Garden - 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.

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

December

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 Overview: This month, we experience a notable 34.57% increase in weekly emails, averaging 17.4. Vego Garden and Sunday stand out, sending 31 emails each, showcasing a robust email strategy. Muddy Trowel achieves excellence with a 68.18% email scoring, indicating highly engaging content. However, Rosy and Patch Plants need to refine their approach, displaying poor performance in both email quantity and scoring.

Email Deliverability Insights: Deliverability varies, with Bloomscape demonstrating a concerning 0.07 spam score and poor email size optimization. Vego Garden struggles with a high -5.1 spam score, risking placement issues. Conversely, Artiplanto and Patch Plants exhibit optimal scores, ensuring effective email delivery. Gardyn strikes a balance with a slightly positive spam score but needs improvement in email size optimization, reflecting a fair deliverability performance.

Ads Performance: The benchmark's brands witness a 20.62% rise in weekly ads, averaging 23.4. Vego Garden dominates with 96 new ads, reflecting a robust online presence. Sunday displays an efficient ad strategy with 27 ads and a unique copy approach. However, Muddy Trowel and Bloomscape lag behind with limited ad variety, indicating potential challenges in engaging their audience. Social ads diversity is led by Sunday, with a balanced mix of images and videos, while Artiplanto needs enhancement in this aspect.

Emails sent on average

17.5

Ads published on average

25

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 17.47 51.1%
Patch plants
9

❌ Poor

51.0%

⚠️ Fair

Artiplanto
18

⚠️ Fair

51.28%

⚠️ Fair

Rosy
4

❌ Poor

53.25%

⚠️ Fair

Muddy Trowel
11

❌ Poor

68.18%

✅ Good

Gardyn
31

✅ Good

49.03%

⚠️ Fair

Bloomscape
9

❌ Poor

67.0%

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
19

⚠️ Fair

61.53%

✅ Good

HAMAMA
20

✅ Good

46.75%

⚠️ Fair

Sunday
25

✅ Good

56.88%

✅ Good

Vego Garden
31

✅ Good

33.29%

❌ Poor

Click & Grow - EU
11

❌ Poor

56.91%

✅ Good

Rooted
16

⚠️ Fair

70.63%

✅ Good

Lively Root
22

✅ Good

45.32%

❌ Poor

Shrooly
9

❌ Poor

53.11%

⚠️ Fair

The Sill
27

✅ Good

41.89%

❌ 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 4,413.19 kb
Patch plants
✅ -2.08

✅ Good

3,957.16 kb

✅ Good

Artiplanto
✅ -1.99

✅ Good

1,876.17 kb

✅ Good

Rosy
✅ -2.85

✅ Good

1,333.34 kb

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
✅ -3.91

✅ Good

614.75 kb

✅ Good

Gardyn
✅ -0.47

❌ Poor

4,320.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Bloomscape
🟧 0.07

❌ Poor

1,501.96 kb

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
✅ -2.03

✅ Good

4,076.89 kb

⚠️ Fair

HAMAMA
✅ -0.39

❌ Poor

4,683.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Sunday
✅ -1.61

⚠️ Fair

1,291.18 kb

✅ Good

Vego Garden
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

13,985.11 kb

❌ Poor

Click & Grow - EU
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

4,243.64 kb

⚠️ Fair

Rooted
✅ -3.4

✅ Good

1,971.13 kb

✅ Good

Lively Root
✅ -1.94

✅ Good

4,618.1 kb

⚠️ Fair

Shrooly
✅ -3.99

✅ Good

1,866.04 kb

✅ Good

The Sill
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

3,472.95 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 25.33 11.4
Patch plants
31

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Artiplanto
59

❌ Poor

52

❌ Poor

Rosy
17

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Gardyn
20

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Bloomscape
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
0

✅ Good

-
HAMAMA
11

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Sunday
27

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Vego Garden
96

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Click & Grow - EU
31

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Rooted
0

✅ Good

-
Lively Root
21

✅ Good

12

⚠️ Fair

Shrooly
22

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

The Sill
36

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 248 132 34.74%
Patch plants
15

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

51.61%
Artiplanto
23

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

61.02%
Rosy
10

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

41.18%
Muddy Trowel
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Gardyn
9

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

55.0%
Bloomscape
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Lettuce Grow
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
HAMAMA
5

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

54.55%
Sunday
8

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

70.37%
Vego Garden
92

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

4.17%
Click & Grow - EU
26

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

16.13%
Rooted
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Lively Root
11

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

47.62%
Shrooly
20

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9.09%
The Sill
20

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

44.44%

Ads detected over time

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