05%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bobbi Brown
20

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

54.55%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
16

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

76.81%

Ads detected over time

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