Fitness - May - 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

June

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

During May, Peloton and TRX Training jointly lead in email communication, with 17 emails sent by each brand. Peloton stands out as the top advertiser, creating 164 ads and utilizing 104 unique ad copies. Gymshark follows closely with 120 new ads. In terms of ad strategy, Peloton strikes a balance between images and videos, featuring 77 videos and 72 images. Meanwhile, Gymshark focuses primarily on images, incorporating 69 images and 4 videos in their ad campaigns.

Emails sent on average

9.5

Ads published on average

55

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 9.53 53.41%
Gymshark
7

❌ Poor

59.71%

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
10

⚠️ Fair

56.6%

⚠️ Fair

obé fitness
2

❌ Poor

33.0%

❌ Poor

Quell
4

❌ Poor

43.5%

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
15

✅ Good

63.93%

✅ Good

Echelon
15

✅ Good

58.53%

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
17

✅ Good

47.94%

❌ Poor

WIT Fitness
12

✅ Good

59.5%

✅ Good

Peloton
17

✅ Good

48.82%

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
11

✅ Good

57.18%

⚠️ Fair

Rogue
10

⚠️ Fair

45.8%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
5

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
9

⚠️ Fair

36.22%

❌ Poor

Tonal
9

⚠️ Fair

57.22%

⚠️ 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 -1.97 2,920.71 kb
Gymshark
✅ -7.24

✅ Good

4,302.08 kb

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
✅ -3.7

✅ Good

6,498.96 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
🟧 0.1

❌ Poor

1,914.92 kb

✅ Good

Quell
🟧 1.38

❌ Poor

7,356.82 kb

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

1,789.68 kb

✅ Good

Echelon
✅ -1.61

❌ Poor

2,417.67 kb

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -0.51

❌ Poor

2,407.3 kb

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
✅ -2.3

✅ Good

2,747.75 kb

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
✅ -4.08

✅ Good

3,147.63 kb

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
✅ -2.74

✅ Good

1,926.4 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,933.41 kb

✅ Good

FightCamp
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

2,690.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
🟧 1.48

❌ Poor

4,063.47 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.82

❌ Poor

915.26 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 54.8 26.6
Gymshark
120

❌ Poor

38

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
55

⚠️ Fair

12

✅ Good

obé fitness
19

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Quell
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

PRx Performance
54

⚠️ Fair

50

❌ Poor

Echelon
20

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
17

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

TRX Training
55

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
76

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Peloton
164

❌ Poor

78

❌ Poor

The DB Method
87

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Rogue
21

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

FightCamp
49

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Ergatta
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Tonal
76

❌ Poor

2

✅ 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 326 419 50.97%
Gymshark
69

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

3.33%
Vanquish Fitness
19

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

65.45%
obé fitness
11

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

21.05%
Quell
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
PRx Performance
7

✅ Good

44

✅ Good

81.48%
Echelon
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

35.0%
Wahoo Fitness
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

11.76%
TRX Training
33

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

36.36%
WIT Fitness
13

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

82.89%
Peloton
72

✅ Good

77

✅ Good

46.95%
The DB Method
9

✅ Good

78

✅ Good

89.66%
Rogue
14

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9.52%
FightCamp
2

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

93.88%
Ergatta
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
Tonal
45

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

40.79%

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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