Makeup - February - 2024


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

2024

. 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 Performance: Smashbox leads in email marketing with 29 emails sent, demonstrating good email scoring despite poor promotion rates, showcasing effective audience engagement. Fenty Beauty closely follows, sending 25 emails, with good email scoring and fair promotion performance, indicating strong audience targeting strategies. ColourPop showcases robust email marketing practices, sending 23 emails with good email scoring and promotion rates, reflecting effective audience engagement efforts and promotional strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Axiology maintains commendable email deliverability with a good spam score despite poor email size performance, suggesting efficient content management practices. Saie exhibits fair email deliverability, with a good spam score but poor email size performance, indicating room for improvement in content optimization. Fenty Beauty demonstrates strong email deliverability with a good spam score and good email size performance, ensuring consistent inbox placement and content optimization.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Glossier leads in advertising impact and diversity with 111 impactful ads, showcasing both volume and variety in content, effectively positioning itself in the competitive makeup market. Rare Beauty closely follows with 62 impactful ads, reflecting robust advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively engaging with its target audience. The Original MakeUp Eraser maintains solid advertising impact with 54 impactful ads, exhibiting good diversity in new images and videos, indicating effective content variation and innovation strategies.

Emails sent on average

11.7

Ads published on average

29

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 11.67 58.3%
Axiology
3

❌ Poor

55.33%

⚠️ Fair

Saie
11

⚠️ Fair

50.09%

❌ Poor

Fenty Beauty
25

✅ Good

58.72%

⚠️ Fair

MOB
9

❌ Poor

69.33%

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
15

✅ Good

73.67%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
8

❌ Poor

39.5%

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
7

❌ Poor

55.14%

⚠️ Fair

Glossier
9

❌ Poor

78.11%

✅ Good

ColourPop
23

✅ Good

75.13%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
16

✅ Good

43.38%

❌ Poor

Haleys
8

❌ Poor

59.88%

⚠️ Fair

Rare Beauty - US
10

❌ Poor

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
2

❌ Poor

75.0%

✅ Good

Smashbox
29

✅ Good

45.07%

❌ 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 -1.86 2,490.49 kb
Axiology
✅ -1.33

❌ Poor

1,885.74 kb

✅ Good

Saie
✅ -0.7

❌ Poor

3,094.94 kb

❌ Poor

Fenty Beauty
✅ -3.7

✅ Good

913.5 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ -3.29

✅ Good

1,002.26 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -1.47

❌ Poor

1,366.69 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
- -
r.e.m. beauty
✅ -0.31

❌ Poor

4,489.58 kb

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
🟧 2.14

❌ Poor

4,546.79 kb

❌ Poor

Glossier
✅ -1.11

❌ Poor

378.4 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -3.79

✅ Good

1,602.99 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
🟧 1.48

❌ Poor

1,864.45 kb

✅ Good

Haleys
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

1,753.05 kb

✅ Good

Rare Beauty - US
✅ -2.95

✅ Good

2,719.95 kb

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
✅ -4.9

✅ Good

3,918.33 kb

❌ Poor

Smashbox
✅ -2.05

⚠️ Fair

5,409.16 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 28.67 12.67
Axiology
0

✅ Good

-
Saie
14

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
19

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
24

✅ Good

19

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
28

⚠️ Fair

12

⚠️ Fair

19/99 Beauty
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Glossier
111

❌ Poor

18

❌ Poor

ColourPop
50

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
54

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Haleys
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Rare Beauty - US
62

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Jones Road Beauty
40

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Smashbox
14

✅ Good

8

✅ 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 200 230 53.49%
Axiology
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Saie
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

14.29%
Fenty Beauty
10

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

47.37%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
9

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

62.5%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
14

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

50.0%
19/99 Beauty
1

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

87.5%
Glossier
53

✅ Good

58

✅ Good

52.25%
ColourPop
26

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

48.0%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
33

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

38.89%
Haleys
2

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

66.67%
Rare Beauty - US
17

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

72.58%
Jones Road Beauty
22

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

45.0%
Smashbox
1

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

92.86%

Ads detected over time

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