Medical - April - 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.

Medical

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Medical

industry, for the month of

April

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 April, Warby Parker maintained its lead in terms of emails sent with 23 emails, followed by Smile Direct Club with 13 emails. This is compared to March where Warby Parker was also in the lead.

Hims took the lead in ad creation with 53 new ads launched in April, followed by Smile Direct Club with 43 new ads, and then Warby Parker with 30 new ads.

When it comes to ad strategy, Hims used a majority of images with 43 new images and only 10 new videos in its new ads. Smile Direct Club, on the other hand, was more focused on videos with 42 new videos and only 1 new image in its new ads. Warby Parker used an equal number of images and videos in its new ads, with 15 new images and 15 new videos.

Emails sent on average

5.6

Ads published on average

21

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 5.6 58.43%
Genexa
2

❌ Poor

49.0%

❌ Poor

Nurx
9

✅ Good

51.33%

❌ Poor

Hanx
8

✅ Good

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Health & Her
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Picnic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Sons
9

✅ Good

57.44%

⚠️ Fair

MTHK
2

❌ Poor

37.5%

❌ Poor

Hers
2

❌ Poor

75.0%

✅ Good

Candid
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hero Health, Inc.
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Smile Direct Club
13

✅ Good

61.31%

⚠️ Fair

Stix
12

✅ Good

43.67%

❌ Poor

Lola
4

❌ Poor

72.5%

✅ Good

Warby Parker
23

✅ Good

67.26%

✅ Good

Hims
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ 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 -1.9 2,018.59 kb
Genexa
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,852.14 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nurx
✅ -1.53

❌ Poor

2,078.67 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hanx
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

7,117.16 kb

❌ Poor

Health & Her
- -
Picnic
- -
Sons
✅ -3.23

✅ Good

1,611.6 kb

✅ Good

MTHK
- 1,201.98 kb

✅ Good

Hers
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

59.27 kb

✅ Good

Candid
- -
Hero Health, Inc.
- -
Smile Direct Club
✅ -2.41

✅ Good

344.58 kb

✅ Good

Stix
✅ -0.33

❌ Poor

2,834.62 kb

❌ Poor

Lola
✅ -3.35

✅ Good

1,127.31 kb

✅ Good

Warby Parker
✅ -2.16

✅ Good

1,312.22 kb

✅ Good

Hims
- -

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 21.0 9.13
Genexa
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Nurx
11

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Hanx
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Health & Her
28

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Picnic
11

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Sons
27

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

MTHK
22

⚠️ Fair

13

❌ Poor

Hers
22

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Candid
0

✅ Good

-
Hero Health, Inc.
30

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Smile Direct Club
43

❌ Poor

9

⚠️ Fair

Stix
0

✅ Good

-
Lola
28

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Warby Parker
30

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Hims
53

❌ Poor

9

⚠️ Fair

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 151 148 46.98%
Genexa
4

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

42.86%
Nurx
4

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

63.64%
Hanx
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
Health & Her
14

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

50.0%
Picnic
5

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

54.55%
Sons
5

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

40.74%
MTHK
19

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Hers
15

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

31.82%
Candid
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hero Health, Inc.
4

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

86.67%
Smile Direct Club
1

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

97.67%
Stix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Lola
20

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

21.43%
Warby Parker
15

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

50.0%
Hims
43

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

18.87%

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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