Garden - September - 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

October

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 Summary: Sunday stands out in the garden industry for email marketing, showing impressive engagement with a high email scoring and no promotions, signaling a refined strategy. Vego Garden, The Sill, and Artiplanto also perform well in email marketing, demonstrating good email scoring, although promotions need attention. Lively Root and Rooted have potential but need improvements in promotions. Gardyn, HAMAMA, Lettuce Grow, Shrooly, Click & Grow, Muddy Trowel, Rosy, Bloomscape, and Patch plants face challenges, requiring enhancements in both email scoring and promotions to compete effectively.

Email Deliverability Summary: Patch plants leads in email deliverability, excelling in both spam score and email size optimization. Artiplanto, Bloomscape, Vego Garden, and Click & Grow also demonstrate good email deliverability. Sunday and Lettuce Grow need attention in email size optimization but maintain reasonable spam scores.

Ads Performance Summary: Gardyn takes the lead in ads performance, showing a high number of new ads, good ad velocity, and diverse copies. Lively Root, Sunday, Shrooly, and Vego Garden also perform well with a balanced approach to ad velocity and unique copies. Click & Grow, Patch plants, and Artiplanto show promise but need enhancements in both ad velocity and diversity. The Sill, HAMAMA, Rosy, Lettuce Grow, Rooted, Bloomscape, Muddy Trowel, and The Sill face challenges, requiring improvements in both ad velocity and diversity

Emails sent on average

11.9

Ads published on average

18

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 11.93 52.64%
Patch plants
5

❌ Poor

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Artiplanto
18

✅ Good

43.72%

❌ Poor

Rosy
6

❌ Poor

59.83%

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
7

❌ Poor

68.71%

✅ Good

Gardyn
12

⚠️ Fair

66.58%

✅ Good

Bloomscape
5

❌ Poor

71.8%

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
10

❌ Poor

58.5%

✅ Good

HAMAMA
10

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Sunday
17

✅ Good

59.76%

✅ Good

Vego Garden
24

✅ Good

35.17%

❌ Poor

Click & Grow - EU
8

❌ Poor

61.63%

✅ Good

Rooted
13

⚠️ Fair

62.23%

✅ Good

Lively Root
16

✅ Good

50.75%

⚠️ Fair

Shrooly
9

❌ Poor

55.56%

⚠️ Fair

The Sill
19

✅ Good

40.21%

❌ 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 -2.08 4,176.21 kb
Patch plants
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

2,704.93 kb

✅ Good

Artiplanto
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

2,308.33 kb

✅ Good

Rosy
✅ -2.08

⚠️ Fair

2,783.09 kb

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
✅ -1.43

❌ Poor

769.83 kb

✅ Good

Gardyn
✅ -3.93

✅ Good

3,477.42 kb

✅ Good

Bloomscape
✅ -2.9

✅ Good

1,095.27 kb

✅ Good

Lettuce Grow
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

3,176.14 kb

✅ Good

HAMAMA
✅ -2.12

⚠️ Fair

4,673.89 kb

❌ Poor

Sunday
✅ -2.14

⚠️ Fair

1,689.96 kb

✅ Good

Vego Garden
🟧 0.55

❌ Poor

14,751.49 kb

❌ Poor

Click & Grow - EU
✅ -3.13

✅ Good

1,915.78 kb

✅ Good

Rooted
✅ -1.55

❌ Poor

1,713.96 kb

✅ Good

Lively Root
✅ -2.12

⚠️ Fair

2,698.87 kb

✅ Good

Shrooly
✅ -3.72

✅ Good

2,391.26 kb

✅ Good

The Sill
🟧 0.18

❌ Poor

3,136.73 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 17.53 9.53
Patch plants
23

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Artiplanto
20

❌ Poor

18

❌ Poor

Rosy
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Muddy Trowel
0

✅ Good

-
Gardyn
39

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Bloomscape
0

✅ Good

-
Lettuce Grow
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

HAMAMA
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Sunday
32

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Vego Garden
30

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Click & Grow - EU
23

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Rooted
0

✅ Good

-
Lively Root
34

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Shrooly
31

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

The Sill
11

✅ Good

5

✅ 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 147 106 40.3%
Patch plants
5

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

56.52%
Artiplanto
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

30.0%
Rosy
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Muddy Trowel
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Gardyn
13

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

66.67%
Bloomscape
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Lettuce Grow
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
HAMAMA
7

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

20.0%
Sunday
10

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

68.75%
Vego Garden
25

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

16.67%
Click & Grow - EU
11

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

43.48%
Rooted
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Lively Root
32

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Shrooly
17

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

45.16%
The Sill
6

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

45.45%

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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