Eyewear - 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.

Eyewear

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

Eyewear

industry, for the month of

July

2024

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

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Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Insights: Goggles4u leads with 30 emails, heavily focusing on promotions. Warby Parker and Pair Eyewear follow, sending 24 and 22 emails, respectively. While Warby Parker maintains good engagement, Pair Eyewear's promotional content is lower, at just 9%. Zeelool and Vint & York also sent a notable number of emails, though with less impactful engagement. Brands like Garrett Leight, Randolph, and KREWE are falling behind with fewer emails. Shwood and Jimmy Fairly lag significantly, needing more consistent email efforts to enhance their reach.

Deliverability and Spam Scores: Clearly and Zenni Optical lead in spam scores with -6.53 and -3.54, respectively, indicating excellent deliverability. Goggles4u also performs well at -3.59. Shwood, despite low email volume, has a high spam score of -0.7, indicating deliverability issues. Garrett Leight and Vint & York struggle with spam scores and email sizes, impacting performance. Zeelool and Warby Parker show good spam scores but need to improve email content. Poor scores from brands like Lexxola, Eyebobs, and Jimmy Fairly suggest a need for better email practices to avoid spam folders.

Advertising Strategies and Performance: Lexxola and Zenni Optical dominate advertising with 103 and 96 ads, respectively, showing strong market presence. Caddis and Zeelool also perform well with 77 and 76 ads. Warby Parker maintains high visibility with 69 ads. Pair Eyewear, Clearly, and Goggles4u have moderate ad volumes, while Jimmy Fairly and Garrett Leight lag with fewer ads, impacting their market presence. Lexxola excels in social ads with 52 images and 51 videos, while Goggles4u and Zenni Optical also show strong diversity. Brands with low ad activity need to increase efforts to stay competitive.

Emails sent on average

13.5

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 13.53 60.42%
Shwood
5

❌ Poor

54.0%

❌ Poor

Pair Eyewear
18

✅ Good

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

KREWE
17

✅ Good

48.71%

❌ Poor

Caddis
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Lexxola
15

✅ Good

68.8%

✅ Good

eyebobs
27

✅ Good

63.78%

⚠️ Fair

Goggles4u
36

✅ Good

63.94%

⚠️ Fair

Garrett Leight
12

❌ Poor

56.67%

⚠️ Fair

Vint & York
10

❌ Poor

56.9%

⚠️ Fair

Zenni Optical
9

❌ Poor

54.11%

❌ Poor

Jimmy Fairly - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Zeelool
20

✅ Good

62.85%

⚠️ Fair

Clearly
9

❌ Poor

60.11%

⚠️ Fair

Warby Parker
14

⚠️ Fair

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Randolph USA
11

❌ Poor

58.64%

⚠️ Fair

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 -1.87 2,127.95 kb
Shwood
✅ -0.44

❌ Poor

3,625.36 kb

❌ Poor

Pair Eyewear
✅ -1.7

⚠️ Fair

2,034.67 kb

⚠️ Fair

KREWE
✅ -1.81

⚠️ Fair

3,355.71 kb

❌ Poor

Caddis
- -
Lexxola
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

3,068.54 kb

❌ Poor

eyebobs
✅ -1.65

❌ Poor

591.02 kb

✅ Good

Goggles4u
✅ -1.61

❌ Poor

1,055.58 kb

✅ Good

Garrett Leight
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

3,430.63 kb

❌ Poor

Vint & York
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

4,210.76 kb

❌ Poor

Zenni Optical
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

2,570.9 kb

❌ Poor

Jimmy Fairly - EN
- -
Zeelool
✅ -2.28

✅ Good

1,361.95 kb

✅ Good

Clearly
✅ -5.28

✅ Good

671.4 kb

✅ Good

Warby Parker
- 3,522.03 kb

❌ Poor

Randolph USA
✅ -1.69

⚠️ Fair

2,835.04 kb

❌ Poor

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 25.47 11.73
Shwood
12

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
30

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

KREWE
43

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Caddis
42

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Lexxola
0

✅ Good

-
eyebobs
56

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Goggles4u
9

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Garrett Leight
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Vint & York
30

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Zenni Optical
0

✅ Good

-
Jimmy Fairly - EN
40

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Zeelool
52

❌ Poor

37

❌ Poor

Clearly
27

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Warby Parker
29

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Randolph USA
7

✅ Good

3

✅ 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 249 133 34.82%
Shwood
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

41.67%
Pair Eyewear
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
KREWE
27

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

37.21%
Caddis
24

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

42.86%
Lexxola
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
eyebobs
51

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

8.93%
Goggles4u
7

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

22.22%
Garrett Leight
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Vint & York
27

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

10.0%
Zenni Optical
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Jimmy Fairly - EN
14

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

65.0%
Zeelool
31

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

40.38%
Clearly
27

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Warby Parker
22

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

24.14%
Randolph USA
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

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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