Designer Clothing - January - 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

February

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: Ted Baker leads the designer clothing industry with 16 emails sent, showing good email scoring performance but requiring improvements in promotional content diversity. Michael Kors closely follows with 13 emails, demonstrating excellent email scoring performance and balanced promotional content. Chanel emerges as a strong performer with 13 emails sent, needing enhancements in email scoring and promotional content diversity to remain competitive. Gucci - US presents itself with 13 emails, signaling good email scoring performance and a balanced promotional approach. Prada and Dior - EN face challenges in email marketing, necessitating strategic adjustments to enhance performance and competitiveness.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Hermès struggles in email deliverability with a negative spam score and inefficient email size management, positioning itself as a notable underperformer in the designer clothing industry. Gucci - US excels in email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management, distinguishing itself as a leader in the industry. Balenciaga demonstrates strong email deliverability with a positive spam score and effective email size management, reflecting its strong market presence. LOEWE showcases potential in email deliverability with a positive spam score but requires improvements in email size management to optimize deliverability and competitiveness. Ted Baker and Zimmermann face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to enhance email deliverability and competitiveness.

Advertising Performance: Prada leads in advertising with 172 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence in the designer clothing industry. Dior - EN closely follows with 162 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. Chanel demonstrates potential in advertising with 146 impactful ads, requiring enhancements in diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness. Ted Baker - UK and Gucci - US face challenges in advertising volume and diversity, necessitating strategic adjustments to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Emails sent on average

7.4

Ads published on average

81

Average Spam Score

4.6

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 7.4 60.33%
Hermès - US
1

❌ Poor

32.0%

❌ Poor

Gucci - US
13

✅ Good

68.38%

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
7

⚠️ Fair

72.57%

✅ Good

LOEWE
5

❌ Poor

58.6%

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ted Baker - UK
16

✅ Good

47.38%

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
4

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
9

✅ Good

62.33%

⚠️ Fair

Chanel - EN
13

✅ Good

62.85%

⚠️ Fair

Dolce & Gabbana
8

⚠️ Fair

60.5%

⚠️ Fair

Acne Studios - US
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

JACQUEMUS
5

❌ Poor

64.2%

⚠️ Fair

Ralph Lauren - UK
6

❌ Poor

53.17%

❌ Poor

Prada
11

✅ Good

59.73%

⚠️ Fair

Michael Kors
13

✅ Good

66.46%

✅ 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 -4.61 2,775.93 kb
Hermès - US
🟧 0.2

❌ Poor

3,427.54 kb

❌ Poor

Gucci - US
✅ -8.43

✅ Good

1,154.44 kb

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
✅ -8.67

✅ Good

1,067.8 kb

✅ Good

LOEWE
✅ -4.1

❌ Poor

3,398.55 kb

❌ Poor

Stella McCartney
- -
Ted Baker - UK
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

4,035.7 kb

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

4,284.01 kb

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
✅ -7.72

✅ Good

1,580.73 kb

✅ Good

Chanel - EN
✅ -2.95

❌ Poor

1,085.73 kb

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
✅ -0.29

❌ Poor

1,060.7 kb

✅ Good

Acne Studios - US
- -
JACQUEMUS
✅ -4.6

⚠️ Fair

11,135.13 kb

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
✅ -4.57

⚠️ Fair

2,353.77 kb

✅ Good

Prada
✅ -4.19

⚠️ Fair

4,947.2 kb

❌ Poor

Michael Kors
✅ -2.69

❌ Poor

1,728.83 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 81.0 34.13
Hermès - US
57

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Gucci - US
94

❌ Poor

34

⚠️ Fair

Balenciaga - WW
73

⚠️ Fair

13

✅ Good

LOEWE
83

⚠️ Fair

37

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
10

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Ted Baker - UK
112

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Zimmermann
36

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Dior - EN
162

❌ Poor

50

❌ Poor

Chanel - EN
146

❌ Poor

72

❌ Poor

Dolce & Gabbana
82

⚠️ Fair

24

✅ Good

Acne Studios - US
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
63

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

Ralph Lauren - UK
49

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Prada
172

❌ Poor

30

✅ Good

Michael Kors
71

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

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 691 524 43.13%
Hermès - US
24

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

57.89%
Gucci - US
76

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

19.15%
Balenciaga - WW
46

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

36.99%
LOEWE
51

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

38.55%
Stella McCartney
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
Ted Baker - UK
79

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

29.46%
Zimmermann
28

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

22.22%
Dior - EN
69

✅ Good

93

✅ Good

57.41%
Chanel - EN
39

✅ Good

107

✅ Good

73.29%
Dolce & Gabbana
40

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

51.22%
Acne Studios - US
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
JACQUEMUS
49

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

22.22%
Ralph Lauren - UK
43

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

12.24%
Prada
78

✅ Good

94

✅ Good

54.65%
Michael Kors
60

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

15.49%

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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