Makeup - June - 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

June

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 June, ColourPop and Smashbox maintained their positions as the top brands in terms of emails. ColourPop secured the first position with a total of 34 emails, while Smashbox followed behind with 23 emails.

Shifting to advertising, Glossier emerged as the leader with 139 new ads created this month, utilizing the highest number of ad copies (47) among the benchmark brands. Jones Road Beauty took the second position with 65 new ads with a very low number of ad copies (4).

Regarding their ad strategies, Glossier leaned more towards using images over videos, employing 96 images and 43 videos. On the other hand, Jones Road Beauty focused more on videos, utilizing 43 videos and 22 images in their ads.

Emails sent on average

12.1

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

0.5

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 12.13 52.15%
Axiology
5

❌ Poor

71.2%

✅ Good

Saie
13

⚠️ Fair

62.69%

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
19

✅ Good

44.95%

❌ Poor

MOB
2

❌ Poor

68.5%

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
14

✅ Good

71.5%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
6

❌ Poor

47.83%

⚠️ Fair

19/99 Beauty
4

❌ Poor

57.75%

✅ Good

Glossier
22

✅ Good

46.27%

❌ Poor

ColourPop
34

✅ Good

61.85%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
16

✅ Good

43.44%

❌ Poor

Haleys
10

❌ Poor

49.8%

⚠️ Fair

Rare Beauty
4

❌ Poor

58.75%

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
11

⚠️ Fair

60.55%

✅ Good

Smashbox
22

✅ Good

27.09%

❌ 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 -0.52 3,462.01 kb
Axiology
✅ -1.98

✅ Good

7,263.66 kb

❌ Poor

Saie
✅ -2.66

✅ Good

3,025.49 kb

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
🟧 0.32

❌ Poor

1,260.39 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

204.83 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -1.85

✅ Good

915.58 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
- -
r.e.m. beauty
✅ -0.33

❌ Poor

3,828.03 kb

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

5,391.3 kb

❌ Poor

Glossier
🟧 0.84

❌ Poor

3,585.07 kb

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
✅ -2.78

✅ Good

1,993.6 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
🟧 0.44

❌ Poor

7,655.01 kb

❌ Poor

Haleys
✅ -0.37

❌ Poor

3,102.05 kb

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
✅ -1.85

✅ Good

2,475.79 kb

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
✅ -1.71

✅ Good

2,891.98 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
⚠️ 4.15

❌ Poor

5,948.12 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 24.6 8.4
Axiology
25

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Saie
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
27

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
30

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
8

✅ Good

8

⚠️ Fair

19/99 Beauty
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Glossier
109

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

ColourPop
37

❌ Poor

8

⚠️ Fair

The Original MakeUp Eraser
65

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Haleys
0

✅ Good

-
Rare Beauty
8

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
42

❌ Poor

0

✅ 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 219 149 40.38%
Axiology
25

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Saie
9

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

40.0%
Fenty Beauty
21

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

18.52%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
24

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

20.0%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
3

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

62.5%
19/99 Beauty
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Glossier
70

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

35.78%
ColourPop
29

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

21.62%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
32

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

50.77%
Haleys
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Rare Beauty
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

25.0%
Jones Road Beauty
0

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

100.0%
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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