Makeup - May - 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

May

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 May, ColourPop is again the lead in emails with a total of 30 emails sent. Closely followed this month by Smasdhbox with 24 emails.

Regarding ads, The Original MakeUp Eraser created 64 new ads leading all makeup brands of our benchmark. ColourPop in the second position with 56 new ads created and the highest number of ad copies with 26 unique ad copies used in all May's ads.

In terms of ad strategy, The Original MakeUp Eraser was focused more on using videos with 37 videos versus 27 images in its new ads launched during May. Meanwhile, ColourPop opted more for the image-centric approach, using 36 images versus only 14 videos in its new ads.

Emails sent on average

11.6

Ads published on average

21

Average Spam Score

0.7

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 11.6 52.37%
Axiology
6

❌ Poor

73.33%

✅ Good

Saie
15

✅ Good

66.53%

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
15

✅ Good

38.27%

❌ Poor

MOB
4

❌ Poor

57.25%

⚠️ Fair

Milk Makeup
9

❌ Poor

75.89%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
2

❌ Poor

33.0%

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
5

❌ Poor

60.6%

✅ Good

Glossier
20

✅ Good

45.55%

❌ Poor

ColourPop
30

✅ Good

61.5%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
15

✅ Good

47.4%

⚠️ Fair

Haleys
10

❌ Poor

49.6%

⚠️ Fair

Rare Beauty
5

❌ Poor

56.6%

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
14

✅ Good

58.5%

✅ Good

Smashbox
24

✅ Good

31.46%

❌ 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 -0.71 3,295.18 kb
Axiology
✅ -2.2

✅ Good

6,051.0 kb

❌ Poor

Saie
✅ -2.82

✅ Good

1,010.23 kb

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
🟧 1.09

❌ Poor

1,616.81 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ -2.2

✅ Good

1,551.55 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -3.27

✅ Good

1,292.46 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
- -
r.e.m. beauty
🟧 1.5

❌ Poor

4,267.24 kb

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
✅ -1.0

✅ Good

4,089.39 kb

❌ Poor

Glossier
🟧 0.28

❌ Poor

4,552.8 kb

❌ Poor

ColourPop
✅ -1.79

✅ Good

1,664.6 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
✅ -0.59

❌ Poor

7,199.77 kb

❌ Poor

Haleys
✅ -1.76

✅ Good

2,392.65 kb

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
✅ -1.12

✅ Good

2,311.42 kb

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
✅ -0.88

✅ Good

2,237.74 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 2.74

❌ Poor

5,626.18 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 20.93 9.6
Axiology
17

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Saie
15

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
19

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
23

⚠️ Fair

17

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
9

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

19/99 Beauty
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Glossier
46

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

ColourPop
56

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

The Original MakeUp Eraser
64

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Haleys
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
18

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
19

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Smashbox
18

✅ Good

1

✅ 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 175 132 42.04%
Axiology
16

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

5.88%
Saie
14

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

6.67%
Fenty Beauty
12

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

31.58%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
7

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

69.57%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
4

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

55.56%
19/99 Beauty
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Glossier
41

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

10.87%
ColourPop
36

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

25.0%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
27

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

57.81%
Haleys
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Rare Beauty
12

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

33.33%
Jones Road Beauty
0

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

100.0%
Smashbox
0

✅ Good

18

✅ 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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