Haircare - August - 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

August

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In August, Luvme Hair took the lead with a total of 47 emails, followed by Color Wow with 33 emails.

In terms of advertising, Luvme Hair outpaced Prose this month, crafting an impressive 142 new ads, while Prose secured the second position with 101 new ads. Luvme Hair notably employs the highest number of ad copies (134).

Regarding ad strategy, both Luvme Hair and Prose emphasize videos this month. Luvme Hair showcases 121 videos in contrast to 21 images, while Prose employs 93 videos and only 8 images.

Emails sent on average

14.9

Ads published on average

48

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 14.94 53.8%
Sienna Naturals
13

❌ Poor

53.69%

⚠️ Fair

Bread
5

❌ Poor

49.6%

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
29

✅ Good

65.66%

✅ Good

Keeps
6

❌ Poor

51.5%

⚠️ Fair

amika
10

❌ Poor

47.8%

❌ Poor

Color Wow
33

✅ Good

47.91%

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
22

✅ Good

45.86%

❌ Poor

Overtone
10

❌ Poor

49.8%

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
6

❌ Poor

40.0%

❌ Poor

Good Dye Young
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Prose
22

✅ Good

56.09%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
10

❌ Poor

51.2%

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
17

✅ Good

59.82%

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Luvme Hair
47

✅ Good

54.34%

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
9

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

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 -1.78 2,721.88 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -2.57

✅ Good

3,987.25 kb

❌ Poor

Bread
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

4,946.91 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -2.33

✅ Good

1,423.06 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

1,830.97 kb

✅ Good

amika
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

6,768.32 kb

❌ Poor

Color Wow
✅ -0.51

❌ Poor

4,346.23 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
✅ -0.98

❌ Poor

3,313.52 kb

❌ Poor

Overtone
✅ -3.89

✅ Good

2,859.21 kb

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
✅ -0.58

❌ Poor

1,642.52 kb

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
- -
Prose
✅ -2.32

✅ Good

2,207.99 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -1.5

❌ Poor

2,965.5 kb

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
✅ -1.95

⚠️ Fair

1,656.68 kb

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
- -
Luvme Hair
✅ -2.11

✅ Good

1,818.98 kb

✅ Good

Nutrafol
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

818.32 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 47.75 29.94
Sienna Naturals
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Bread
33

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Crown Affair
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Keeps
21

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

amika
24

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

Color Wow
41

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Overtone
59

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

eSalon
67

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Prose
101

❌ Poor

70

❌ Poor

Champo
85

❌ Poor

47

❌ Poor

Briogeo
70

❌ Poor

18

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
142

❌ Poor

128

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
76

❌ Poor

42

❌ 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 119 619 81.02%
Sienna Naturals
1

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

92.86%
Bread
4

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

84.85%
Crown Affair
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Keeps
2

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

90.48%
amika
9

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

62.5%
Color Wow
2

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

95.12%
Function of Beauty
5

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

66.67%
Overtone
8

✅ Good

51

✅ Good

86.44%
eSalon
8

✅ Good

59

✅ Good

88.06%
Good Dye Young
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Prose
8

✅ Good

93

✅ Good

92.08%
Champo
24

✅ Good

61

✅ Good

71.76%
Briogeo
6

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

90.0%
BELLAMI Hair
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

37.5%
Luvme Hair
21

✅ Good

121

✅ Good

85.21%
Nutrafol
20

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

48.68%

Ads detected over time

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