Food & Meals - May - 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

May

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 May, Home Chef and Hungryroot continued to dominate in terms of the number of emails sent, each sending 30 promotional emails. Allplants followed closely with 21 emails.

When it comes to advertising, Thistle took the lead by creating 84 new ads, closely followed by Splendid Spoon with 77 new ads.

Both Thistle and Splendid Spoon prioritize the use of images in their advertising strategies. Thistle utilized 57 images compared to 20 videos, while Splendid Spoon employed 56 images and 28 videos to convey their message effectively.

Emails sent on average

10.7

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

4.0

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 10.73 61.86%
Blue Apron
14

✅ Good

74.43%

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
8

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
8

❌ Poor

70.75%

✅ Good

Thistle
12

✅ Good

57.67%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Fresh
8

❌ Poor

59.38%

⚠️ Fair

Tovala
3

❌ Poor

58.67%

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
14

✅ Good

62.43%

⚠️ Fair

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
3

❌ Poor

40.0%

❌ Poor

Green Chef
2

❌ Poor

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

Splendid Spoon
8

❌ Poor

64.38%

⚠️ Fair

Allplants
21

✅ Good

52.43%

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

66.1%

⚠️ Fair

Home Chef
30

✅ Good

60.7%

⚠️ 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 -3.99 1,658.0 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -5.99

✅ Good

965.85 kb

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
✅ -4.48

✅ Good

2,652.65 kb

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
✅ -1.76

❌ Poor

630.29 kb

✅ Good

Thistle
✅ -2.48

❌ Poor

2,036.21 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
✅ -0.73

❌ Poor

1,549.31 kb

⚠️ Fair

Tovala
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

767.18 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -3.17

❌ Poor

910.78 kb

✅ Good

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -0.53

❌ Poor

1,370.52 kb

✅ Good

Green Chef
✅ -4.55

✅ Good

1,221.19 kb

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
✅ -3.7

⚠️ Fair

2,269.4 kb

❌ Poor

Allplants
✅ -0.81

❌ Poor

2,170.4 kb

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

955.05 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
✅ -9.99

✅ Good

2,544.42 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 37.0 12.4
Blue Apron
0

✅ Good

-
Daily Harvest
73

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
41

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Thistle
84

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
60

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Tovala
30

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
30

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Pasta Evangelists
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Green Chef
48

❌ Poor

18

❌ Poor

Splendid Spoon
77

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Allplants
36

⚠️ Fair

25

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
15

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Home Chef
56

❌ 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 315 223 40.18%
Blue Apron
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Daily Harvest
30

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

45.21%
Purple Carrot
33

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

19.51%
Thistle
56

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

33.33%
Hello Fresh
33

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

43.33%
Tovala
17

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

43.33%
Sunbasket
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
10

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

50.0%
Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Green Chef
36

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

25.0%
Splendid Spoon
57

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

25.97%
Allplants
11

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

66.67%
Hungryroot
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

20.0%
Home Chef
20

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

64.29%

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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