Makeup - January - 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

February

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: ColourPop emerges as a leader with 32 emails, boasting good performance with a high email scoring rate of 71.09% and a balanced promotion percentage. Fenty Beauty follows closely with 27 emails, demonstrating good performance but needing improvements in email scoring and promotional strategies. Smashbox showcases potential with 26 emails but requires enhancements in email scoring and promotion tactics to effectively engage consumers. Glossier and Milk Makeup exhibit strong performances with 20 emails each, reflecting strategic email marketing approaches and minimal promotional content.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Axiology stands out in email deliverability with a positive spam score and effective email size management, positioning itself as a notable player in this aspect. Saie demonstrates strong email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management, contrasting with other brands in the industry. Fenty Beauty excels in email deliverability with a positive spam score, despite needing improvements in email size management. MOB and other brands face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to enhance email deliverability.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Rare Beauty leads in advertising with 71 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence. Glossier closely follows with 70 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. Jones Road Beauty demonstrates potential in advertising but requires enhancements in both volume and diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the Makeup Brands industry. Milk Makeup and The Original MakeUp Eraser face challenges in advertising volume and diversity, necessitating strategic adjustments to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Emails sent on average

13.0

Ads published on average

28

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 13.0 59.44%
Axiology
7

❌ Poor

71.71%

✅ Good

Saie
12

⚠️ Fair

65.17%

⚠️ Fair

Fenty Beauty
27

✅ Good

55.89%

⚠️ Fair

MOB
8

❌ Poor

58.38%

⚠️ Fair

Milk Makeup
20

✅ Good

73.2%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
10

❌ Poor

54.3%

⚠️ Fair

19/99 Beauty
2

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

Glossier
20

✅ Good

73.25%

✅ Good

ColourPop
32

✅ Good

71.09%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
13

⚠️ Fair

44.62%

❌ Poor

Haleys
9

❌ Poor

59.56%

⚠️ Fair

Rare Beauty - US
8

❌ Poor

53.63%

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
1

❌ Poor

65.0%

⚠️ Fair

Smashbox
26

✅ Good

32.12%

❌ 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 -1.52 2,317.04 kb
Axiology
✅ -2.7

✅ Good

2,377.01 kb

⚠️ Fair

Saie
✅ -2.93

✅ Good

2,868.87 kb

❌ Poor

Fenty Beauty
✅ -1.64

⚠️ Fair

839.16 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ -2.4

✅ Good

2,247.86 kb

⚠️ Fair

Milk Makeup
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

724.37 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
- -
r.e.m. beauty
✅ -0.8

❌ Poor

5,078.25 kb

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
✅ -4.0

✅ Good

1,908.04 kb

✅ Good

Glossier
✅ -1.58

⚠️ Fair

1,137.59 kb

✅ Good

ColourPop
✅ -3.05

✅ Good

1,835.06 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
🟧 0.43

❌ Poor

2,475.56 kb

⚠️ Fair

Haleys
✅ -1.2

❌ Poor

1,224.25 kb

✅ Good

Rare Beauty - US
🟧 0.34

❌ Poor

2,043.18 kb

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

2,738.44 kb

❌ Poor

Smashbox
🟧 0.04

❌ Poor

5,664.38 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 27.53 11.2
Axiology
23

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Saie
21

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
34

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
53

❌ Poor

37

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
16

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

19/99 Beauty
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Glossier
70

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

ColourPop
13

✅ Good

13

❌ Poor

The Original MakeUp Eraser
52

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Haleys
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Rare Beauty - US
71

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
54

❌ Poor

5

✅ 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 223 190 46.0%
Axiology
6

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

73.91%
Saie
18

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

14.29%
Fenty Beauty
25

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

26.47%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
27

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

49.06%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

37.5%
19/99 Beauty
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Glossier
45

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

35.71%
ColourPop
2

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
29

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

44.23%
Haleys
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Rare Beauty - US
38

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

46.48%
Jones Road Beauty
20

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

62.96%
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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