Food & Meals - February - 2024


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

2024

. 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 Performance: Green Chef leads the email marketing arena with 14 emails sent, showcasing both quantity and quality, with good email scoring and a high promotion ratio. Allplants closely follows with 13 emails sent, demonstrating good email performance despite a fair email scoring, signaling potential for content improvement. Blue Apron secures a notable position with 13 emails sent, displaying good email performance with a fair email scoring and a balanced promotion ratio.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Blue Apron displays remarkable email deliverability with a significantly positive spam score, indicating effective inbox placement despite moderate email size. Daily Harvest exhibits satisfactory email deliverability with a positive spam score, despite room for improvement in managing email size. Purple Carrot shows mixed results with no available spam score, hinting at potential challenges in email deliverability management.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Hello Fresh stands out in advertising impact and diversity with 247 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and variety in content, highlighting its robust market presence in the food & meals brands industry. Home Chef closely follows with 90 impactful ads, demonstrating a diverse range of ad content and effective engagement strategies. Blue Apron maintains a strong advertising presence with 67 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies despite a fair proportion of video content.

Emails sent on average

5.8

Ads published on average

44

Average Spam Score

3.6

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 5.8 60.23%
Blue Apron
13

✅ Good

62.38%

⚠️ Fair

Daily Harvest
12

✅ Good

63.75%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Thistle
4

❌ Poor

62.5%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
9

✅ Good

67.22%

✅ Good

Sunbasket
6

⚠️ Fair

34.5%

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
7

✅ Good

46.57%

❌ Poor

Green Chef
14

✅ Good

72.29%

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Allplants
13

✅ Good

51.77%

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
9

✅ Good

65.67%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

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 -3.64 2,047.57 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -10.17

✅ Good

1,877.48 kb

⚠️ Fair

Daily Harvest
✅ -2.23

❌ Poor

1,178.16 kb

✅ Good

Purple Carrot
- -
Thistle
✅ -2.28

❌ Poor

4,703.74 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -1.24

❌ Poor

907.77 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -1.27

❌ Poor

5,474.23 kb

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -3.3

⚠️ Fair

2,104.73 kb

⚠️ Fair

Green Chef
- 295.96 kb

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
- -
Allplants
✅ -2.17

❌ Poor

3,846.16 kb

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
✅ -2.88

❌ Poor

1,209.62 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
- -

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 44.47 14.8
Blue Apron
67

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

Daily Harvest
25

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Purple Carrot
53

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Thistle
0

✅ Good

-
Hello Fresh
247

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Tovala
42

⚠️ Fair

10

✅ Good

Sunbasket
19

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
45

⚠️ Fair

17

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Green Chef
23

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Allplants
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Home Chef
90

❌ Poor

34

❌ Poor

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 297 369 55.32%
Blue Apron
38

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

43.28%
Daily Harvest
20

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

20.0%
Purple Carrot
23

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

56.6%
Thistle
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hello Fresh
60

✅ Good

187

✅ Good

75.71%
Tovala
21

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

47.62%
Sunbasket
15

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

21.05%
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
25

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

44.44%
Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

100.0%
Green Chef
20

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

13.04%
Splendid Spoon
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Allplants
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

25.0%
Hungryroot
22

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

26.67%
Home Chef
44

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

51.11%

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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