Haircare - 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.

Haircare

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

Haircare

industry, for the month of

April

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

Comparing March and April's statistics, we can see that Color Wow was the top brand in email marketing, sending 58 emails in March and 48 in April. Meanwhile, Crown Affair sent 26 emails in March and 28 in April. When it comes to ads, Champo produced the highest number of new ads in March with 33, followed by Prose and eSalon with 30 each. However, in April, Hairstory took the lead with 60 new ads, followed by eSalon with 49 and Color Wow with 39. In terms of ad strategy during April, Hairstory, eSalon, and Color Wow all showed a preference for using images, with Hairstory using 34 new images vs. 26 new videos, eSalon using 35 new images vs. 14 new videos, and Color Wow using 34 new images vs. 5 new videos.

Emails sent on average

12.3

Ads published on average

24

Average Spam Score

1.7

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 12.33 54.44%
Sienna Naturals
13

⚠️ Fair

60.31%

✅ Good

Bread
3

❌ Poor

54.0%

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
28

✅ Good

67.46%

✅ Good

Keeps
13

⚠️ Fair

53.46%

⚠️ Fair

amika
6

❌ Poor

34.67%

❌ Poor

Color Wow
49

✅ Good

49.04%

⚠️ Fair

Function of Beauty
15

✅ Good

42.73%

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
14

✅ Good

69.64%

✅ Good

Overtone
10

❌ Poor

50.5%

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
6

❌ Poor

50.33%

⚠️ Fair

Hairstory Studio
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Good Dye Young
1

❌ Poor

63.0%

✅ Good

Luxy Hair
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Prose
16

✅ Good

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
11

❌ Poor

55.64%

⚠️ 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 -1.66 2,917.27 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -3.56

✅ Good

3,379.3 kb

❌ Poor

Bread
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

3,096.85 kb

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
✅ -2.45

✅ Good

1,178.67 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
✅ -1.78

⚠️ Fair

2,012.28 kb

✅ Good

amika
✅ -0.88

❌ Poor

4,370.87 kb

❌ Poor

Color Wow
✅ -1.52

⚠️ Fair

4,966.04 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
✅ -1.23

❌ Poor

4,117.7 kb

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

1,053.23 kb

✅ Good

Overtone
✅ -0.55

❌ Poor

1,600.23 kb

✅ Good

eSalon
✅ -1.8

⚠️ Fair

974.24 kb

✅ Good

Hairstory Studio
- -
Good Dye Young
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,099.93 kb

✅ Good

Luxy Hair
- -
Prose
✅ -0.31

❌ Poor

2,061.38 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -2.04

✅ Good

2,300.8 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 23.93 11.53
Sienna Naturals
12

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Bread
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Crown Affair
22

⚠️ Fair

14

❌ Poor

Keeps
27

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

amika
11

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Color Wow
39

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
8

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Nutrafol
0

✅ Good

-
Overtone
28

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

eSalon
49

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Hairstory Studio
60

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
36

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Luxy Hair
13

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Prose
30

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Champo
17

✅ Good

15

❌ Poor

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 112 241 67.13%
Sienna Naturals
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

41.67%
Bread
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
Crown Affair
9

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

54.55%
Keeps
3

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

81.48%
amika
11

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Color Wow
5

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

87.18%
Function of Beauty
1

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

87.5%
Nutrafol
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Overtone
8

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

71.43%
eSalon
14

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

71.43%
Hairstory Studio
26

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

56.67%
Good Dye Young
14

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

52.78%
Luxy Hair
0

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

100.0%
Prose
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
Champo
11

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

35.29%

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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