Fitness - August - 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

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

In August, Rogue and PRx Performance led in emails, sending 16 and 14 emails, respectively.

Looking at advertising, Peloton and The DB Method maintained their positions as leaders. Peloton created 118 new ads, while The DB Method launched 70.

In terms of ad strategy, both Peloton and The DB Method emphasized videos over images. Peloton used 74 videos compared to 43 images, while The DB Method utilized 64 videos and only 5 images.

Emails sent on average

7.3

Ads published on average

34

Average Spam Score

1.6

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 7.27 54.73%
Gymshark
7

⚠️ Fair

62.43%

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
12

✅ Good

52.33%

⚠️ Fair

obé fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Quell
2

❌ Poor

50.0%

⚠️ Fair

PRx Performance
13

✅ Good

48.31%

❌ Poor

Echelon
10

✅ Good

50.0%

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
13

✅ Good

62.15%

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
14

✅ Good

58.29%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

The DB Method
7

⚠️ Fair

61.43%

✅ Good

Rogue
16

✅ Good

44.44%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
2

❌ Poor

50.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
1

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Tonal
12

✅ Good

62.5%

✅ 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 -1.61 2,845.51 kb
Gymshark
✅ -3.17

✅ Good

4,300.37 kb

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -3.13

✅ Good

4,445.55 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
- -
Quell
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,199.1 kb

✅ Good

PRx Performance
✅ -0.58

❌ Poor

2,692.74 kb

⚠️ Fair

Echelon
✅ -2.22

✅ Good

2,178.32 kb

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -1.05

❌ Poor

3,051.68 kb

⚠️ Fair

WIT Fitness
✅ -1.78

✅ Good

3,125.71 kb

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
- -
The DB Method
✅ -2.96

✅ Good

1,231.2 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -1.66

⚠️ Fair

3,577.13 kb

❌ Poor

FightCamp
- 3,015.7 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
✅ -1.3

❌ Poor

878.7 kb

✅ Good

Tonal
✅ -0.71

❌ Poor

777.46 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 33.8 18.47
Gymshark
69

❌ Poor

35

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
37

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

obé fitness
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Quell
27

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

PRx Performance
60

❌ Poor

58

❌ Poor

Echelon
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

TRX Training
19

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
24

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Peloton
118

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

The DB Method
70

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Rogue
15

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

FightCamp
0

✅ Good

-
Ergatta
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Tonal
50

❌ Poor

5

✅ 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 156 290 57.2%
Gymshark
30

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

21.74%
Vanquish Fitness
19

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

43.24%
obé fitness
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Quell
3

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

88.89%
PRx Performance
13

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

38.33%
Echelon
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Wahoo Fitness
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
TRX Training
3

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

73.68%
WIT Fitness
5

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

79.17%
Peloton
43

✅ Good

74

✅ Good

62.71%
The DB Method
5

✅ Good

64

✅ Good

91.43%
Rogue
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

33.33%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Tonal
18

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

64.0%

Ads detected over time

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