Makeup - September - 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

September

2023

. 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 Summary: ColourPop is the leader in the makeup industry for email marketing, sending the highest number of emails with good email scoring. Smashbox and Glossier also perform well in email marketing. Brands like Aisling Organic and MOB need to improve their email marketing efforts.

Email Deliverability Summary: Axiology excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. Saie also performs well in email deliverability. Smashbox needs to improve its email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Rare Beauty leads in advertising with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Glossier and Jones Road Beauty also perform well in advertising. Brands like Aisling Organic and MOB have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, ColourPop is a leader in email marketing within the makeup industry. Axiology excels in email deliverability. Rare Beauty dominates in advertising. However, some brands like Aisling Organic and MOB need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

11.9

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

1.3

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 11.87 55.58%
Axiology
5

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

Saie
10

❌ Poor

61.6%

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
13

⚠️ Fair

43.23%

❌ Poor

MOB
4

❌ Poor

49.0%

❌ Poor

Milk Makeup
7

❌ Poor

64.14%

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
1

❌ Poor

39.0%

❌ Poor

r.e.m. beauty
13

⚠️ Fair

58.15%

⚠️ Fair

19/99 Beauty
4

❌ Poor

62.0%

✅ Good

Glossier
21

✅ Good

56.14%

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
42

✅ Good

72.67%

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
11

⚠️ Fair

46.18%

❌ Poor

Haleys
11

⚠️ Fair

54.45%

⚠️ Fair

Rare Beauty
12

⚠️ Fair

50.33%

⚠️ Fair

Jones Road Beauty
1

❌ Poor

71.0%

✅ Good

Smashbox
23

✅ Good

30.17%

❌ 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 -1.25 3,138.77 kb
Axiology
✅ -2.72

✅ Good

1,526.03 kb

✅ Good

Saie
✅ -2.0

✅ Good

3,318.07 kb

⚠️ Fair

Fenty Beauty
🟧 0.28

❌ Poor

1,096.36 kb

✅ Good

MOB
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

1,604.37 kb

✅ Good

Milk Makeup
✅ -1.13

⚠️ Fair

640.95 kb

✅ Good

Aisling Organic
- 1,691.03 kb

✅ Good

r.e.m. beauty
✅ -2.27

✅ Good

3,725.29 kb

❌ Poor

19/99 Beauty
✅ -1.25

⚠️ Fair

5,808.75 kb

❌ Poor

Glossier
✅ -1.93

✅ Good

3,400.45 kb

⚠️ Fair

ColourPop
✅ -2.84

✅ Good

1,224.82 kb

✅ Good

The Original MakeUp Eraser
✅ -0.76

❌ Poor

8,737.66 kb

❌ Poor

Haleys
✅ -2.2

✅ Good

2,643.83 kb

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
✅ -0.37

❌ Poor

2,611.11 kb

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

1,452.58 kb

✅ Good

Smashbox
🟧 2.95

❌ Poor

6,023.69 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 27.2 11.6
Axiology
15

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Saie
17

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Fenty Beauty
28

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

MOB
0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
23

✅ Good

17

❌ Poor

Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
31

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

19/99 Beauty
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Glossier
82

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

ColourPop
35

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

The Original MakeUp Eraser
19

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Haleys
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Rare Beauty
107

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Jones Road Beauty
43

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 243 161 39.46%
Axiology
5

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

53.33%
Saie
13

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

23.53%
Fenty Beauty
6

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

75.0%
MOB
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Milk Makeup
8

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

65.22%
Aisling Organic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
r.e.m. beauty
26

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

16.13%
19/99 Beauty
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

83.33%
Glossier
62

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

24.39%
ColourPop
23

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

34.29%
The Original MakeUp Eraser
8

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

52.63%
Haleys
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Rare Beauty
79

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

26.17%
Jones Road Beauty
11

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

74.42%
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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