Haircare - November - 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

November

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: Color Wow leads the haircare industry in email marketing, sending an impressive 14.69 emails on average. Luvme Hair and Briogeo closely follow, demonstrating good performance with scores around 55-61%. Overtone, despite sending fewer emails, maintains a solid email scoring, but BELLAMI Hair, Prose, and others lag in both frequency and effectiveness. The competition is intense, with brands vying for attention through varied email strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: Sienna Naturals and Bread outshine others in email deliverability with excellent spam scores of -2.16 and -3.85, respectively. Keeps demonstrates a unique performance with a near-zero spam score. In contrast, amika struggles with high email size, affecting deliverability. Brands like Overtone and Prose need to optimize email size for better inbox placement.

Ads Performance Summary: Luvme Hair dominates in advertising, presenting a whopping 120 unique copies, showcasing versatility. Overtone, Champo, and Briogeo also perform well in ad velocity and diversity. In contrast, BELLAMI Hair and Good Dye Young need to diversify their advertising strategies, relying on a limited number of copies. The industry emphasizes the importance of vibrant and dynamic advertising to capture diverse consumer interests.

Emails sent on average

14.7

Ads published on average

52

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 14.69 55.82%
Sienna Naturals
12

❌ Poor

56.58%

⚠️ Fair

Bread
13

❌ Poor

58.85%

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
13

❌ Poor

66.31%

✅ Good

Keeps
1

❌ Poor

68.0%

✅ Good

amika
7

❌ Poor

29.86%

❌ Poor

Color Wow
46

✅ Good

54.13%

⚠️ Fair

Function of Beauty
11

❌ Poor

56.45%

⚠️ Fair

Overtone
25

✅ Good

46.96%

❌ Poor

eSalon
4

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

Good Dye Young
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Prose
15

⚠️ Fair

56.93%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
11

❌ Poor

50.09%

❌ Poor

Briogeo
26

✅ Good

61.31%

⚠️ Fair

BELLAMI Hair
16

⚠️ Fair

61.31%

⚠️ Fair

Luvme Hair
26

✅ Good

53.81%

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
9

❌ Poor

75.11%

✅ 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 -1.82 3,081.96 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -2.16

✅ Good

3,310.14 kb

⚠️ Fair

Bread
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

5,767.42 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

1,804.17 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

75.65 kb

✅ Good

amika
- 8,072.1 kb

❌ Poor

Color Wow
✅ -0.87

❌ Poor

4,544.9 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
✅ -1.56

❌ Poor

2,806.1 kb

⚠️ Fair

Overtone
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

3,479.62 kb

❌ Poor

eSalon
✅ -1.8

⚠️ Fair

1,426.88 kb

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
- -
Prose
✅ -2.65

✅ Good

4,917.85 kb

❌ Poor

Champo
✅ -2.73

✅ Good

3,031.64 kb

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
✅ -1.27

❌ Poor

1,085.14 kb

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
- 371.69 kb

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
✅ -2.18

✅ Good

1,994.11 kb

✅ Good

Nutrafol
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

419.33 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 51.81 30.38
Sienna Naturals
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Bread
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Crown Affair
17

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

Keeps
21

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

amika
53

⚠️ Fair

19

✅ Good

Color Wow
32

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
50

⚠️ Fair

22

✅ Good

Overtone
93

❌ Poor

14

✅ Good

eSalon
79

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
34

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

Prose
60

❌ Poor

39

❌ Poor

Champo
88

❌ Poor

24

✅ Good

Briogeo
83

❌ Poor

14

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
36

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
120

❌ Poor

120

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
43

✅ Good

23

✅ 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 196 633 76.36%
Sienna Naturals
1

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

90.0%
Bread
2

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

80.0%
Crown Affair
8

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

52.94%
Keeps
3

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

85.71%
amika
12

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

77.36%
Color Wow
3

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

90.63%
Function of Beauty
9

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

82.0%
Overtone
17

✅ Good

76

✅ Good

81.72%
eSalon
16

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

79.75%
Good Dye Young
8

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

76.47%
Prose
12

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

80.0%
Champo
17

✅ Good

71

✅ Good

80.68%
Briogeo
41

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

50.6%
BELLAMI Hair
23

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

36.11%
Luvme Hair
15

✅ Good

105

✅ Good

87.5%
Nutrafol
9

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

79.07%

Ads detected over time

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