Food & Meals - July - 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

July

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 July, Home Chef and Hungryroot tied for the lead with 30 promotional emails each, while Allphants followed with 17 emails.

As for ads, Thistle maintains the top spot with 121 new ads while Hello Fresh takes the second position with 88 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Hello Fresh and Thistle both favored images over videos. Hello Fresh used 60 images vs. 26 videos, while Thistle utilized 63 images and 58 videos.

Emails sent on average

10.5

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

4.5

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 10.53 64.1%
Blue Apron
12

✅ Good

74.67%

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
12

✅ Good

62.83%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
16

✅ Good

70.63%

✅ Good

Thistle
1

❌ Poor

67.0%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
10

⚠️ Fair

67.5%

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
13

✅ Good

43.23%

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
8

❌ Poor

59.13%

⚠️ Fair

Green Chef
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Splendid Spoon
9

❌ Poor

73.89%

✅ Good

Allplants
17

✅ Good

60.0%

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

64.47%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
30

✅ Good

65.07%

⚠️ 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 -4.51 1,537.79 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -8.73

✅ Good

1,003.86 kb

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
✅ -3.02

❌ Poor

1,742.37 kb

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
✅ -3.64

❌ Poor

355.19 kb

✅ Good

Thistle
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

58.28 kb

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -3.0

❌ Poor

1,342.86 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -1.52

❌ Poor

1,841.51 kb

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -1.56

❌ Poor

1,028.6 kb

✅ Good

Green Chef
- -
Splendid Spoon
✅ -2.73

❌ Poor

1,086.12 kb

✅ Good

Allplants
✅ -2.96

❌ Poor

2,285.94 kb

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
✅ -2.43

❌ Poor

1,221.92 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
✅ -9.93

✅ Good

2,446.16 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 37.4 9.2
Blue Apron
10

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
52

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Purple Carrot
33

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Thistle
121

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
88

❌ Poor

9

⚠️ Fair

Tovala
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Sunbasket
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
50

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Pasta Evangelists
8

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Green Chef
18

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
34

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Allplants
28

✅ Good

19

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
46

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Home Chef
58

❌ Poor

7

✅ 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 299 250 44.56%
Blue Apron
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

50.0%
Daily Harvest
28

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

40.38%
Purple Carrot
17

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

48.48%
Thistle
63

✅ Good

58

✅ Good

47.93%
Hello Fresh
60

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

29.55%
Tovala
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

33.33%
Sunbasket
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
28

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

30.0%
Pasta Evangelists
2

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

75.0%
Green Chef
2

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

88.89%
Splendid Spoon
22

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

35.29%
Allplants
5

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

82.14%
Hungryroot
32

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

30.43%
Home Chef
23

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

60.34%

Ads detected over time

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