Haircare - February - 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

March

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 February, Color Wow took the lead in email marketing, having sent a total of 58 emails, followed by Crown Affair with 26 emails. Meanwhile, Champo produced the highest number of new ads, with a total of 33, while Prose and eSalon each created 30 new ads. Notably, Prose exclusively used videos for their new launches, producing 30 new videos during the month. eSalon and Champo followed closely behind with 26 and 23 new videos respectively.

Emails sent on average

11.8

Ads published on average

11

Average Spam Score

1.4

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 11.8 53.29%
Sienna Naturals
14

✅ Good

56.64%

⚠️ Fair

Bread
4

❌ Poor

53.5%

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
26

✅ Good

63.5%

✅ Good

Keeps
6

❌ Poor

62.0%

✅ Good

amika
3

❌ Poor

51.67%

⚠️ Fair

Color Wow
58

✅ Good

48.88%

⚠️ Fair

Function of Beauty
14

✅ Good

45.07%

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
10

❌ Poor

76.3%

✅ Good

Overtone
12

⚠️ Fair

43.25%

❌ Poor

eSalon
6

❌ Poor

46.17%

❌ Poor

Hairstory Studio
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Good Dye Young
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Luxy Hair
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Prose
14

✅ Good

50.71%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
10

❌ Poor

51.2%

⚠️ 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 -1.42 3,077.99 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -3.45

✅ Good

3,837.58 kb

❌ Poor

Bread
✅ -1.93

✅ Good

4,876.58 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

1,602.18 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
✅ -0.27

❌ Poor

2,035.75 kb

✅ Good

amika
✅ -1.77

✅ Good

3,169.14 kb

⚠️ Fair

Color Wow
✅ -1.04

❌ Poor

4,539.53 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
✅ -1.76

✅ Good

3,212.41 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
✅ -1.65

✅ Good

551.84 kb

✅ Good

Overtone
✅ -0.72

❌ Poor

2,954.18 kb

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

1,234.92 kb

✅ Good

Hairstory Studio
- -
Good Dye Young
- -
Luxy Hair
- -
Prose
✅ -1.34

⚠️ Fair

2,283.06 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

1,958.62 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 11.4 6.53
Sienna Naturals
22

❌ Poor

7

⚠️ Fair

Bread
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Crown Affair
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Keeps
0

✅ Good

-
amika
23

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Color Wow
10

✅ Good

7

⚠️ Fair

Function of Beauty
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Nutrafol
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Overtone
0

✅ Good

-
eSalon
30

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Hairstory Studio
0

✅ Good

-
Good Dye Young
0

✅ Good

-
Luxy Hair
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Prose
30

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Champo
33

❌ Poor

21

❌ 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 49 122 71.35%
Sienna Naturals
16

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

27.27%
Bread
4

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

42.86%
Crown Affair
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Keeps
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
amika
11

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

52.17%
Color Wow
1

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

90.0%
Function of Beauty
1

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

85.71%
Nutrafol
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Overtone
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
eSalon
4

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

86.67%
Hairstory Studio
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Good Dye Young
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Luxy Hair
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Prose
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
Champo
10

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

69.7%

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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