Food & Meals - June - 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

June

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 June, Home Chef and Hungryroot emerged as the leaders over again, sending 30 promotional emails each, followed by Purple Carrot with 19 emails.

When it comes to ads, Thistle claimed the top spot with 116 new ads created, while Wegmans secured the second position with 102 new ads during the month of June.

In terms of ad strategy, both Thistle and Wegmans demonstrated a preference for images over videos in their ads. Thistle utilized 65 images and 51 videos, whereas Wegmans utilized 51 images and 43 videos across all their ads in June.

Emails sent on average

10.0

Ads published on average

52

Average Spam Score

4.1

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 10.0 61.48%
Blue Apron
14

✅ Good

72.79%

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
10

⚠️ Fair

58.9%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
18

✅ Good

67.06%

⚠️ Fair

Thistle
3

❌ Poor

50.0%

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
11 63.82%

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
10

⚠️ Fair

44.6%

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
3

❌ Poor

64.0%

⚠️ Fair

Green Chef
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Splendid Spoon
6

❌ Poor

55.5%

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
15

✅ Good

59.2%

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

61.1%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
30

✅ Good

62.1%

⚠️ 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 -4.05 1,422.51 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -9.99

✅ Good

930.61 kb

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
✅ -1.48

❌ Poor

1,914.16 kb

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
✅ -1.28

❌ Poor

487.74 kb

✅ Good

Thistle
✅ -3.43

❌ Poor

2,282.95 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -3.15

❌ Poor

834.8 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

2,033.99 kb

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -1.37

❌ Poor

809.29 kb

✅ Good

Green Chef
- -
Splendid Spoon
✅ -0.72

❌ Poor

1,542.31 kb

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
✅ -1.43

❌ Poor

2,034.96 kb

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
✅ -1.33

❌ Poor

908.18 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
✅ -9.64

✅ Good

2,220.12 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 52.0 12.13
Blue Apron
17

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
55

⚠️ Fair

14

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
21

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Thistle
116

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
100

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Tovala
67

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
102

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Pasta Evangelists
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Green Chef
45

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
43

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Allplants
38

✅ Good

21

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
79

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Home Chef
93

❌ Poor

5

✅ 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 418 342 43.85%
Blue Apron
11

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

35.29%
Daily Harvest
15

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

65.45%
Purple Carrot
13

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

38.1%
Thistle
65

✅ Good

51

✅ Good

43.97%
Hello Fresh
68

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

32.0%
Tovala
33

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

49.25%
Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
51

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

42.16%
Pasta Evangelists
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
Green Chef
29

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

24.44%
Splendid Spoon
32

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

25.58%
Allplants
16

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

52.63%
Hungryroot
52

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

34.18%
Home Chef
30

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

67.74%

Ads detected over time

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