Designer Clothing - 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.

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

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: Michael Kors stands out in the designer clothing industry for email marketing with a good email score and zero promotions. Ted Baker follows with a good email score but a high promotion percentage. Gucci also performs well in email marketing with both a good email score and no promotions. On the other hand, Prada and Ralph Lauren need to improve their email marketing efforts.

Email Deliverability Summary: Gucci excels in email deliverability with a very good spam score and optimized email size. Michael Kors and Dior also perform well in email deliverability. Brands like Balenciaga and Stella McCartney need to enhance their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: LOEWE leads in advertising within the designer clothing industry with the highest number of new ads detected and a good unique copy performance. Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors also perform well in advertising. However, brands like Stella McCartney and Gucci have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, Michael Kors excels in email marketing, Gucci leads in email deliverability, and LOEWE dominates in advertising within the designer clothing industry. However, some brands like Prada and Stella McCartney need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

8.0

Ads published on average

68

Average Spam Score

3.8

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 8.0 59.64%
Hermès - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Gucci
10

✅ Good

70.2%

✅ Good

Balenciaga
9

✅ Good

64.67%

⚠️ Fair

LOEWE
5

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Stella McCartney
12

✅ Good

57.83%

⚠️ Fair

Ted Baker - UK
14

✅ Good

53.79%

⚠️ Fair

Zimmermann
4

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
8

⚠️ Fair

53.38%

❌ Poor

Chanel - EN
12

✅ Good

64.0%

⚠️ Fair

Dolce & Gabbana
9

✅ Good

63.67%

⚠️ Fair

Acne Studios - EN
1

❌ Poor

65.0%

⚠️ Fair

JACQUEMUS
4

❌ Poor

53.5%

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
7

❌ Poor

51.29%

❌ Poor

Prada
9

✅ Good

51.44%

❌ Poor

Michael Kors
16

✅ Good

67.13%

✅ 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 -3.82 2,872.5 kb
Hermès - EN
- -
Gucci
✅ -7.1

✅ Good

1,079.11 kb

✅ Good

Balenciaga
✅ -7.32

✅ Good

3,797.62 kb

❌ Poor

LOEWE
✅ -3.1

❌ Poor

5,796.45 kb

❌ Poor

Stella McCartney
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

2,071.36 kb

✅ Good

Ted Baker - UK
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

3,571.59 kb

❌ Poor

Zimmermann
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

6,217.44 kb

❌ Poor

Dior - EN
✅ -6.0

✅ Good

1,429.83 kb

✅ Good

Chanel - EN
✅ -2.83

❌ Poor

1,183.86 kb

✅ Good

Dolce & Gabbana
✅ -3.43

❌ Poor

2,321.45 kb

✅ Good

Acne Studios - EN
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,305.4 kb

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
✅ -3.53

⚠️ Fair

6,986.35 kb

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
✅ -4.74

✅ Good

4,002.58 kb

❌ Poor

Prada
✅ -2.88

❌ Poor

4,841.34 kb

❌ Poor

Michael Kors
✅ -2.19

❌ Poor

1,477.56 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 68.33 35.0
Hermès - EN
20

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Gucci
42

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

Balenciaga
50

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

LOEWE
128

❌ Poor

39

❌ Poor

Stella McCartney
30

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Ted Baker - UK
73

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

Zimmermann
51

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

Dior - EN
90

❌ Poor

40

❌ Poor

Chanel - EN
85

❌ Poor

54

❌ Poor

Dolce & Gabbana
52

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Acne Studios - EN
74

⚠️ Fair

31

✅ Good

JACQUEMUS
68

⚠️ Fair

48

❌ Poor

Ralph Lauren - UK
103

❌ Poor

34

⚠️ Fair

Prada
69

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Michael Kors
90

❌ Poor

24

✅ 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 706 237 23.12%
Hermès - EN
2

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

80.0%
Gucci
9

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

26.19%
Balenciaga
40

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

20.0%
LOEWE
110

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

10.16%
Stella McCartney
30

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Ted Baker - UK
66

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

9.59%
Zimmermann
24

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

33.33%
Dior - EN
57

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

28.89%
Chanel - EN
29

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

41.18%
Dolce & Gabbana
47

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Acne Studios - EN
58

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

16.22%
JACQUEMUS
54

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

20.59%
Ralph Lauren - UK
71

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

25.24%
Prada
28

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

59.42%
Michael Kors
81

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

10.0%

Ads detected over time

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