Fitness - February - 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

March

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In February, Peloton dominated in terms of email and advertising, having sent 20 emails and launched 106 new ads. Peloton also surpassed its competitors in creating new ad copies, producing 35 in total and it leaned heavily towards videos, with a video proportion of 67% with 40 new videos vs. 16 new images in their new launched ads this month.

Emails sent on average

8.7

Ads published on average

20

Average Spam Score

2.3

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 8.73 54.92%
Gymshark
7

❌ Poor

61.57%

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
7

❌ Poor

53.86%

⚠️ Fair

obé fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Quell
2

❌ Poor

32.0%

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
19

✅ Good

57.11%

⚠️ Fair

Echelon
6

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
14

✅ Good

53.71%

⚠️ Fair

WIT Fitness
13

✅ Good

50.69%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
20

✅ Good

53.3%

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
7

❌ Poor

67.14%

✅ Good

Rogue
18

✅ Good

57.67%

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
9

⚠️ Fair

58.11%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
7

❌ Poor

33.71%

❌ Poor

Tonal
2

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ 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 -2.25 2,733.25 kb
Gymshark
✅ -4.24

✅ Good

3,003.78 kb

⚠️ Fair

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -4.36

✅ Good

4,191.12 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
- -
Quell
- 9,286.41 kb

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
✅ -1.44

❌ Poor

1,889.11 kb

✅ Good

Echelon
✅ -2.63

✅ Good

3,453.34 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -1.11

❌ Poor

2,543.92 kb

⚠️ Fair

WIT Fitness
✅ -0.74

❌ Poor

3,122.5 kb

❌ Poor

Peloton
✅ -3.12

✅ Good

3,181.77 kb

❌ Poor

The DB Method
✅ -3.67

✅ Good

1,201.42 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -4.27

✅ Good

1,805.38 kb

✅ Good

FightCamp
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

3,213.94 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
🟧 2.27

❌ Poor

2,992.54 kb

⚠️ Fair

Tonal
✅ -4.15

✅ Good

941.26 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 20.4 11.67
Gymshark
52

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

obé fitness
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Quell
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

PRx Performance
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Echelon
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

TRX Training
0

✅ Good

-
WIT Fitness
21

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

Peloton
106

❌ Poor

35

❌ Poor

The DB Method
30

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Rogue
16

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

FightCamp
34

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Ergatta
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Tonal
0

✅ 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 92 140 53.85%
Gymshark
13

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

30.77%
Vanquish Fitness
10

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

33.33%
obé fitness
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Quell
2

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
PRx Performance
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
Echelon
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Wahoo Fitness
2

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
TRX Training
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
WIT Fitness
7

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

66.67%
Peloton
16

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

66.67%
The DB Method
5

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

83.33%
Rogue
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

18.75%
FightCamp
17

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

50.0%
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Tonal
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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