Cosmetics - September - 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

September

2023

. 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 Summary: Clinique and Bobbi Brown lead the cosmetics industry in email marketing with good email scores. ColourPop also performs well with a high email score and a balanced promotion percentage. On the other hand, brands like Kylie Cosmetics and Hero Cosmetics need to improve their email marketing efforts.

Email Deliverability Summary: Cocunat excels in email deliverability with a very good spam score and optimized email size. Tarte and MAËLYS Cosmetics also perform well in email deliverability. MAC Cosmetics needs to improve its email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Freshly Cosmetics dominates in advertising, with the highest number of new ads detected and a good unique copy performance. MAËLYS Cosmetics and Cocunat also perform well in advertising. Brands like Smashbox and Mented Cosmetics have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, Clinique and Bobbi Brown lead in email marketing, Cocunat excels in email deliverability, and Freshly Cosmetics dominates in advertising within the cosmetics industry. However, some brands like Kylie Cosmetics and Hero Cosmetics need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

21.5

Ads published on average

39

Average Spam Score

0.6

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 21.53 53.52%
Cocunat
13

❌ Poor

69.92%

✅ Good

Tarte
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Clinique - EN
53

✅ Good

39.47%

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
14

❌ Poor

72.5%

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
12

❌ Poor

50.17%

⚠️ Fair

Hero Cosmetics
11

❌ Poor

58.27%

⚠️ Fair

IT Cosmetics - US
26

✅ Good

62.62%

✅ Good

Smashbox
24

✅ Good

30.17%

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
30

✅ Good

58.43%

⚠️ Fair

MAC Cosmetics - EN
13

❌ Poor

39.85%

❌ Poor

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
10

❌ Poor

56.6%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
41

✅ Good

73.05%

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
12

❌ Poor

70.42%

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
52

✅ Good

43.77%

❌ Poor

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
12

❌ Poor

60.33%

✅ Good

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 -0.59 2,154.22 kb
Cocunat
✅ -2.44

✅ Good

687.7 kb

✅ Good

Tarte
- -
Clinique - EN
🟧 0.92

❌ Poor

4,039.34 kb

❌ Poor

Mented Cosmetics
✅ -3.93

✅ Good

568.48 kb

✅ Good

Kylie Cosmetics
- 4,908.88 kb

❌ Poor

Hero Cosmetics
✅ -1.82

✅ Good

2,502.03 kb

❌ Poor

IT Cosmetics - US
✅ -7.37

✅ Good

1,101.3 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 2.83

❌ Poor

6,012.74 kb

❌ Poor

MAËLYS Cosmetics
🟧 0.5

❌ Poor

702.49 kb

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
🟧 2.06

❌ Poor

1,899.93 kb

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

1,693.89 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -2.87

✅ Good

1,221.04 kb

✅ Good

Benefit Cosmetics - US
✅ -3.34

✅ Good

620.41 kb

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
🟧 3.88

❌ Poor

1,453.34 kb

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
✅ -2.69

✅ Good

805.53 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 39.33 19.53
Cocunat
79

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Tarte
46

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Clinique - EN
35

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
21

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Hero Cosmetics
44

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

IT Cosmetics - US
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Smashbox
0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
87

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

MAC Cosmetics - EN
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Freshly Cosmetics - EN
119

❌ Poor

53

❌ Poor

ColourPop
35

✅ Good

21

⚠️ Fair

Benefit Cosmetics - US
12

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Bobbi Brown
37

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

BOOM by Cindy Joseph
57

❌ 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 164 416 70.51%
Cocunat
1

✅ Good

78

✅ Good

98.73%
Tarte
30

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

34.78%
Clinique - EN
6

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

82.86%
Mented Cosmetics
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kylie Cosmetics
14

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

33.33%
Hero Cosmetics
33

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

25.0%
IT Cosmetics - US
3

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

76.92%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
MAËLYS Cosmetics
1

✅ Good

86

✅ Good

98.85%
MAC Cosmetics - EN
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Freshly Cosmetics - EN
1

✅ Good

108

✅ Good

90.76%
ColourPop
23

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

34.29%
Benefit Cosmetics - US
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

25.0%
Bobbi Brown
21

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

43.24%
BOOM by Cindy Joseph
17

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

70.18%

Ads detected over time

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