Garden - July - 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

August

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 July, Vego Garden maintained its dominance in emails (23) and notably, 95% of these emails are promotional. Artiplanto took the second spot with 20 emails.

Shifting focus to advertising efforts, Vego Garden continued to lead with the creation of 70 new ads. Artiplanto followed closely in the second place, contributing 65 new ads with the highest number of ad copies (33) this month.

In terms of ad approach, both Vego Garden and Artiplanto exhibit a preference for images over videos. Vego Garden utilized 45 images compared to 25 videos, while Artiplanto employs 50 images and 15 videos in its campaigns.

Emails sent on average

10.7

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 51.14%
Patch plants
5

❌ Poor

42.2%

❌ Poor

Artiplanto
20

✅ Good

43.85%

❌ Poor

Rosy
2

❌ Poor

54.5%

⚠️ Fair

Muddy Trowel
9

❌ Poor

62.33%

✅ Good

Gardyn
11

⚠️ Fair

59.09%

✅ Good

Bloomscape
17

✅ Good

70.41%

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
14

✅ Good

63.5%

✅ Good

HAMAMA
8

❌ Poor

48.88%

⚠️ Fair

Sunday
13

✅ Good

57.69%

✅ Good

Vego Garden
23

✅ Good

33.39%

❌ Poor

Click & Grow - EU
8

❌ Poor

71.25%

✅ Good

Rooted
3

❌ Poor

67.0%

✅ Good

Lively Root
17

✅ Good

35.41%

❌ Poor

Shrooly
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

The Sill
11

⚠️ Fair

41.64%

❌ 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 -1.8 2,925.83 kb
Patch plants
✅ -1.3

❌ Poor

3,156.03 kb

⚠️ Fair

Artiplanto
✅ -2.06

✅ Good

2,132.91 kb

✅ Good

Rosy
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

1,519.56 kb

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
✅ -3.13

✅ Good

1,142.57 kb

✅ Good

Gardyn
✅ -2.38

✅ Good

4,365.93 kb

❌ Poor

Bloomscape
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

1,489.5 kb

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
✅ -2.15

✅ Good

2,651.8 kb

⚠️ Fair

HAMAMA
✅ -1.54

❌ Poor

4,405.9 kb

❌ Poor

Sunday
✅ -2.17

✅ Good

1,628.55 kb

✅ Good

Vego Garden
✅ -0.44

❌ Poor

5,577.37 kb

❌ Poor

Click & Grow - EU
✅ -2.29

✅ Good

431.34 kb

✅ Good

Rooted
✅ -2.33

✅ Good

1,613.44 kb

✅ Good

Lively Root
✅ -0.21

❌ Poor

3,130.76 kb

⚠️ Fair

Shrooly
- -
The Sill
✅ -1.4

❌ Poor

3,874.08 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 24.67 11.2
Patch plants
11

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Artiplanto
65

❌ Poor

24

❌ Poor

Rosy
0

✅ Good

-
Muddy Trowel
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Gardyn
18

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Bloomscape
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

HAMAMA
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Sunday
34

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Vego Garden
70

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Click & Grow - EU
43

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Rooted
0

✅ Good

-
Lively Root
45

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Shrooly
53

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

The Sill
8

✅ Good

3

✅ 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 210 152 41.08%
Patch plants
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

72.73%
Artiplanto
50

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

23.08%
Rosy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Muddy Trowel
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Gardyn
5

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

72.22%
Bloomscape
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

16.67%
Lettuce Grow
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

44.44%
HAMAMA
1

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Sunday
14

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

58.82%
Vego Garden
45

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

35.71%
Click & Grow - EU
27

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

34.88%
Rooted
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Lively Root
42

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

6.67%
Shrooly
13

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

75.47%
The Sill
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

62.5%

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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