Kitchen - 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.

Kitchen

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Kitchen

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.

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Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Summary: Sur La Table dominates the kitchen industry in email marketing, demonstrating an impressive number of emails sent with a good email scoring, although promotions need attention. Traeger Grills and Our Place also perform well, showcasing good email scoring, but with challenges in promotions. Coolina, Made In, Fable, and Hedley & Bennett exhibit potential but need improvements, particularly in promotions to enhance their overall email marketing strategy. MEATER, Material Kitchen, Caraway, Anyday, Nutr, Almond Cow, Gozney, and KitchenAid lag behind, requiring substantial improvements in both email scoring and promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Made In excels in email deliverability with a low spam score and optimal email size. Our Place, Anyday, Caraway, and Gozney also perform well, maintaining a reasonable balance between spam score and email size. Traeger Grills, Sur La Table, and MEATER face challenges, with needed improvements in both spam score and email size. Almond Cow, KitchenAid, Hedley & Bennett, Coolina, Fable, and Nutr lag behind, requiring significant enhancements in both aspects to improve deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: MEATER leads in ads performance, showing a high number of new ads, good ad velocity, and diverse copies. Caraway, Coolina, Made In, Hedley & Bennett, and Our Place also demonstrate strong ads performance with a balanced approach to ad velocity and unique copies. Anyday, Gozney, and Sur La Table show potential but need enhancements in both ad velocity and diversity. Traeger Grills, Fable, and Material Kitchen face challenges, requiring improvements in both ad velocity and diversity.

Emails sent on average

18.7

Ads published on average

47

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 18.67 51.13%
Our Place
26

✅ Good

47.81%

⚠️ Fair

Made In
18

⚠️ Fair

69.83%

✅ Good

Anyday
9

❌ Poor

61.44%

✅ Good

Caraway
9

❌ Poor

50.67%

⚠️ Fair

KitchenAid
4

❌ Poor

52.25%

⚠️ Fair

Hedley & Bennett
14

❌ Poor

57.86%

✅ Good

Gozney
7

❌ Poor

52.43%

⚠️ Fair

Coolina USA
20

⚠️ Fair

65.5%

✅ Good

Fable
17

⚠️ Fair

56.65%

✅ Good

Traeger Grills
28

✅ Good

41.93%

❌ Poor

Sur La Table
89

✅ Good

40.15%

❌ Poor

MEATER
13

❌ Poor

73.54%

✅ Good

Almond Cow
7

❌ Poor

65.57%

✅ Good

Material Kitchen
11

❌ Poor

46.36%

⚠️ Fair

Nutr
8

❌ Poor

59.38%

✅ 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 3,406.15 kb
Our Place
✅ -1.02

❌ Poor

3,525.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

Made In
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

1,020.43 kb

✅ Good

Anyday
✅ -2.16

✅ Good

2,168.86 kb

✅ Good

Caraway
✅ -2.12

✅ Good

4,301.24 kb

❌ Poor

KitchenAid
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

3,343.48 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hedley & Bennett
✅ -0.38

❌ Poor

2,087.25 kb

✅ Good

Gozney
✅ -3.46

✅ Good

4,611.04 kb

❌ Poor

Coolina USA
✅ -2.72

✅ Good

1,894.19 kb

✅ Good

Fable
✅ -1.33

❌ Poor

3,435.72 kb

⚠️ Fair

Traeger Grills
🟧 0.63

❌ Poor

3,274.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Sur La Table
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

4,290.88 kb

❌ Poor

MEATER
✅ -2.47

✅ Good

919.81 kb

✅ Good

Almond Cow
✅ -2.67

✅ Good

3,837.63 kb

❌ Poor

Material Kitchen
✅ -0.78

❌ Poor

6,345.06 kb

❌ Poor

Nutr
✅ -2.69

✅ Good

4,015.0 kb

❌ Poor

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 46.67 20.33
Our Place
47

⚠️ Fair

16

✅ Good

Made In
74

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Anyday
50

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

Caraway
77

❌ Poor

45

❌ Poor

KitchenAid
31

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hedley & Bennett
69

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Gozney
41

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Coolina USA
75

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Fable
17

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Traeger Grills
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Sur La Table
30

✅ Good

20

⚠️ Fair

MEATER
130

❌ Poor

18

✅ Good

Almond Cow
35

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Material Kitchen
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Nutr
1

✅ Good

1

✅ 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 250 441 63.0%
Our Place
16

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

65.96%
Made In
18

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

75.68%
Anyday
23

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

54.0%
Caraway
13

✅ Good

64

✅ Good

83.12%
KitchenAid
24

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

16.13%
Hedley & Bennett
26

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

60.87%
Gozney
37

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

7.32%
Coolina USA
30

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

60.0%
Fable
7

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

47.06%
Traeger Grills
9

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

35.71%
Sur La Table
20

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

33.33%
MEATER
5

✅ Good

122

✅ Good

93.85%
Almond Cow
22

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

37.14%
Material Kitchen
0

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

100.0%
Nutr
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%

Ads detected over time

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