Designer Clothing - 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.

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

April

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, Ted Baker took the lead with a high number of emails, sending 21 emails, followed by Michael Kors with 15 emails.

Prada and Dior launched the same number of new ads during this month, creating 60 new ads.

The majority of brands in the benchmark have prioritized images over videos in their new ads this month. For instance, Balenciaga utilized images in 98% of its new ads media, compared to only 2% of videos.

Emails sent on average

8.5

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

3.1

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 8.53 54.97%
Hermès - EN
4

❌ Poor

28.25%

❌ Poor

Gucci
13

✅ Good

57.46%

⚠️ Fair

Balenciaga
9

⚠️ Fair

62.33%

✅ Good

LOEWE
7

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
12

✅ Good

56.33%

⚠️ Fair

Ted Baker - UK
21

✅ Good

44.86%

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
5

❌ Poor

41.4%

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
6

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Chanel - EN
14

✅ Good

62.29%

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
3

❌ Poor

61.0%

✅ Good

Acne Studios - EN
7

❌ Poor

62.0%

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
5

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Prada
7

❌ Poor

52.86%

⚠️ Fair

Michael Kors
15

✅ Good

65.53%

✅ 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 -3.11 2,664.16 kb
Hermès - EN
🟧 2.7

❌ Poor

1,549.56 kb

✅ Good

Gucci
✅ -6.9

✅ Good

2,014.23 kb

✅ Good

Balenciaga
✅ -7.32

✅ Good

3,081.72 kb

❌ Poor

LOEWE
✅ -2.96

⚠️ Fair

2,713.81 kb

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

2,019.39 kb

✅ Good

Ted Baker - UK
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

4,540.55 kb

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

5,694.2 kb

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

2,590.81 kb

⚠️ Fair

Chanel - EN
✅ -2.5

❌ Poor

666.17 kb

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

1,431.91 kb

✅ Good

Acne Studios - EN
✅ -2.24

❌ Poor

1,538.18 kb

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
- -
Ralph Lauren - UK
✅ -4.6

✅ Good

3,235.82 kb

❌ Poor

Prada
✅ -1.53

❌ Poor

5,474.21 kb

❌ Poor

Michael Kors
✅ -2.33

❌ Poor

1,293.96 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 27.2 12.67
Hermès - EN
27

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Gucci
26

⚠️ Fair

10

✅ Good

Balenciaga
50

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

LOEWE
0

✅ Good

-
Stella McCartney
0

✅ Good

-
Ted Baker - UK
24

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Zimmermann
23

✅ Good

21

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
60

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

Chanel - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Dolce & Gabbana
29

⚠️ Fair

18

❌ Poor

Acne Studios - EN
0

✅ Good

-
JACQUEMUS
0

✅ Good

-
Ralph Lauren - UK
79

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Prada
60

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Michael Kors
30

❌ Poor

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 231 116 28.43%
Hermès - EN
9

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

44.44%
Gucci
5

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

50.0%
Balenciaga
49

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

2.0%
LOEWE
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Stella McCartney
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ted Baker - UK
13

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

45.83%
Zimmermann
10

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

30.43%
Dior - EN
38

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

31.67%
Chanel - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Dolce & Gabbana
4

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

44.83%
Acne Studios - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
JACQUEMUS
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ralph Lauren - UK
50

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

27.85%
Prada
24

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

28.33%
Michael Kors
29

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

3.33%

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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