Cosmetics - March - 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

March

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In March, Clinique - EN sent 69 promotional emails, followed by Bobbi Brown with 49 promotional emails. Freshly Cosmetics took the lead in the number of new ads created with 60 new ads launched, primarily focused on video content with 98% of their new media featuring videos. BOOM by Cindy Joseph came in second with 47 new ads, with a preference for video content at 70% and the remainder for images. Stay up-to-date with Clinique - EN, Bobbi Brown, Freshly Cosmetics, and BOOM by Cindy Joseph's latest promotions and advertising strategies.

Emails sent on average

24.7

Ads published on average

18

Average Spam Score

2.2

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 24.73 52.93%
Cocunat
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tarte
25

⚠️ Fair

58.72%

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
69

✅ Good

39.75%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
26

⚠️ Fair

66.88%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
32

✅ Good

66.69%

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
5

❌ Poor

54.4%

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
25

⚠️ Fair

54.12%

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
14

❌ Poor

29.79%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
30

✅ Good

66.6%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
15

❌ Poor

38.2%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
15

❌ Poor

57.67%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
37

✅ Good

61.19%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
14

❌ Poor

58.14%

⚠️ Fair

Bobbi Brown
48

✅ Good

46.23%

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
16

❌ Poor

48.63%

⚠️ 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 -2.19 1,823.15 kb
Cocunat
- -
Tarte
✅ -7.03

✅ Good

3,437.1 kb

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
🟧 0.81

❌ Poor

1,750.56 kb

⚠️ Fair

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -2.41

⚠️ Fair

680.18 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
✅ -8.69

✅ Good

2,575.67 kb

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
✅ -1.9

❌ Poor

2,413.61 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -7.9

✅ Good

1,422.03 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 3.23

❌ Poor

5,840.07 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -0.96

❌ Poor

551.95 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
🟧 0.75

❌ Poor

1,646.0 kb

⚠️ Fair

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -1.58

❌ Poor

1,490.59 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -2.58

✅ Good

2,131.2 kb

❌ Poor

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -2.1

⚠️ Fair

789.18 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 0.78

❌ Poor

1,232.55 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -2.29

⚠️ Fair

1,719.49 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 18.13 11.0
Cocunat
20

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Tarte
30

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
22

❌ Poor

18

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
16

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
IT Cosmetics - US
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Smashbox
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

MAËLYS Cosmetics
29

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
60

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

ColourPop
0

✅ Good

-
Benefit Cosmetics - US
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
22

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
47

❌ Poor

37

❌ 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 53 213 78.31%
Cocunat
3

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

85.0%
Tarte
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
Clinique - EN
1

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

90.91%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Kylie Cosmetics
15

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

6.25%
Hero Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
IT Cosmetics - US
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
MAËLYS Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

100.0%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
1

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

93.33%
ColourPop
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Benefit Cosmetics - US
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
Bobbi Brown
8

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

54.55%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
14

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

70.21%

Ads detected over time

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