Haircare - March - 2024


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

October

2024

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

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Highlights & Summary

Prose, Luvme Hair, and Briogeo lead the haircare industry, excelling in various metrics. Prose boasts the highest organic traffic at 135,071 and an impressive success score of 79.3%, backed by a strong email score of 74.82%. Luvme Hair stands out in email marketing, sending 80 emails with an average spam score close to optimal at -2.03, and a success score of 77.29%. Briogeo also performs well, with a perfect ad score of 100% and a high organic traffic figure of 77,975. Together, these brands demonstrate robust email and ad strategies, making them dominant players.

Next in line are brands like oVertone, Color Wow, and Function of Beauty, which perform well but don't quite reach the top. oVertone has a solid success score of 71.45%, strong email performance, and notable organic traffic at 90,460. Color Wow stands out with a high email score of 78.58% and a decent ad score, contributing to a success score of 67.69%. Function of Beauty, with an 87.37% ad score and a growth score of 62.43%, shows balanced performance across all areas, positioning these brands as competitive, though slightly behind the leaders.

Brands such as Keeps, eSalon, and Crown Affair lag in performance. Keeps has a low email score of 19.88% and a modest success score of 31.12%, indicating weak engagement. eSalon struggles with a low success score of 52.03%, hindered by weak organic traffic of 20,167. Crown Affair also falls behind with a success score of 42.66% and lower email and ad scores. These brands lack the reach and engagement seen in the top performers, signaling they need improvements in their digital marketing strategies to remain competitive.

Emails sent on average

14.4

Ads published on average

40

Average Spam Score

0.0

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 14.38 51.81%
Sienna Naturals
11

❌ Poor

52.91%

⚠️ Fair

Bread
13

⚠️ Fair

55.46%

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
13

⚠️ Fair

56.92%

⚠️ Fair

Keeps
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

amika
12

❌ Poor

36.75%

❌ Poor

Color Wow - US
43

✅ Good

54.81%

⚠️ Fair

Function of Beauty
8

❌ Poor

46.0%

❌ Poor

oVertone
36

✅ Good

47.64%

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
8

❌ Poor

46.63%
Good Dye Young
4

❌ Poor

67.5%

✅ Good

Prose
4

❌ Poor

39.0%

❌ Poor

Champo
11

❌ Poor

53.45%

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
17

✅ Good

52.88%

⚠️ Fair

BELLAMI Hair
15

⚠️ Fair

67.87%

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
35

✅ Good

48.26%

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ 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 0.04 3,029.27 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -0.36

✅ Good

2,796.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Bread
🟧 0.15

❌ Poor

6,060.5 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -0.13

✅ Good

4,079.64 kb

❌ Poor

Keeps
- -
amika
- 6,008.8 kb

❌ Poor

Color Wow - US
✅ -0.29

✅ Good

4,004.12 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
🟧 0.96

❌ Poor

2,288.93 kb

✅ Good

oVertone
🟧 0.01

✅ Good

3,097.0 kb

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
🟧 0.84

❌ Poor

1,122.79 kb

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
✅ -0.5

✅ Good

1,413.87 kb

✅ Good

Prose
🟧 1.03

❌ Poor

1,856.13 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -0.1

✅ Good

3,082.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
🟧 0.81

❌ Poor

1,547.91 kb

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
🟧 0.29

❌ Poor

544.55 kb

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
✅ -0.23

✅ Good

1,989.02 kb

✅ Good

Nutrafol
- -

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 39.75 18.56
Sienna Naturals
0

✅ Good

-
Bread
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Crown Affair
0

✅ Good

-
Keeps
0

✅ Good

-
amika
49

❌ Poor

16

✅ Good

Color Wow - US
41

⚠️ Fair

11

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
11

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

oVertone
24

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

eSalon
96

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Prose
50

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Champo
72

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Briogeo
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
58

❌ Poor

16

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
98

❌ Poor

77

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
119

❌ Poor

55

❌ 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 153 483 75.94%
Sienna Naturals
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Bread
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Crown Affair
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Keeps
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
amika
34

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

30.61%
Color Wow - US
0

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

100.0%
Function of Beauty
1

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

90.91%
oVertone
20

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

16.67%
eSalon
18

✅ Good

78

✅ Good

81.25%
Good Dye Young
0

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

100.0%
Prose
25

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

50.0%
Champo
7

✅ Good

65

✅ Good

90.28%
Briogeo
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
BELLAMI Hair
16

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

72.41%
Luvme Hair
9

✅ Good

89

✅ Good

90.82%
Nutrafol
20

✅ Good

99

✅ Good

83.19%

Ads detected over time

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