Garden - April - 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.

Garden

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

Garden

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.

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Highlights & Summary

During the month of April, Bloomscape emerged as the leader with 22 emails sent, followed by Vego Garden with a total of 20 promotional emails. Sunday claimed the top spot in ads with 60 new ads created, followed by Vego Garden with 59 new ads and the highest number of ad copies used in its new ads, with a total of 42 unique ad copies.

In terms of ad strategy, Sunday is highly focused on videos, creating 56 videos compared to only 4 images. Vego Garden also used more videos with 38 videos and 21 images in its new ads.

Emails sent on average

12.2

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

1.6

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 50.54%
Patch plants
5

❌ Poor

36.2%

❌ Poor

Artiplanto
19

✅ Good

44.05%

❌ Poor

Rosy
2

❌ Poor

51.0%

⚠️ Fair

Muddy Trowel
10

❌ Poor

59.2%

✅ Good

Gardyn
14

✅ Good

66.07%

✅ Good

Bloomscape
22

✅ Good

57.73%

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
9

❌ Poor

49.89%

⚠️ Fair

HAMAMA
19

✅ Good

55.26%

⚠️ Fair

Sunday
17

✅ Good

54.06%

⚠️ Fair

Vego Garden
20

✅ Good

30.95%

❌ Poor

Click & Grow
9

❌ Poor

66.78%

✅ Good

Rooted
6

❌ Poor

59.33%

✅ Good

Lively Root
18

✅ Good

44.56%

❌ Poor

Shrooly
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

The Sill
13

⚠️ Fair

42.0%

❌ Poor

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 -1.62 2,830.57 kb
Patch plants
✅ -0.3

❌ Poor

4,591.17 kb

❌ Poor

Artiplanto
✅ -1.58

⚠️ Fair

2,016.12 kb

✅ Good

Rosy
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

2,211.07 kb

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

1,060.67 kb

✅ Good

Gardyn
✅ -3.13

✅ Good

2,155.71 kb

✅ Good

Bloomscape
✅ -1.64

⚠️ Fair

1,131.97 kb

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

5,027.03 kb

❌ Poor

HAMAMA
✅ -1.57

⚠️ Fair

3,915.37 kb

❌ Poor

Sunday
✅ -2.67

✅ Good

2,371.25 kb

✅ Good

Vego Garden
✅ -1.19

❌ Poor

3,028.93 kb

⚠️ Fair

Click & Grow
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

1,598.79 kb

✅ Good

Rooted
✅ -1.02

❌ Poor

4,133.7 kb

❌ Poor

Lively Root
✅ -1.64

⚠️ Fair

4,735.18 kb

❌ Poor

Shrooly
- -
The Sill
✅ -0.59

❌ Poor

3,205.43 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 18.6 10.33
Patch plants
24

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Artiplanto
34

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

Rosy
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Gardyn
21

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Bloomscape
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

HAMAMA
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Sunday
60

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Vego Garden
59

❌ Poor

38

❌ Poor

Click & Grow
22

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Rooted
17

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Lively Root
0

✅ Good

-
Shrooly
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

The Sill
2

✅ Good

2

✅ 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 110 158 56.63%
Patch plants
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

29.17%
Artiplanto
27

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

17.65%
Rosy
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
Muddy Trowel
4

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

66.67%
Gardyn
13

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

38.1%
Bloomscape
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Lettuce Grow
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
HAMAMA
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Sunday
4

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

93.33%
Vego Garden
21

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

64.41%
Click & Grow
9

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

50.0%
Rooted
14

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

11.76%
Lively Root
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Shrooly
0

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

100.0%
The Sill
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%

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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