Designer Clothing - February - 2024


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.

Designer Clothing

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Designer Clothing

industry, for the month of

May

2024

. 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 Performance: Michael Kors emerges as the top performer in email marketing, sending 13 emails with a high engagement score of 67.69%, reflecting effective audience targeting and content resonance. Gucci closely follows, with 12 emails sent and a good email scoring of 67.5%, indicating consistent engagement efforts and effective content strategies. Chanel demonstrates strong email marketing performance, sending 12 emails with a good email scoring of 61.33%, showcasing effective audience engagement strategies and content relevance.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Gucci leads in email deliverability with a significantly low spam score and good email size performance, ensuring consistent inbox placement and optimized content management. Balenciaga maintains good email deliverability with a low spam score and good email size performance, indicating successful inbox placement consistency and content optimization efforts. Dior demonstrates solid email deliverability with a low spam score and good email size performance, reflecting effective content management strategies and consistent inbox placement.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Prada emerges as the leader in advertising impact and diversity with 205 impactful ads, showcasing both volume and variety in content, effectively positioning itself in the competitive designer clothing brands market. Dior closely follows with 132 impactful ads, reflecting robust advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively engaging with its target audience. Ted Baker maintains solid advertising impact with 114 impactful ads, exhibiting good diversity in new images and videos, indicating effective content variation and innovation strategies.

Emails sent on average

6.5

Ads published on average

76

Average Spam Score

4.0

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 6.53 59.45%
Hermès - US
4

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

Gucci - US
14

✅ Good

68.07%

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
5

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

LOEWE
5

❌ Poor

58.8%

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ted Baker - UK
10

✅ Good

48.1%

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
5

❌ Poor

48.0%

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
4

❌ Poor

50.0%

❌ Poor

Chanel - US
15

✅ Good

60.2%

⚠️ Fair

Dolce & Gabbana
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Acne Studios - US
1

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

JACQUEMUS
3

❌ Poor

50.67%

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
8

✅ Good

50.13%

❌ Poor

Prada
8

✅ Good

55.38%

⚠️ Fair

Michael Kors
16

✅ Good

70.06%

✅ 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 -3.97 2,342.59 kb
Hermès - US
- 1,282.31 kb

✅ Good

Gucci - US
✅ -7.31

✅ Good

1,394.09 kb

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
✅ -5.5

✅ Good

1,458.52 kb

✅ Good

LOEWE
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

3,143.11 kb

❌ Poor

Stella McCartney
- -
Ted Baker - UK
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

2,436.14 kb

⚠️ Fair

Zimmermann
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

3,718.12 kb

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
✅ -6.5

✅ Good

2,934.95 kb

❌ Poor

Chanel - US
✅ -2.66

❌ Poor

1,833.4 kb

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
- -
Acne Studios - US
- 2,003.98 kb

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
✅ -2.83

❌ Poor

4,955.71 kb

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
✅ -4.7

✅ Good

2,325.19 kb

⚠️ Fair

Prada
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

6,822.45 kb

❌ Poor

Michael Kors
✅ -3.12

❌ Poor

604.65 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 76.2 27.0
Hermès - US
42

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Gucci - US
57

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
107

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

LOEWE
78

⚠️ Fair

29

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
60

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Ted Baker - UK
78

⚠️ Fair

14

✅ Good

Zimmermann
79

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Dior - EN
126

❌ Poor

67

❌ Poor

Chanel - US
55

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
104

❌ Poor

40

❌ Poor

Acne Studios - US
23

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
0

✅ Good

-
Ralph Lauren - UK
81

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Prada
146

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Michael Kors
107

❌ Poor

40

❌ 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 713 430 37.62%
Hermès - US
10

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

76.19%
Gucci - US
40

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

29.82%
Balenciaga - WW
87

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

18.69%
LOEWE
43

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

44.87%
Stella McCartney
59

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

1.67%
Ted Baker - UK
43

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

44.87%
Zimmermann
59

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

25.32%
Dior - EN
73

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

42.06%
Chanel - US
8

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

85.45%
Dolce & Gabbana
59

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

43.27%
Acne Studios - US
14

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

39.13%
JACQUEMUS
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ralph Lauren - UK
56

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

30.86%
Prada
94

✅ Good

52

✅ Good

35.62%
Michael Kors
68

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

36.45%

Ads detected over time

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Some of the assets (emails, ads) used in this benchmark to measure performance

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