Food & Meals - August - 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

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 August, Home Chef and Hungryroot took the lead in emails, each sending 30 promotional emails.

In terms of advertising, Hello Fresh stood at the forefront with 122 new ads created, boasting the highest count of ad copies (28) among all benchmarked brands. Daily Harvest followed closely with 87 new ads.

As for ad strategy, both Hello Fresh and Daily Harvest have given priority to videos this month. Hello Fresh featured 65 videos compared to 53 images, while Daily Harvest utilized 46 videos versus 39 images.

Emails sent on average

8.9

Ads published on average

44

Average Spam Score

4.7

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 8.93 63.23%
Blue Apron
8

❌ Poor

74.13%

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
10

✅ Good

63.1%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
1

❌ Poor

91.0%

✅ Good

Thistle
4

❌ Poor

53.25%

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
14

✅ Good

69.93%

✅ Good

Sunbasket
9

⚠️ Fair

40.44%

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
6

❌ Poor

53.0%

❌ Poor

Green Chef
4

❌ Poor

74.5%

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
7

❌ Poor

57.86%

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
11

✅ Good

64.82%

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

58.87%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
30

✅ Good

70.07%

✅ 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 -4.67 1,802.62 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -10.73

✅ Good

1,489.61 kb

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
✅ -2.83

❌ Poor

1,422.89 kb

✅ Good

Purple Carrot
✅ -4.9

⚠️ Fair

45.69 kb

✅ Good

Thistle
✅ -3.4

❌ Poor

2,471.09 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -1.91

❌ Poor

837.23 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -0.71

❌ Poor

1,902.58 kb

⚠️ Fair

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -1.83

❌ Poor

2,074.28 kb

❌ Poor

Green Chef
✅ -4.6

⚠️ Fair

531.08 kb

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

2,342.76 kb

❌ Poor

Allplants
✅ -2.46

❌ Poor

1,681.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
✅ -3.27

❌ Poor

1,838.74 kb

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
✅ -9.76

✅ Good

2,400.17 kb

❌ Poor

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 43.93 10.73
Blue Apron
20

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
100

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Purple Carrot
31

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Thistle
78

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
122

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Tovala
22

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Sunbasket
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
63

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Green Chef
41

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
13

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Allplants
18

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Hungryroot
64

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Home Chef
76

❌ Poor

9

✅ 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 314 329 49.92%
Blue Apron
5

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

75.0%
Daily Harvest
52

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

46.0%
Purple Carrot
8

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

74.19%
Thistle
48

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

38.46%
Hello Fresh
53

✅ Good

65

✅ Good

53.28%
Tovala
11

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

50.0%
Sunbasket
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

16.67%
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
38

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

30.16%
Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Green Chef
36

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

12.2%
Splendid Spoon
11

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

15.38%
Allplants
3

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

66.67%
Hungryroot
32

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

50.0%
Home Chef
13

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

82.89%

Ads detected over time

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