Fitness - April - 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.

Fitness

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

Fitness

industry, for the month of

April

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In April, Peloton was surpassed in both email and ad numbers. Rogue took the lead in terms of emails sent with 18 emails, followed by Peloton and PRx Performance, both sending 16 emails.

The DB Method created the highest number of new ads with 60, followed by WIT Fitness with 58 new ads and Gymshark with 51 new ads, which also had the highest number of ad copies with 42 in total.

When it comes to ad strategy, The DB Method is more focused on videos, creating 55 new videos versus only 5 new images. WIT Fitness also emphasizes videos in their new ads with 38 new videos compared to 20 new images.

Emails sent on average

9.0

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 9.0 51.73%
Gymshark
5

❌ Poor

66.2%

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
12

✅ Good

58.42%

✅ Good

obé fitness
1

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Quell
4

❌ Poor

69.5%

✅ Good

PRx Performance
16

✅ Good

60.75%

✅ Good

Echelon
12

✅ Good

53.67%

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
15

✅ Good

52.07%

⚠️ Fair

WIT Fitness
13

✅ Good

49.31%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
16

✅ Good

41.56%

❌ Poor

The DB Method
7

❌ Poor

59.86%

✅ Good

Rogue
18

✅ Good

45.44%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
3

❌ Poor

44.67%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
9

⚠️ Fair

35.89%

❌ Poor

Tonal
4

❌ Poor

51.75%

⚠️ 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 -1.5 3,151.71 kb
Gymshark
✅ -6.1

✅ Good

3,252.67 kb

⚠️ Fair

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -2.96

✅ Good

3,625.54 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
✅ -4.9

✅ Good

467.65 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -1.35

⚠️ Fair

698.91 kb

✅ Good

PRx Performance
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

1,234.18 kb

✅ Good

Echelon
🟧 0.48

❌ Poor

3,733.15 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

3,469.76 kb

❌ Poor

WIT Fitness
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

3,642.62 kb

❌ Poor

Peloton
✅ -2.73

✅ Good

4,202.47 kb

❌ Poor

The DB Method
✅ -2.24

✅ Good

1,172.5 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -1.77

✅ Good

2,601.62 kb

✅ Good

FightCamp
✅ -1.7

✅ Good

7,987.55 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
🟧 1.48

❌ Poor

4,986.79 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
🟧 0.15

❌ Poor

1,845.59 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 27.33 15.87
Gymshark
51

❌ Poor

34

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
24

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

obé fitness
12

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Quell
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

PRx Performance
28

⚠️ Fair

26

❌ Poor

Echelon
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
20

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

TRX Training
48

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
58

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Peloton
30

⚠️ Fair

16

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
60

❌ Poor

14

✅ Good

Rogue
9

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

FightCamp
14

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Ergatta
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Tonal
30

⚠️ Fair

13

✅ 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 127 242 59.02%
Gymshark
7

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

21.57%
Vanquish Fitness
9

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

54.17%
obé fitness
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%
Quell
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
PRx Performance
7

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

67.86%
Echelon
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

30.0%
Wahoo Fitness
16

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

20.0%
TRX Training
9

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

81.25%
WIT Fitness
20

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

65.52%
Peloton
11

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

63.33%
The DB Method
5

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

91.67%
Rogue
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
FightCamp
4

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

71.43%
Ergatta
5

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
Tonal
13

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

56.67%

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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