Food & Meals - March - 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.

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Highlights & Summary

During March, Hungryroot outdid other brands by sending the highest number of emails, with a total of 31 promotional emails.

Hello Fresh emerged as the top brand, creating 60 new ads followed closely by Thistle and Tovala with 56 and 50 new ads, respectively. All three brands used a similar strategy in their ads, prioritizing images over videos. For instance, Hello Fresh used 51 new images versus just 9 new videos. Similarly, Thistle used 35 new images versus 21 new videos while Tovala used 33 new images versus 17 new videos in their ads.

Emails sent on average

8.1

Ads published on average

22

Average Spam Score

2.9

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 8.07 59.54%
Blue Apron
11

✅ Good

75.18%

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
10

✅ Good

53.6%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Thistle
9

✅ Good

56.33%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
10

✅ Good

63.5%

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
8

⚠️ Fair

56.75%

⚠️ Fair

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
7

❌ Poor

43.29%

❌ Poor

Green Chef
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Splendid Spoon
8

⚠️ Fair

58.38%

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
15

✅ Good

53.93%

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

61.33%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
13

✅ Good

63.54%

⚠️ 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 -2.89 1,546.4 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -5.94

✅ Good

634.9 kb

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

3,359.34 kb

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
- -
Thistle
✅ -3.99

✅ Good

1,802.18 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -0.59

❌ Poor

602.98 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

809.14 kb

✅ Good

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -1.73

❌ Poor

1,833.64 kb

❌ Poor

Green Chef
- -
Splendid Spoon
✅ -2.28

❌ Poor

1,672.39 kb

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

2,536.91 kb

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
✅ -1.45

❌ Poor

999.56 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
✅ -9.52

✅ Good

1,812.25 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 21.8 7.2
Blue Apron
0

✅ Good

-
Daily Harvest
42

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Thistle
56

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
60

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Tovala
50

❌ Poor

8

❌ Poor

Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
25

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

-
Green Chef
15

✅ Good

7

⚠️ Fair

Splendid Spoon
25

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Allplants
12

✅ Good

9

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
0

✅ Good

-
Home Chef
30

❌ Poor

3

✅ 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 211 111 33.94%
Blue Apron
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Daily Harvest
26

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

28.57%
Purple Carrot
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%
Thistle
35

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

37.5%
Hello Fresh
51

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

15.0%
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
5

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

58.33%
Hungryroot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Home Chef
5

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

83.33%

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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