Food & Meals - April - 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.

Food & Meals

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Food & Meals

industry, for the month of

April

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In April, Hungryroot took the lead in the number of emails sent with 30 emails, followed by Home Chef with 18 emails. Home Chef and Hello Fresh were tied in launching the highest number of new ads, with 60 new ads each. Thistle followed with 56 new ads. Allphants used the highest number of ad copies in its 40 new ads launched during this period.

Home Chef emphasized on using videos more, with 55 new videos and only 5 new images in their new ads. Meanwhile, Hello Fresh and Thistle both focused more on images in their new ads, with Hello Fresh using 52 new images versus only 8 new videos, and Thistle using 35 new images versus 21 new videos.

Emails sent on average

8.5

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

3.5

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 8.47 62.21%
Blue Apron
11

✅ Good

73.27%

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
9

⚠️ Fair

53.44%

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Thistle
12

✅ Good

64.08%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
10

✅ Good

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
9

⚠️ Fair

61.78%

⚠️ Fair

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
6

❌ Poor

45.0%

❌ Poor

Green Chef
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Splendid Spoon
8

⚠️ Fair

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
14

✅ Good

59.14%

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

63.67%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
18

✅ Good

66.72%

⚠️ 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 -3.5 1,401.26 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -6.25

✅ Good

709.44 kb

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

3,139.54 kb

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
- -
Thistle
✅ -3.74

⚠️ Fair

1,569.99 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -0.59

❌ Poor

797.66 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -3.49

⚠️ Fair

1,202.8 kb

✅ Good

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -2.32

❌ Poor

1,673.21 kb

❌ Poor

Green Chef
- -
Splendid Spoon
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

1,648.39 kb

❌ Poor

Allplants
✅ -2.15

❌ Poor

1,963.21 kb

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
✅ -1.92

❌ Poor

990.41 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
✅ -9.26

✅ Good

1,324.14 kb

⚠️ Fair

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 26.87 8.73
Blue Apron
0

✅ Good

-
Daily Harvest
42

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
0

✅ Good

-
Thistle
56

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
60

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Tovala
50

❌ Poor

8

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
25

⚠️ Fair

14

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

-
Green Chef
15

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
25

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Allplants
40

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
30

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Home Chef
60

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 235 163 40.45%
Blue Apron
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Daily Harvest
26

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

28.57%
Purple Carrot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Thistle
35

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

37.5%
Hello Fresh
52

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

13.33%
Tovala
33

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

34.0%
Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
24

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

4.0%
Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Green Chef
11

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

20.0%
Splendid Spoon
13

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

48.0%
Allplants
13

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

67.5%
Hungryroot
23

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

23.33%
Home Chef
5

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

91.67%

Ads detected over time

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