Cosmetics - May - 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

May

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 the month of May, Clinique - EN and Bobbi Brown once again took the lead in email marketing, sending a remarkable number of promotional emails. Clinique - EN sent a total of 58 emails, closely followed by Bobbi Brown with 49 emails during this period.

Shifting our focus to ad creation, BOOM by Cindy Joseph claimed the top position by producing 97 new ads, incorporating the highest number of unique ad copies with 58 variations. Freshly Cosmetics secured the second position with 83 new ads.

When it comes to ad strategy, BOOM by Cindy Joseph demonstrated a preference for videos in their May ads, utilizing 53 videos alongside 44 images. On the other hand, Freshly Cosmetics solely focused on videos, unleashing a total of 76 videos.

Emails sent on average

25.7

Ads published on average

45

Average Spam Score

1.6

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 25.67 51.27%
Cocunat
19

❌ Poor

62.32%

✅ Good

Tarte
19

❌ Poor

60.89%

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
58

✅ Good

32.64%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
26

⚠️ Fair

67.15%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
35

✅ Good

67.6%

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
3

❌ Poor

44.33%

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
30

✅ Good

51.5%

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
24

⚠️ Fair

31.46%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
31

✅ Good

59.9%

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
13

❌ Poor

39.54%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
13

❌ Poor

56.46%

✅ Good

ColourPop
30

✅ Good

61.6%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
18

❌ Poor

58.89%

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
49

✅ Good

41.67%

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
17

❌ Poor

53.18%

⚠️ 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 -1.55 1,878.79 kb
Cocunat
✅ -2.18

✅ Good

2,138.01 kb

❌ Poor

Tarte
✅ -7.68

✅ Good

4,039.18 kb

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
🟧 2.43

❌ Poor

1,912.66 kb

⚠️ Fair

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -2.74

✅ Good

737.09 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
✅ -8.14

✅ Good

1,948.28 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hero Cosmetics
✅ -0.17

❌ Poor

2,301.57 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -6.63

✅ Good

1,442.83 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 2.97

❌ Poor

5,646.62 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
✅ -0.08

❌ Poor

813.2 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
🟧 2.47

❌ Poor

1,943.97 kb

⚠️ Fair

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -2.62

✅ Good

1,407.31 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -1.78

✅ Good

1,685.55 kb

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -2.63

✅ Good

977.88 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 2.43

❌ Poor

1,353.82 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -1.52

⚠️ Fair

1,099.45 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 44.93 19.87
Cocunat
64

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Tarte
25

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
31

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
21

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
19

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
60

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
49

⚠️ Fair

19

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
18

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

MAËLYS Cosmetics
30

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
59

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
83

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

ColourPop
60

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
57

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
97

❌ Poor

45

❌ 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 232 421 62.46%
Cocunat
16

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

75.0%
Tarte
15

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

40.0%
Clinique - EN
7

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

74.19%
Mented Cosmetics
2

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

90.48%
Kylie Cosmetics
11

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

42.11%
Hero Cosmetics
22

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

63.33%
IT Cosmetics - US
31

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

28.57%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

100.0%
MAËLYS Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
18

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

69.49%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
0

✅ Good

76

✅ Good

91.57%
ColourPop
37

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

28.33%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bobbi Brown
28

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

45.61%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
44

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

54.64%

Ads detected over time

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