Fitness - July - 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

August

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 July, WIT Fitness leads in emails (15), followed by PRx Performance with a total of 14 emails sent.

In terms of advertising, Peloton generated 136 new ads with the highest number of ad copies (58). The DB Method secures the second position with 86 new ads.

Concerning ad strategy, both Peloton and The DB Method give precedence to videos over images. Peloton employed 99 videos vs. 37 images, while The DB Method utilizes 72 videos vs. 14 images.

Emails sent on average

6.6

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

2.0

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 6.6 54.44%
Gymshark
10

✅ Good

60.4%

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
10

✅ Good

53.7%

⚠️ Fair

obé fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Quell
7

⚠️ Fair

48.0%

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
14

✅ Good

53.21%

⚠️ Fair

Echelon
4

❌ Poor

37.75%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
10

✅ Good

58.8%

⚠️ Fair

WIT Fitness
15

✅ Good

60.53%

✅ Good

Peloton
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

The DB Method
8

✅ Good

62.5%

✅ Good

Rogue
12

✅ Good

42.58%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
2

❌ Poor

34.0%

❌ Poor

Tonal
7

⚠️ Fair

63.14%

✅ 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 -1.95 3,324.12 kb
Gymshark
✅ -4.15

✅ Good

3,709.7 kb

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -0.27

❌ Poor

3,670.05 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
- -
Quell
✅ -3.56

✅ Good

11,500.16 kb

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
✅ -1.41

❌ Poor

2,651.31 kb

✅ Good

Echelon
🟧 1.25

❌ Poor

3,822.02 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -1.78

⚠️ Fair

1,664.84 kb

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
✅ -1.75

⚠️ Fair

2,804.39 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
- -
The DB Method
✅ -1.95

⚠️ Fair

1,076.41 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -2.37

✅ Good

3,446.16 kb

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
- -
Ergatta
🟧 1.2

❌ Poor

4,116.48 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

781.43 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 36.93 16.67
Gymshark
50

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
57

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

obé fitness
0

✅ Good

-
Quell
29

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

PRx Performance
48

❌ Poor

46

❌ Poor

Echelon
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

TRX Training
10

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
48

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Peloton
136

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

The DB Method
86

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Rogue
20

✅ Good

20

❌ Poor

FightCamp
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Ergatta
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Tonal
33

✅ Good

7

✅ 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 181 349 63.0%
Gymshark
31

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

16.0%
Vanquish Fitness
31

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

43.86%
obé fitness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Quell
6

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

79.31%
PRx Performance
13

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

56.25%
Echelon
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Wahoo Fitness
11

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

26.67%
TRX Training
0

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

100.0%
WIT Fitness
3

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

93.75%
Peloton
37

✅ Good

99

✅ Good

72.79%
The DB Method
14

✅ Good

72

✅ Good

83.72%
Rogue
5

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

65.0%
FightCamp
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

83.33%
Tonal
20

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

39.39%

Ads detected over time

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