Designer Clothing - October - 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

October

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: In the Designer Clothing industry, Dior stands out as a leader in email marketing, with a good number of emails sent and solid email scoring. However, they need to address a slightly high promotions percentage. Michael Kors also performs well with excellent email scoring and minimal promotions. Chanel closely follows, maintaining high-quality emails and low promotions. Ted Baker excels in email scoring but should reduce promotions. Stella McCartney demonstrates strong email practices but should reduce promotions. Brands like Ralph Lauren, Prada, Gucci, Balenciaga, JACQUEMUS, Dolce & Gabbana, Zimmermann, LOEWE, and Hermès need to enhance their email marketing strategies, particularly focusing on email scoring and promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Gucci leads in email deliverability with an outstanding spam score and email size. Balenciaga and LOEWE also excel in email deliverability, with low spam scores and good email sizes. Stella McCartney and Ted Baker maintain fair email deliverability with some room for improvement in spam scores and email size. Brands like Dior, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, and Michael Kors maintain good spam scores but need to improve email size. Acne Studios and Zimmermann have a fair spam score and need to work on email size. Ralph Lauren, Hermès, and JACQUEMUS lag behind in email deliverability, primarily due to high spam scores and email size issues.

Ads Performance Summary: Gucci and Michael Kors dominate the advertising performance in the Designer Clothing industry, with the highest number of new ads detected and a wide variety of unique copies. Prada closely follows, excelling in new ads but with room for improvement in unique copies. Dior demonstrates a strong presence with many new ads and unique copies. LOEWE and Dolce & Gabbana exhibit potential in advertising. Other brands like Balenciaga, Stella McCartney, Acne Studios, Zimmermann, Chanel, and JACQUEMUS need to improve their advertising strategies. Ralph Lauren has limited ads detected, indicating a need to enhance its advertising presence.

Emails sent on average

9.2

Ads published on average

54

Average Spam Score

3.5

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 9.2 58.22%
Hermès - EN
3

❌ Poor

30.67%

❌ Poor

Gucci - US
9

⚠️ Fair

70.11%

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
7

❌ Poor

65.43%

✅ Good

LOEWE
5

❌ Poor

56.4%

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
13

✅ Good

58.77%

⚠️ Fair

Ted Baker - UK
14

✅ Good

53.21%

⚠️ Fair

Zimmermann
5

❌ Poor

45.0%

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
18

✅ Good

54.67%

⚠️ Fair

Chanel - EN
14

✅ Good

64.43%

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
6

❌ Poor

57.33%

⚠️ Fair

Acne Studios - US
2

❌ Poor

66.5%

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
6

❌ Poor

59.33%

⚠️ Fair

Ralph Lauren - UK
11

✅ Good

47.64%

❌ Poor

Prada
10

⚠️ Fair

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Michael Kors
15

✅ Good

67.6%

✅ 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 -3.5 3,266.51 kb
Hermès - EN
🟧 3.53

❌ Poor

6,187.41 kb

❌ Poor

Gucci - US
✅ -7.21

✅ Good

1,083.63 kb

✅ Good

Balenciaga - WW
✅ -7.24

✅ Good

2,632.64 kb

✅ Good

LOEWE
✅ -3.1

❌ Poor

4,247.13 kb

❌ Poor

Stella McCartney
✅ -3.56

⚠️ Fair

3,429.73 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ted Baker - UK
✅ -2.24

❌ Poor

6,531.35 kb

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
✅ -4.1

✅ Good

5,525.23 kb

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
✅ -4.15

✅ Good

1,698.86 kb

✅ Good

Chanel - EN
✅ -3.21

⚠️ Fair

717.66 kb

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
✅ -4.1

✅ Good

2,225.94 kb

✅ Good

Acne Studios - US
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

769.45 kb

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

12,196.48 kb

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
✅ -3.05

❌ Poor

3,959.9 kb

❌ Poor

Prada
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

2,864.63 kb

✅ Good

Michael Kors
✅ -2.79

❌ Poor

1,216.21 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 53.6 26.87
Hermès - EN
31

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Gucci - US
134

❌ Poor

59

❌ Poor

Balenciaga - WW
20

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

LOEWE
90

❌ Poor

32

❌ Poor

Stella McCartney
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Ted Baker - UK
0

✅ Good

-
Zimmermann
14

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

Dior - EN
94

❌ Poor

32

❌ Poor

Chanel - EN
32

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
50

⚠️ Fair

17

✅ Good

Acne Studios - US
22

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
34

✅ Good

28

⚠️ Fair

Ralph Lauren - UK
41

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Prada
111

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Michael Kors
116

❌ Poor

34

❌ 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 538 180 22.39%
Hermès - EN
16

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

41.94%
Gucci - US
79

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

20.15%
Balenciaga - WW
10

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

50.0%
LOEWE
73

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

17.78%
Stella McCartney
11

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Ted Baker - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Zimmermann
2

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

42.86%
Dior - EN
67

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

28.72%
Chanel - EN
4

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

65.63%
Dolce & Gabbana
24

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

26.0%
Acne Studios - US
15

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

31.82%
JACQUEMUS
32

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

5.88%
Ralph Lauren - UK
35

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

14.63%
Prada
79

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

17.12%
Michael Kors
91

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

11.21%

Ads detected over time

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