Makeup - March - 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

March

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In March, ColourPop emerged as the leading email sender with 37 emails, while Glossier took the lead in new ads created with 39 ads launched. Glossier's ad strategy solely focused on using images, with 30 new images used in their new ads. Glossier's marketing efforts were geared towards visually appealing imagery.

Emails sent on average

11.3

Ads published on average

9

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 11.27 54.76%
Axiology
5

❌ Poor

53.8%

⚠️ Fair

Saie
17

✅ Good

65.12%

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
14

✅ Good

39.07%

❌ Poor

MOB
4

❌ Poor

63.75%

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
11

⚠️ Fair

70.82%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
3

❌ Poor

64.67%

✅ Good

r.e.m. beauty
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
4

❌ Poor

73.5%

✅ Good

Glossier
20

✅ Good

48.3%

❌ Poor

ColourPop
37

✅ Good

61.19%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
13

✅ Good

53.69%

⚠️ Fair

Haleys
8

❌ Poor

46.38%

❌ Poor

Rare Beauty
9

❌ Poor

51.89%

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
10

❌ Poor

62.6%

✅ Good

Smashbox
14

✅ Good

29.79%

❌ 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 -1.72 2,879.89 kb
Axiology
✅ -2.9

✅ Good

3,396.18 kb

❌ Poor

Saie
✅ -2.36

✅ Good

1,908.73 kb

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
✅ -0.32

❌ Poor

1,336.75 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

615.66 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -2.44

✅ Good

1,194.39 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
✅ -2.9

✅ Good

964.83 kb

✅ Good

r.e.m. beauty
- -
19/99 Beauty
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

2,314.83 kb

✅ Good

Glossier
✅ -0.38

❌ Poor

2,893.1 kb

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
✅ -2.58

✅ Good

2,131.2 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
✅ -2.01

✅ Good

7,649.18 kb

❌ Poor

Haleys
✅ -2.81

✅ Good

3,449.87 kb

❌ Poor

Rare Beauty
✅ -1.18

❌ Poor

2,714.59 kb

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
✅ -2.87

✅ Good

2,085.54 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 3.23

❌ Poor

5,840.07 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 8.73 5.0
Axiology
12

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Saie
9

⚠️ Fair

6

❌ Poor

Fenty Beauty
13

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
21

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
0

✅ Good

-
19/99 Beauty
0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
39

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

ColourPop
0

✅ Good

-
The Original MakeUp Eraser
0

✅ Good

-
Haleys
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
19

❌ Poor

5

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
9

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Smashbox
2

✅ Good

2

✅ 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 77 45 36.89%
Axiology
5

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

58.33%
Saie
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

33.33%
Fenty Beauty
8

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

38.46%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
9

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

57.14%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
19/99 Beauty
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
30

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
ColourPop
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Original MakeUp Eraser
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Haleys
4

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

42.86%
Rare Beauty
15

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

21.05%
Jones Road Beauty
0

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

100.0%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

2

✅ 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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