Fitness - November - 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

December

2023

. 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 Overview: The Fitness industry witnessed a 22.02% uptick in weekly emails, averaging 11.47. Gymshark spearheads, sending 18 emails with commendable scoring. Vanquish Fitness closely follows, but with poor email scoring, indicating an area for improvement. PRx Performance stands as a contender but grapples with a high spam score, impacting email deliverability.

Email Deliverability Insights: Despite Gymshark's email prowess, its large email size poses deliverability challenges. Vanquish Fitness, while prolific in ads, faces deliverability hurdles. In contrast, Peloton emerges as a winner, not only excelling in email deliverability but also maintaining a robust social media presence.

Ads Performance: Ads surged by 46.47%, averaging 46.87 weekly. Peloton takes the lead with 111 ads, showcasing diversity. Gymshark shines not only in emails but also in ads, with 66 detected. Vanquish Fitness, though prolific, faces challenges in ad diversity. Socially, TRX Training stands out with a high video proportion, ensuring engaging content.

Emails sent on average

11.5

Ads published on average

47

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 11.07 50.28%
Gymshark
18

✅ Good

51.83%

⚠️ Fair

Vanquish Fitness
17

✅ Good

38.29%

❌ Poor

obé fitness
3

❌ Poor

44.33%

❌ Poor

Quell
6

❌ Poor

48.83%

⚠️ Fair

PRx Performance
13

✅ Good

44.15%

❌ Poor

Echelon
16

✅ Good

42.31%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

TRX Training
20

✅ Good

64.7%

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Peloton
18

✅ Good

53.61%

⚠️ Fair

The DB Method
11

⚠️ Fair

68.36%

✅ Good

Rogue
17

✅ Good

45.41%

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
12

⚠️ Fair

40.25%

❌ Poor

Tonal
15

✅ Good

54.67%

⚠️ 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 -1.62 3,965.86 kb
Gymshark
✅ -0.96

❌ Poor

8,768.13 kb

❌ Poor

Vanquish Fitness
🟧 1.1

❌ Poor

6,431.02 kb

❌ Poor

obé fitness
✅ -1.2

❌ Poor

4,974.67 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -1.98

✅ Good

10,712.55 kb

❌ Poor

PRx Performance
✅ -1.75

⚠️ Fair

3,162.01 kb

✅ Good

Echelon
🟧 0.05

❌ Poor

3,649.28 kb

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
- -
TRX Training
✅ -0.27

❌ Poor

966.99 kb

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
- -
Peloton
✅ -7.18

✅ Good

3,390.67 kb

✅ Good

The DB Method
✅ -2.86

✅ Good

768.7 kb

✅ Good

Rogue
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

4,229.51 kb

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
- -
Ergatta
- 3,733.15 kb

⚠️ Fair

Tonal
🟧 0.55

❌ Poor

463.9 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 43.6 19.67
Gymshark
52

❌ Poor

17

✅ Good

Vanquish Fitness
113

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

obé fitness
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Quell
44

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

PRx Performance
34

✅ Good

28

❌ Poor

Echelon
41

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
35

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

TRX Training
27

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

WIT Fitness
29

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Peloton
127

❌ Poor

44

❌ Poor

The DB Method
19

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Rogue
29

✅ Good

19

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
31

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Ergatta
21

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Tonal
48

❌ Poor

13

✅ 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 304 350 53.52%
Gymshark
13

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

75.0%
Vanquish Fitness
74

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

34.51%
obé fitness
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Quell
17

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

61.36%
PRx Performance
12

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

64.71%
Echelon
37

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

9.76%
Wahoo Fitness
25

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

28.57%
TRX Training
5

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

81.48%
WIT Fitness
15

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

48.28%
Peloton
31

✅ Good

96

✅ Good

75.59%
The DB Method
4

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

78.95%
Rogue
25

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

13.79%
FightCamp
6

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

80.65%
Ergatta
10

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

52.38%
Tonal
30

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

37.5%

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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