Food & Meals - November - 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

November

2023

. 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 Summary: Hungryroot dominates the food and meals industry in email marketing, both in volume and quality, closely followed by Daily Harvest. Allplants also performs well, although improvements are needed in reducing promotional content. Lagging behind are Green Chef and Purple Carrot, facing challenges in both email volume and scoring.

Email Deliverability Summary: Home Chef excels in email deliverability, showcasing optimized email sizes and excellent spam scores. Thistle and Blue Apron follow suit, maintaining strong deliverability. Brands like Daily Harvest and Sunbasket need to refine their strategies, facing challenges in both spam scores and email size.

Ads Performance Summary: Thistle leads in advertising, consistently publishing a high number of ads with diverse content. Wegmans and Daily Harvest also perform well in this area. On the flip side, brands like Sunbasket and Purple Carrot need a significant boost in their advertising efforts to stay competitive.

Emails sent on average

6.9

Ads published on average

36

Average Spam Score

3.7

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 6.87 61.32%
Blue Apron
11

✅ Good

64.09%

⚠️ Fair

Daily Harvest
18

✅ Good

55.33%

⚠️ Fair

Purple Carrot
6

❌ Poor

47.33%

❌ Poor

Thistle
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hello Fresh
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tovala
7

⚠️ Fair

67.14%

⚠️ Fair

Sunbasket
7

⚠️ Fair

40.57%

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wegmans
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Pasta Evangelists
1

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Green Chef
6

❌ Poor

61.67%

⚠️ Fair

Splendid Spoon
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Allplants
14

✅ Good

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
30

✅ Good

71.37%

✅ Good

Home Chef
3

❌ Poor

68.33%

✅ Good

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 -3.7 1,747.04 kb
Blue Apron
✅ -10.17

✅ Good

1,584.72 kb

⚠️ Fair

Daily Harvest
✅ -2.49

❌ Poor

2,667.75 kb

❌ Poor

Purple Carrot
✅ -2.4

❌ Poor

4,672.52 kb

❌ Poor

Thistle
- -
Hello Fresh
- -
Tovala
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

804.97 kb

✅ Good

Sunbasket
✅ -1.74

❌ Poor

2,906.12 kb

❌ Poor

PlateJoy
- -
Wegmans
- -
Pasta Evangelists
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,037.62 kb

✅ Good

Green Chef
- 1,131.72 kb

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
- -
Allplants
✅ -2.32

❌ Poor

1,908.03 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hungryroot
✅ -2.77

❌ Poor

793.97 kb

✅ Good

Home Chef
✅ -12.6

✅ Good

707.24 kb

✅ Good

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 35.87 11.6
Blue Apron
35

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Daily Harvest
76

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Purple Carrot
0

✅ Good

-
Thistle
85

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Hello Fresh
59

❌ Poor

11

⚠️ Fair

Tovala
42

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Sunbasket
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
81

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

-
Green Chef
25

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Splendid Spoon
0

✅ Good

-
Allplants
25

✅ Good

21

❌ Poor

Hungryroot
46

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Home Chef
60

❌ Poor

22

❌ 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 309 227 42.19%
Blue Apron
17

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

51.43%
Daily Harvest
59

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

22.37%
Purple Carrot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Thistle
46

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

45.88%
Hello Fresh
48

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

18.64%
Tovala
10

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

71.43%
Sunbasket
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
PlateJoy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Wegmans
45

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

44.44%
Pasta Evangelists
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Green Chef
17

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

32.0%
Splendid Spoon
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Allplants
12

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

52.0%
Hungryroot
19

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

58.7%
Home Chef
32

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

46.67%

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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