Haircare - September - 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

September

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: Luvme Hair leads the haircare industry in email marketing, sending the highest number of emails with a good email scoring. Color Wow and Crown Affair also perform well in email marketing. Prose, however, sends a high percentage of promotional emails.

Email Deliverability Summary: Sienna Naturals and Bread excel in email deliverability with good spam scores and optimized email sizes. Crown Affair also performs well in email deliverability. Brands like amika and Color Wow need to improve their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Function of Beauty dominates in advertising, with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. eSalon and Luvme Hair also perform well in advertising. Brands like BELLAMI Hair and amika lag behind in their advertising efforts.

In summary, Luvme Hair is a leader in email marketing within the haircare industry. Sienna Naturals and Bread excel in email deliverability. Function of Beauty dominates in advertising. However, some brands like amika and Color Wow need to enhance their marketing strategies.

Emails sent on average

15.0

Ads published on average

41

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 15.0 53.82%
Sienna Naturals
12

❌ Poor

51.25%

⚠️ Fair

Bread
6

❌ Poor

60.67%

✅ Good

Crown Affair
26

✅ Good

61.73%

✅ Good

Keeps
5

❌ Poor

47.4%

❌ Poor

amika
11

❌ Poor

38.82%

❌ Poor

Color Wow
31

✅ Good

48.29%

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
20

✅ Good

45.2%

❌ Poor

Overtone
7

❌ Poor

55.71%

⚠️ Fair

eSalon
6

❌ Poor

45.33%

❌ Poor

Good Dye Young
2

❌ Poor

72.0%

✅ Good

Prose
22

✅ Good

57.77%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
9

❌ Poor

47.11%

❌ Poor

Briogeo
19

✅ Good

64.95%

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Luvme Hair
51

✅ Good

51.02%

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
13

❌ Poor

71.54%

✅ 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 -1.81 2,834.85 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -2.05

✅ Good

3,450.57 kb

❌ Poor

Bread
✅ -2.28

✅ Good

3,399.05 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -1.92

⚠️ Fair

1,885.18 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
🟧 0.5

❌ Poor

3,326.23 kb

❌ Poor

amika
✅ -2.17

✅ Good

4,541.12 kb

❌ Poor

Color Wow
✅ -0.68

❌ Poor

4,752.16 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
✅ -1.47

❌ Poor

2,784.6 kb

⚠️ Fair

Overtone
✅ -4.39

✅ Good

5,766.2 kb

❌ Poor

eSalon
✅ -0.88

❌ Poor

1,588.53 kb

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
✅ -1.95

⚠️ Fair

784.56 kb

✅ Good

Prose
✅ -2.0

✅ Good

1,838.63 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

3,175.31 kb

❌ Poor

Briogeo
✅ -2.69

✅ Good

1,753.54 kb

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
- -
Luvme Hair
✅ -1.67

⚠️ Fair

2,738.68 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
✅ -3.56

✅ Good

497.95 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 40.81 21.25
Sienna Naturals
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Bread
12

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Crown Affair
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Keeps
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

amika
0

✅ Good

-
Color Wow
20

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
111

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Overtone
37

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

eSalon
99

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
28

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Prose
90

❌ Poor

22

⚠️ Fair

Champo
46

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Briogeo
46

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
90

❌ Poor

90

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
59

❌ Poor

39

❌ 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 100 543 83.15%
Sienna Naturals
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Bread
3

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

75.0%
Crown Affair
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Keeps
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
amika
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Color Wow
0

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

100.0%
Function of Beauty
7

✅ Good

104

✅ Good

93.69%
Overtone
10

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

72.97%
eSalon
15

✅ Good

84

✅ Good

84.85%
Good Dye Young
6

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

75.0%
Prose
20

✅ Good

70

✅ Good

77.78%
Champo
7

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

84.78%
Briogeo
0

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

100.0%
BELLAMI Hair
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Luvme Hair
10

✅ Good

79

✅ Good

87.78%
Nutrafol
21

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

52.54%

Ads detected over time

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