Haircare - October - 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

October

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: In the haircare industry, Crown Affair shines as the leader with excellent email practices. They effectively balance promotions and email scoring. Luvme Hair and Color Wow follow closely with good email performance, although Color Wow should focus more on promotions. Briogeo ranks well, focusing on email scoring and promotions. Function of Beauty, Sienna Naturals, Champo, and Nutrafol need to enhance their email strategies across both email scoring and promotions. Prose and Keeps lag behind in email practices, needing a complete overhaul in their email marketing strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: Sienna Naturals leads in email deliverability, achieving optimal spam scores and email sizes. Crown Affair maintains excellent deliverability practices, with slight improvements needed in email size. Keeps achieves a good spam score and email size but should improve spam scores. Briogeo and Nutrafol demonstrate strong email deliverability practices, focusing on spam scores and email size optimization. Function of Beauty and Champo need to work on their email deliverability, particularly spam scores. The other brands, Color Wow, Luvme Hair, Prose, and yet again, Sienna Naturals, require comprehensive enhancements in email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Prose takes the lead in the haircare advertising arena, with high ad velocity and a diverse range of unique ad copies. Champo and Luvme Hair follow closely, demonstrating good ad velocity and various unique ad copies. Briogeo maintains fair ad velocity and unique ad copies but has room for improvement. Color Wow, Function of Beauty, and Nutrafol need to enhance their advertising strategies, focusing on both ad velocity and unique ad copies. Keeps and Sienna Naturals lag behind in ad performance, requiring significant improvements to remain competitive in the haircare industry.

Emails sent on average

17.3

Ads published on average

42

Average Spam Score

2.5

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 17.3 58.95%
Sienna Naturals
12

❌ Poor

52.83%

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
30

✅ Good

67.23%

✅ Good

Keeps
4

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Briogeo
18

⚠️ Fair

68.89%

✅ Good

Nutrafol
9

❌ Poor

71.89%

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
12

❌ Poor

56.75%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
11

❌ Poor

49.36%

❌ Poor

Color Wow
33

✅ Good

54.58%

⚠️ Fair

Luvme Hair
38

✅ Good

51.32%

❌ Poor

Prose
6

❌ Poor

67.67%

✅ 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 -2.47 2,339.55 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -3.23

✅ Good

3,031.44 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -2.69

⚠️ Fair

1,956.58 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
✅ -3.73

✅ Good

3,869.25 kb

❌ Poor

Briogeo
✅ -3.11

✅ Good

1,270.59 kb

✅ Good

Nutrafol
✅ -3.99

✅ Good

615.37 kb

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
✅ -2.11

❌ Poor

1,695.56 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -1.75

❌ Poor

2,369.27 kb

⚠️ Fair

Color Wow
✅ -1.41

❌ Poor

3,548.92 kb

❌ Poor

Luvme Hair
✅ -2.34

⚠️ Fair

2,542.76 kb

⚠️ Fair

Prose
✅ -3.6

✅ Good

938.92 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 41.6 30.0
Sienna Naturals
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Crown Affair
0

✅ Good

-
Keeps
13

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Briogeo
38

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Nutrafol
13

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
31

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

Champo
90

❌ Poor

33

⚠️ Fair

Color Wow
35

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
79

❌ Poor

79

❌ Poor

Prose
111

❌ Poor

84

❌ 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 55 356 85.58%
Sienna Naturals
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Crown Affair
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Keeps
2

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%
Briogeo
2

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

94.74%
Nutrafol
2

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

53.85%
Function of Beauty
7

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

77.42%
Champo
19

✅ Good

71

✅ Good

78.89%
Color Wow
0

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

100.0%
Luvme Hair
11

✅ Good

68

✅ Good

86.08%
Prose
12

✅ Good

98

✅ Good

88.29%

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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