Eyewear - November - 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.

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

December

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 Overview: The eyewear industry has experienced a surge in email activity, with an average of 16.87 emails sent per brand. Goggles4u and Pair Eyewear lead with 32 well-crafted emails each, showcasing good email scoring. Warby Parker follows closely, maintaining a balanced performance. However, KREWE struggles, especially in email scoring, placing it at a potential disadvantage. Brands like Zeelool and Clearly show promise but need to enhance their strategies.

Email Deliverability Insights: Deliverability metrics reveal a nuanced landscape. Shwood excels with a remarkable decrease in spam score and optimal email size. However, Pair Eyewear faces challenges with email size, impacting its overall performance. KREWE and Vint & York demonstrate room for improvement in spam score and email size optimization. Clearly exhibits significant challenges, especially in spam score, urging a critical need for improvement.

Ads Performance: The industry boasts an average of 55.47 ads published per brand. Jimmy Fairly - EN emerges as a leader with 131 ads, showcasing diversity in content. Warby Parker, Zenni Optical, and Zeelool also display robust advertising strategies. In Social Ads Diversity, Caddis and Vint & York lead with a well-balanced mix of images and videos. However, Pair Eyewear's heavy reliance on videos indicates a need for content diversification.

Emails sent on average

16.9

Ads published on average

55

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 16.87 58.1%
Shwood
10

❌ Poor

74.6%

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
32

✅ Good

55.78%

⚠️ Fair

KREWE
20

✅ Good

46.45%

❌ Poor

Caddis
6

❌ Poor

67.67%

✅ Good

Lexxola
13

❌ Poor

69.23%

✅ Good

eyebobs
25

✅ Good

58.36%

⚠️ Fair

Goggles4u
32

✅ Good

54.19%

⚠️ Fair

Garrett Leight
14

❌ Poor

54.0%

⚠️ Fair

Vint & York
20

✅ Good

54.95%

⚠️ Fair

Zenni Optical
16

⚠️ Fair

50.13%

❌ Poor

Jimmy Fairly - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Zeelool
10

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

Clearly
15

❌ Poor

63.93%

✅ Good

Warby Parker
27

✅ Good

67.15%

✅ Good

Randolph USA
13

❌ Poor

56.69%

⚠️ 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 2,219.93 kb
Shwood
✅ -2.73

✅ Good

1,040.23 kb

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
✅ -0.56

❌ Poor

1,789.34 kb

✅ Good

KREWE
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

2,948.25 kb

❌ Poor

Caddis
- 1,383.51 kb

✅ Good

Lexxola
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

2,396.46 kb

⚠️ Fair

eyebobs
✅ -0.85

❌ Poor

729.85 kb

✅ Good

Goggles4u
✅ -1.26

❌ Poor

1,992.17 kb

✅ Good

Garrett Leight
✅ -1.7

⚠️ Fair

3,172.6 kb

❌ Poor

Vint & York
✅ -1.91

⚠️ Fair

4,272.69 kb

❌ Poor

Zenni Optical
✅ -2.76

✅ Good

3,597.56 kb

❌ Poor

Jimmy Fairly - EN
- -
Zeelool
✅ -2.51

✅ Good

1,299.93 kb

✅ Good

Clearly
✅ -6.05

✅ Good

848.78 kb

✅ Good

Warby Parker
✅ -2.32

✅ Good

2,587.13 kb

❌ Poor

Randolph USA
✅ -1.04

❌ Poor

2,349.97 kb

⚠️ Fair

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 55.47 22.4
Shwood
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
55

⚠️ Fair

13

✅ Good

KREWE
55

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

Caddis
80

❌ Poor

16

✅ Good

Lexxola
64

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

eyebobs
24

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Goggles4u
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Garrett Leight
18

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Vint & York
58

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Zenni Optical
88

❌ Poor

17

✅ Good

Jimmy Fairly - EN
131

❌ Poor

14

✅ Good

Zeelool
82

❌ Poor

48

❌ Poor

Clearly
29

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Warby Parker
121

❌ Poor

20

✅ Good

Randolph USA
13

✅ 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 565 267 32.09%
Shwood
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%
Pair Eyewear
0

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

100.0%
KREWE
35

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

36.36%
Caddis
48

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

40.0%
Lexxola
38

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

40.63%
eyebobs
24

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Goggles4u
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Garrett Leight
14

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

22.22%
Vint & York
44

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

24.14%
Zenni Optical
71

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

19.32%
Jimmy Fairly - EN
83

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

36.64%
Zeelool
67

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

18.29%
Clearly
29

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Warby Parker
93

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

23.14%
Randolph USA
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

23.08%

Ads detected over time

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