Fitness - January - 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

March

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 in email marketing with 22 emails sent, showcasing good email scoring but needs improvement in promotional diversity. TRX Training follows closely with 16 emails, demonstrating excellent email scoring and effective promotions. Vanquish Fitness presents a strong email marketing strategy with 14 emails but requires enhancement in email scoring and promotional variety. Ergatta and Peloton both demonstrate potential with 12 emails each but need improvements in email scoring and promotional diversity to solidify their positions as top performers.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Gymshark exhibits improved email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management, positioning itself as a top performer. Vanquish Fitness also showcases positive email deliverability with a good spam score but requires strategic adjustments in email size management to enhance competitiveness. Quell leads in email deliverability with a good spam score and effective email size management, distinguishing itself as a leader in the industry. PRx Performance demonstrates promising email deliverability with a positive spam score but requires enhancements in email size management to optimize competitiveness.

Advertising Performance: Gymshark leads in advertising impact with 236 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence in the fitness industry. Peloton closely follows with 73 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and a high proportion of video content. Vanquish Fitness exhibits solid advertising impact with 70 impactful ads, emphasizing a balance between volume and diversity in ad content. Rogue presents promising advertising strategies with 42 impactful ads, emphasizing a balance between volume and diversity in ad content. Wahoo Fitness and Tonal demonstrate potential in advertising impact but require enhancements in diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness.

Emails sent on average

7.0

Ads published on average

42

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 7.0 48.26%
Gymshark
6

❌ Poor

46.83%

⚠️ Fair

Vanquish Fitness
14

✅ Good

43.57%

⚠️ Fair

obé fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Quell
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

PRx Performance
8

✅ Good

51.38%

⚠️ Fair

Echelon
9

✅ Good

37.67%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
16

✅ Good

58.19%

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Peloton
12

✅ Good

46.83%

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
1

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Rogue
22

✅ Good

51.95%

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
3

❌ Poor

50.67%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
12

✅ Good

36.17%

❌ Poor

Tonal
1

❌ Poor

79.0%

✅ 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 -1.53 2,947.84 kb
Gymshark
✅ -0.27

❌ Poor

3,311.54 kb

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -1.77

✅ Good

4,415.78 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
- -
Quell
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

4,261.73 kb

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

2,796.3 kb

⚠️ Fair

Echelon
🟧 0.03

❌ Poor

3,153.04 kb

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
🟧 0.29

❌ Poor

1,163.16 kb

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
- -
Peloton
✅ -10.1

✅ Good

3,140.61 kb

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,007.67 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -2.83

✅ Good

2,287.89 kb

✅ Good

FightCamp
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

5,289.42 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
- 4,008.42 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

215.18 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 42.27 15.73
Gymshark
236

❌ Poor

33

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
70

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

obé fitness
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Quell
15

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

PRx Performance
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Echelon
33

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
35

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

TRX Training
19

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
0

✅ Good

-
Peloton
73

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

The DB Method
18

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Rogue
42

⚠️ Fair

29

❌ Poor

FightCamp
25

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Ergatta
14

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Tonal
33

✅ Good

20

❌ 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 305 329 51.89%
Gymshark
94

✅ Good

142

✅ Good

60.17%
Vanquish Fitness
56

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

20.0%
obé fitness
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

33.33%
Quell
4

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

73.33%
PRx Performance
9

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

40.0%
Echelon
33

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Wahoo Fitness
24

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

31.43%
TRX Training
5

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

73.68%
WIT Fitness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Peloton
24

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

67.12%
The DB Method
2

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

88.89%
Rogue
25

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

40.48%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

100.0%
Ergatta
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

50.0%
Tonal
18

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

45.45%

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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