Makeup - April - 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.

Makeup

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

Makeup

industry, for the month of

April

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In April, ColourPop continued to dominate with the highest number of emails sent at 37 compared to March, followed by Glossier with 20 emails sent. In terms of new ads created during the same period, Glossier was again the top performer with 47 new ads launched, while Jones Road Beauty was in second place with 41 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Glossier continued to focus more on using images with 40 new images versus only 7 new videos in their new ads launched during April. Meanwhile, Jones Road Beauty opted for a video-centric approach, using 41 new videos in its new ads.

Emails sent on average

11.6

Ads published on average

14

Average Spam Score

1.7

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 11.6 54.72%
Axiology
2

❌ Poor

73.5%

✅ Good

Saie
17

✅ Good

64.24%

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
17

✅ Good

45.47%

❌ Poor

MOB
3

❌ Poor

61.33%

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
15

✅ Good

67.53%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
5

❌ Poor

48.4%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
5

❌ Poor

64.2%

✅ Good

Glossier
20

✅ Good

48.4%

❌ Poor

ColourPop
37

✅ Good

62.16%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
12

⚠️ Fair

52.58%

⚠️ Fair

Haleys
10

❌ Poor

47.3%

❌ Poor

Rare Beauty
5

❌ Poor

47.8%

❌ Poor

Jones Road Beauty
10

❌ Poor

62.6%

✅ Good

Smashbox
16

✅ Good

32.06%

❌ 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 -1.7 2,748.35 kb
Axiology
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,576.57 kb

⚠️ Fair

Saie
✅ -2.14

✅ Good

1,368.2 kb

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

1,230.34 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ -1.67

⚠️ Fair

664.78 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -1.57

⚠️ Fair

1,393.21 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
🟧 0.28

❌ Poor

1,007.01 kb

✅ Good

r.e.m. beauty
- -
19/99 Beauty
✅ -4.0

✅ Good

4,214.94 kb

❌ Poor

Glossier
✅ -0.08

❌ Poor

3,325.76 kb

❌ Poor

ColourPop
✅ -3.29

✅ Good

2,031.7 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

6,811.55 kb

❌ Poor

Haleys
✅ -3.25

✅ Good

2,960.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Rare Beauty
🟧 0.32

❌ Poor

3,208.42 kb

❌ Poor

Jones Road Beauty
✅ -3.87

✅ Good

1,846.66 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 3.33

❌ Poor

5,771.52 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 14.47 6.4
Axiology
11

✅ Good

7

⚠️ Fair

Saie
20

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
29

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
0

✅ Good

-
19/99 Beauty
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Glossier
47

❌ Poor

6

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
30

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Haleys
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
12

✅ Good

11

❌ Poor

Jones Road Beauty
41

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Smashbox
7

✅ 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 107 107 49.31%
Axiology
6

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

45.45%
Saie
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

30.0%
Fenty Beauty
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
12

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

55.17%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
19/99 Beauty
2

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

66.67%
Glossier
40

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

14.89%
ColourPop
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
13

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

53.33%
Haleys
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Rare Beauty
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

25.0%
Jones Road Beauty
0

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

100.0%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

100.0%

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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