Fitness - February - 2024


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

June

2024

. 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 Performance: Rogue leads with 19 emails, demonstrating strong activity. Peloton follows with 17 emails but struggles with promotional engagement. Echelon and TRX Training sent 16 and 15 emails, respectively, with TRX Training excelling in engagement. Vanquish Fitness sent 13 emails but needs to improve promotional efforts. Ergatta and PRx Performance show moderate activity with 11 and 9 emails. Gymshark also sent 9 emails with decent engagement. FightCamp, The DB Method, and Tonal sent fewer emails and need to increase engagement. obé fitness, WIT Fitness, Wahoo Fitness, and Quell had no email activity and are lagging.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Peloton excels in deliverability with a spam score of -5.1 and fair email size. Rogue also performs well with a score of -2.6 and a manageable size. PRx Performance shows good results with -2.19 and a compact email size. Echelon has a fair spam score but a good email size. Gymshark and FightCamp need to improve their email sizes despite decent spam scores. The DB Method and Tonal need to address their spam scores and sizes. Ergatta and TRX Training require significant improvements in both spam scores and email sizes to enhance performance.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Gymshark dominates with 251 new ads and 63 unique copies, showing high activity and diversity. Vanquish Fitness and Peloton follow with 69 and 55 new ads, respectively, both performing well in ad diversity. Wahoo Fitness shows good ad activity but needs better copy diversity. Rogue is active with 37 new ads but can improve in uniqueness. Brands like Ergatta, Echelon, TRX Training, and PRx Performance need to increase both ad volume and diversity. The DB Method, obé fitness, Tonal, and Quell show minimal ad activity and need significant improvements in their advertising strategies.

Emails sent on average

6.1

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

0.6

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 6.13 52.52%
Gymshark - US
7

✅ Good

49.0%

⚠️ Fair

Vanquish Fitness
13

✅ Good

49.31%

⚠️ Fair

obé fitness
4

❌ Poor

67.25%

✅ Good

Quell
1

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

PRx Performance
9

✅ Good

69.78%

✅ Good

Echelon
12

✅ Good

32.83%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
15

✅ Good

55.8%

⚠️ Fair

WIT Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Peloton
1

❌ Poor

85.0%

✅ Good

The DB Method
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Rogue
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
1

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
15

✅ Good

49.4%

⚠️ Fair

Tonal
14

✅ Good

56.14%

⚠️ 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 -0.58 2,760.04 kb
Gymshark - US
🟧 0.11

❌ Poor

2,929.04 kb

⚠️ Fair

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -0.18

❌ Poor

2,383.36 kb

✅ Good

obé fitness
✅ -1.85

✅ Good

1,124.18 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

11,387.35 kb

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
✅ -1.31

✅ Good

756.27 kb

✅ Good

Echelon
✅ -1.25

✅ Good

4,573.82 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -0.07

❌ Poor

1,542.19 kb

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
- -
Peloton
✅ -5.6

✅ Good

278.83 kb

✅ Good

The DB Method
- -
Rogue
- -
FightCamp
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

4,714.17 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
- 5,327.03 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.35

❌ Poor

1,202.1 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 27.13 8.53
Gymshark - US
121

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
9

✅ Good

-
obé fitness
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Quell
57

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

PRx Performance
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
34

❌ Poor

8

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
28

⚠️ Fair

8

⚠️ Fair

TRX Training
48

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
0

✅ Good

-
Peloton
54

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

The DB Method
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Rogue
17

✅ Good

8

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Ergatta
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Tonal
17

✅ Good

15

❌ Poor

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 184 223 54.79%
Gymshark - US
58

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

52.07%
Vanquish Fitness
0

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

100.0%
obé fitness
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Quell
36

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

36.84%
PRx Performance
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
8

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

76.47%
Wahoo Fitness
24

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

14.29%
TRX Training
18

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

62.5%
WIT Fitness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Peloton
5

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

90.74%
The DB Method
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

50.0%
Rogue
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

11.76%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Ergatta
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Tonal
7

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

58.82%

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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