Footwear - January - 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

February

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: JustFab leads the footwear industry with 32 emails sent, showcasing good email scoring performance but needing improvements in promotional content diversity. KURU Footwear closely follows with 30 emails, demonstrating excellent email scoring performance and balanced promotional content. Bates Footwear emerges as a strong performer with 24 emails sent, requiring enhancements in email scoring and promotional content diversity to remain competitive. Wolf & Shepherd presents itself with 17 emails, signaling good email scoring performance and a balanced promotional approach. Indestructible Shoes and Vessi face challenges in email marketing, necessitating strategic adjustments to enhance performance and competitiveness.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: KURU Footwear excels in email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management, positioning itself as a notable player in the footwear industry. Tamara Mellon demonstrates strong email deliverability with a positive spam score but requires improvements in email size management to optimize deliverability and competitiveness. Bates Footwear showcases potential in email deliverability with a positive spam score and effective email size management, distinguishing itself from other brands in the industry. JustFab, Wolf & Shepherd, and Indestructible Shoes face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to enhance email deliverability and competitiveness.

Advertising Performance: Axel Arigato leads in advertising with 152 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence. SKECHERS closely follows with 119 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. Neemans demonstrates potential in advertising with 115 impactful ads, requiring enhancements in diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the footwear industry. Taft and KURU Footwear face challenges in advertising volume and diversity, necessitating strategic adjustments to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Emails sent on average

12.2

Ads published on average

64

Average Spam Score

3.2

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 12.2 57.91%
KURU Footwear
30

✅ Good

65.43%

✅ Good

Tamara Mellon
9

❌ Poor

70.33%

✅ Good

Bates Footwear
24

✅ Good

46.58%

❌ Poor

SKECHERS
10

❌ Poor

67.5%

✅ Good

Wolf & Shepherd
17

✅ Good

67.59%

✅ Good

Indestructible Shoes
13

⚠️ Fair

52.46%

⚠️ Fair

Gianvito Rossi
3

❌ Poor

49.0%

❌ Poor

Thesus Outdoors
2

❌ Poor

53.5%

⚠️ Fair

Taft
8

❌ Poor

59.38%

⚠️ Fair

Thursday Boot Company
5

❌ Poor

39.8%

❌ Poor

JustFab
32

✅ Good

57.41%

⚠️ Fair

Axel Arigato
6

❌ Poor

63.67%

⚠️ Fair

Birkenstock - UK
4

❌ Poor

43.75%

❌ Poor

Vessi
11

⚠️ Fair

48.82%

❌ Poor

Neemans
9

❌ Poor

57.67%

⚠️ 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 -3.15 2,288.07 kb
KURU Footwear
✅ -0.45

❌ Poor

851.23 kb

✅ Good

Tamara Mellon
✅ -2.74

❌ Poor

1,638.6 kb

✅ Good

Bates Footwear
✅ -3.64

✅ Good

3,561.33 kb

❌ Poor

SKECHERS
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

527.55 kb

✅ Good

Wolf & Shepherd
✅ -2.36

❌ Poor

805.91 kb

✅ Good

Indestructible Shoes
✅ -0.52

❌ Poor

1,615.1 kb

✅ Good

Gianvito Rossi
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

11,382.32 kb

❌ Poor

Thesus Outdoors
✅ -2.55

❌ Poor

13,135.27 kb

❌ Poor

Taft
✅ -3.22

⚠️ Fair

3,493.05 kb

❌ Poor

Thursday Boot Company
🟧 0.6

❌ Poor

7,174.28 kb

❌ Poor

JustFab
✅ -8.97

✅ Good

2,187.76 kb

⚠️ Fair

Axel Arigato
✅ -2.63

❌ Poor

1,855.72 kb

✅ Good

Birkenstock - UK
✅ -1.95

❌ Poor

3,143.16 kb

❌ Poor

Vessi
✅ -0.44

❌ Poor

2,341.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Neemans
✅ -1.66

❌ Poor

1,032.05 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 64.2 27.0
KURU Footwear
38

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Tamara Mellon
9

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Bates Footwear
0

✅ Good

-
SKECHERS
119

❌ Poor

23

✅ Good

Wolf & Shepherd
100

❌ Poor

27

⚠️ Fair

Indestructible Shoes
42

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

Gianvito Rossi
19

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Thesus Outdoors
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Taft
48

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Thursday Boot Company
101

❌ Poor

52

❌ Poor

JustFab
80

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Axel Arigato
152

❌ Poor

53

❌ Poor

Birkenstock - UK
24

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Vessi
109

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Neemans
115

❌ Poor

12

✅ 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 663 300 31.15%
KURU Footwear
31

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

18.42%
Tamara Mellon
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bates Footwear
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
SKECHERS
102

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

14.29%
Wolf & Shepherd
77

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

23.0%
Indestructible Shoes
10

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

76.19%
Gianvito Rossi
0

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

100.0%
Thesus Outdoors
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Taft
48

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Thursday Boot Company
88

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

12.87%
JustFab
66

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

17.5%
Axel Arigato
71

✅ Good

81

✅ Good

53.29%
Birkenstock - UK
20

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

16.67%
Vessi
51

✅ Good

58

✅ Good

53.21%
Neemans
83

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

27.83%

Ads detected over time

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