Makeup - August - 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

August

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 August, ColourPop led in emails with 37. Smashbox and Glossier held the second spot with 22 emails each.

For advertising, ColourPop stood out with 112 new ads made, while Jones Road Beauty created 86 new ads.

In terms of advertising approach, ColourPop emphasized images, while Jones Road Beauty leaned towards videos. ColourPop used 90 images and 20 videos, while Jones Road Beauty employed 57 videos and 29 images.

Emails sent on average

12.4

Ads published on average

32

Average Spam Score

1.0

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 12.4 56.39%
Axiology
6

❌ Poor

66.17%

✅ Good

Saie
13

⚠️ Fair

58.31%

⚠️ Fair

Fenty Beauty
20

✅ Good

49.95%

❌ Poor

MOB
5

❌ Poor

48.6%

❌ Poor

Milk Makeup
11

❌ Poor

75.09%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
1

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
9

❌ Poor

67.11%

✅ Good

19/99 Beauty
5

❌ Poor

56.2%

⚠️ Fair

Glossier
23

✅ Good

49.7%

❌ Poor

ColourPop
36

✅ Good

76.39%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
15

✅ Good

48.33%

❌ Poor

Haleys
7

❌ Poor

47.71%

❌ Poor

Rare Beauty
6

❌ Poor

44.67%

❌ Poor

Jones Road Beauty
7

❌ Poor

71.14%

✅ Good

Smashbox
22

✅ Good

28.0%

❌ 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 -0.95 2,797.23 kb
Axiology
✅ -4.18

✅ Good

6,338.51 kb

❌ Poor

Saie
✅ -3.02

✅ Good

1,818.7 kb

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
✅ -1.5

✅ Good

1,161.5 kb

✅ Good

MOB
🟧 0.26

❌ Poor

1,429.59 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -0.74

❌ Poor

610.81 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
- 2,715.75 kb

⚠️ Fair

r.e.m. beauty
✅ -3.44

✅ Good

5,899.08 kb

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
✅ -1.0

⚠️ Fair

4,085.59 kb

❌ Poor

Glossier
✅ -0.47

❌ Poor

2,740.96 kb

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
✅ -2.86

✅ Good

997.59 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
✅ -0.18

❌ Poor

4,801.95 kb

❌ Poor

Haleys
✅ -1.83

✅ Good

3,395.71 kb

❌ Poor

Rare Beauty
🟧 0.05

❌ Poor

3,025.54 kb

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
✅ -0.71

❌ Poor

1,238.57 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
⚠️ 4.83

❌ Poor

5,622.74 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 31.53 11.73
Axiology
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Saie
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
12

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
35

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
29

⚠️ Fair

11

⚠️ Fair

19/99 Beauty
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Glossier
84

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

ColourPop
112

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
84

❌ Poor

28

❌ Poor

Haleys
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
86

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Smashbox
0

✅ 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 282 187 39.53%
Axiology
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Saie
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
Fenty Beauty
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

25.0%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
13

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

62.86%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
17

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

41.38%
19/99 Beauty
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
Glossier
56

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

33.33%
ColourPop
90

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

17.86%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
54

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

35.71%
Haleys
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Rare Beauty
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%
Jones Road Beauty
29

✅ Good

57

✅ Good

66.28%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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