Footwear - February - 2024


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.

Footwear

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Footwear

industry, for the month of

May

2024

. 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 Performance: KURU Footwear leads in email marketing performance, with 27 emails sent and a high engagement score of 64.96%, indicating effective targeting and content relevance. JustFab closely follows with 30 emails sent and a good email scoring of 57.57%, suggesting consistent engagement efforts despite a fair promotion rate. Wolf & Shepherd demonstrates solid email marketing performance, sending 17 emails with a high email scoring of 68.47%, showcasing effective audience engagement strategies and content resonance.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: KURU Footwear excels in email deliverability with a neutral spam score and good email size performance, ensuring effective content management and consistent inbox placement. SKECHERS maintains good email deliverability with a significantly lower spam score and good email size performance, indicating successful inbox placement consistency and content optimization efforts. Tamara Mellon demonstrates fair email deliverability with a decreased spam score and fair email size performance, suggesting areas for refining content optimization strategies while maintaining inbox placement consistency.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Axel Arigato emerges as the leader in advertising impact and diversity with 147 impactful ads, showcasing both volume and variety in content, effectively positioning itself in the competitive footwear brands market. SKECHERS closely follows with 120 impactful ads, reflecting robust advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively engaging with its target audience. Neemans maintains solid advertising impact with 115 impactful ads, exhibiting good diversity in new images and videos, indicating effective content variation and innovation strategies.

Emails sent on average

11.9

Ads published on average

41

Average Spam Score

3.3

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 11.87 57.39%
KURU Footwear
27

✅ Good

55.56%

⚠️ Fair

Tamara Mellon
9

❌ Poor

70.56%

✅ Good

Bates Footwear
25

✅ Good

45.08%

❌ Poor

SKECHERS
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Wolf & Shepherd
16

✅ Good

76.25%

✅ Good

Indestructible Shoes
14

✅ Good

46.0%

❌ Poor

Gianvito Rossi
4

❌ Poor

53.25%

⚠️ Fair

Thesus Outdoors
5

❌ Poor

50.0%

❌ Poor

Taft
8

❌ Poor

54.88%

⚠️ Fair

Thursday Boot Company
3

❌ Poor

44.0%

❌ Poor

JustFab
34

✅ Good

62.97%

⚠️ Fair

Axel Arigato
10

❌ Poor

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

Birkenstock - UK
8

❌ Poor

55.13%

⚠️ Fair

Vessi
11

⚠️ Fair

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Neemans
4

❌ Poor

73.25%

✅ 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 -3.26 2,412.99 kb
KURU Footwear
🟧 0.08

❌ Poor

1,022.37 kb

✅ Good

Tamara Mellon
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

1,277.18 kb

✅ Good

Bates Footwear
✅ -3.1

⚠️ Fair

2,996.58 kb

❌ Poor

SKECHERS
- -
Wolf & Shepherd
✅ -4.08

✅ Good

848.46 kb

✅ Good

Indestructible Shoes
🟧 0.4

❌ Poor

2,152.84 kb

✅ Good

Gianvito Rossi
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

4,569.76 kb

❌ Poor

Thesus Outdoors
✅ -1.84

❌ Poor

6,912.18 kb

❌ Poor

Taft
✅ -3.22

⚠️ Fair

4,382.29 kb

❌ Poor

Thursday Boot Company
✅ -1.07

❌ Poor

4,900.0 kb

❌ Poor

JustFab
✅ -8.39

✅ Good

1,910.63 kb

✅ Good

Axel Arigato
✅ -2.8

❌ Poor

3,661.21 kb

❌ Poor

Birkenstock - UK
✅ -3.13

⚠️ Fair

3,227.06 kb

❌ Poor

Vessi
✅ -1.95

❌ Poor

3,535.63 kb

❌ Poor

Neemans
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

726.01 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 40.6 18.2
KURU Footwear
36

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

Tamara Mellon
0

✅ Good

-
Bates Footwear
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

SKECHERS
84

❌ Poor

17

⚠️ Fair

Wolf & Shepherd
75

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

Indestructible Shoes
16

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Gianvito Rossi
59

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Thesus Outdoors
14

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Taft
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Thursday Boot Company
74

❌ Poor

42

❌ Poor

JustFab
34

✅ Good

18

⚠️ Fair

Axel Arigato
61

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Birkenstock - UK
0

✅ Good

-
Vessi
90

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Neemans
57

❌ Poor

8

✅ 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 492 117 19.21%
KURU Footwear
22

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

38.89%
Tamara Mellon
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Bates Footwear
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
SKECHERS
74

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

11.9%
Wolf & Shepherd
69

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

8.0%
Indestructible Shoes
5

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

68.75%
Gianvito Rossi
47

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

20.34%
Thesus Outdoors
13

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

7.14%
Taft
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Thursday Boot Company
61

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

17.57%
JustFab
30

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

11.76%
Axel Arigato
56

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

8.2%
Birkenstock - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Vessi
62

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

31.11%
Neemans
44

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

22.81%

Ads detected over time

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