Eyewear - 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.

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

November

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: Warby Parker stands out as the leading brand in the eyewear industry for email marketing, combining a high volume of emails with excellent scoring. Pair Eyewear and KREWE also perform well, but they need to address promotional content in their emails. Lagging behind are brands like Zenni Optical and Goggles4u, which struggle with both volume and performance.

Email Deliverability Summary: Shwood takes the lead in email deliverability with an exceptional spam score and optimized email size. Pair Eyewear follows closely, though they need improvement in email size. Conversely, Clearly faces challenges with deliverability, with a high spam score and suboptimal email size. Other brands like Lexxola and Goggles4u need significant improvements in both aspects.

Ads Performance Summary: KREWE and Warby Parker lead the eyewear industry in advertising, publishing the most ads with diverse copies. Zenni Optical also performs well in this regard. Lagging behind are brands like Goggles4u and Garrett Leight, requiring a significant boost in their advertising efforts.

Emails sent on average

14.4

Ads published on average

43

Average Spam Score

2.2

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 14.4 60.53%
Shwood
1

❌ Poor

80.0%

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
25

✅ Good

60.84%

⚠️ Fair

KREWE
20

✅ Good

54.55%

⚠️ Fair

Caddis
14

⚠️ Fair

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Lexxola
8

❌ Poor

69.38%

✅ Good

eyebobs
18

✅ Good

59.22%

⚠️ Fair

Goggles4u
30

✅ Good

59.9%

⚠️ Fair

Garrett Leight
10

❌ Poor

60.9%

⚠️ Fair

Vint & York
17

✅ Good

57.29%

⚠️ Fair

Zenni Optical
12

❌ Poor

53.33%

❌ Poor

Jimmy Fairly - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Zeelool
19

✅ Good

53.26%

❌ Poor

Clearly
9

❌ Poor

69.44%

✅ Good

Warby Parker
24

✅ Good

69.54%

✅ Good

Randolph USA
9

❌ Poor

67.78%

✅ 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 -2.21 2,213.56 kb
Shwood
✅ -3.7

✅ Good

1,104.97 kb

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
✅ -2.32

⚠️ Fair

1,548.54 kb

✅ Good

KREWE
✅ -0.86

❌ Poor

2,733.24 kb

❌ Poor

Caddis
- 3,580.24 kb

❌ Poor

Lexxola
✅ -2.34

⚠️ Fair

3,730.88 kb

❌ Poor

eyebobs
✅ -1.91

❌ Poor

837.1 kb

✅ Good

Goggles4u
✅ -2.27

⚠️ Fair

1,219.83 kb

✅ Good

Garrett Leight
✅ -3.4

✅ Good

4,951.44 kb

❌ Poor

Vint & York
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

4,271.47 kb

❌ Poor

Zenni Optical
✅ -2.44

✅ Good

2,758.13 kb

❌ Poor

Jimmy Fairly - EN
- -
Zeelool
✅ -1.48

❌ Poor

1,436.14 kb

✅ Good

Clearly
✅ -4.78

✅ Good

451.81 kb

✅ Good

Warby Parker
✅ -2.54

✅ Good

2,172.97 kb

⚠️ Fair

Randolph USA
✅ -2.57

✅ Good

1,475.77 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 43.27 19.2
Shwood
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pair Eyewear
50

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

KREWE
110

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Caddis
39

⚠️ Fair

18

⚠️ Fair

Lexxola
35

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

eyebobs
24

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

Goggles4u
0

✅ Good

-
Garrett Leight
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Vint & York
13

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Zenni Optical
88

❌ Poor

15

✅ Good

Jimmy Fairly - EN
83

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Zeelool
49

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

Clearly
19

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Warby Parker
103

❌ Poor

38

❌ Poor

Randolph USA
20

✅ Good

15

✅ 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 400 246 37.9%
Shwood
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Pair Eyewear
0

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

98.0%
KREWE
82

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

25.45%
Caddis
15

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

61.54%
Lexxola
17

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

51.43%
eyebobs
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

33.33%
Goggles4u
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Garrett Leight
5

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

44.44%
Vint & York
5

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

61.54%
Zenni Optical
50

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

43.18%
Jimmy Fairly - EN
57

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

31.33%
Zeelool
37

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

24.49%
Clearly
19

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Warby Parker
81

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

21.36%
Randolph USA
15

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

20.0%

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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