Medical - August - 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

August

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 August, Warby Parker is the leader again sending the most emails, totaling 26, while Stix followed with 13 emails.

In terms of advertising, Hims continued to take the lead, creating 140 new ads. Warby Parker secured the second position with 96 new ads and the most ad copies used this month, totaling 46.

Regarding advertising strategy, both Hims and Warby Parker emphasized videos this month in their ads. Hims used 80 videos and 60 images, while Warby Parker employed 52 videos and 44 images.

Emails sent on average

4.7

Ads published on average

41

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 4.73 60.18%
Genexa
2

❌ Poor

41.5%

❌ Poor

Nurx
1

❌ Poor

66.0%

⚠️ Fair

Hanx
8

✅ Good

64.38%

⚠️ Fair

Health & Her
1

❌ Poor

26.0%

❌ Poor

Picnic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Sons
4

❌ Poor

52.25%

❌ Poor

MTHK
3

❌ Poor

45.33%

❌ Poor

Hers
1

❌ Poor

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

Candid
2

❌ Poor

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

Hero Health, Inc.
2

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Smile Direct Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Stix
13

✅ Good

53.15%

❌ Poor

Lola
8

✅ Good

60.88%

⚠️ Fair

Warby Parker
26

✅ Good

66.58%

✅ 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 -1.7 2,469.67 kb
Genexa
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

4,731.44 kb

❌ Poor

Nurx
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

512.28 kb

✅ Good

Hanx
✅ -1.81

⚠️ Fair

2,539.92 kb

⚠️ Fair

Health & Her
- 1,898.63 kb

✅ Good

Picnic
- -
Sons
✅ -2.83

✅ Good

1,164.49 kb

✅ Good

MTHK
- 1,855.95 kb

✅ Good

Hers
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,228.71 kb

✅ Good

Candid
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

916.06 kb

✅ Good

Hero Health, Inc.
- 625.08 kb

✅ Good

Smile Direct Club
- -
Stix
✅ -1.48

❌ Poor

4,888.34 kb

❌ Poor

Lola
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

2,711.34 kb

⚠️ Fair

Warby Parker
✅ -1.66

⚠️ Fair

1,668.37 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 41.07 13.67
Genexa
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Nurx
79

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Hanx
8

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Health & Her
43

⚠️ Fair

17

❌ Poor

Picnic
0

✅ Good

-
Sons
64

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

MTHK
0

✅ Good

-
Hers
60

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Candid
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Hero Health, Inc.
56

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Smile Direct Club
67

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Stix
0

✅ Good

-
Lola
0

✅ Good

-
Warby Parker
96

❌ Poor

30

❌ Poor

Hims
140

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

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 234 369 59.9%
Genexa
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Nurx
13

✅ Good

60

✅ Good

75.95%
Hanx
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

25.0%
Health & Her
36

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

16.28%
Picnic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Sons
35

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

34.38%
MTHK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hers
22

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

63.33%
Candid
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Hero Health, Inc.
9

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

83.93%
Smile Direct Club
7

✅ Good

60

✅ Good

89.55%
Stix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Lola
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Warby Parker
44

✅ Good

52

✅ Good

54.17%
Hims
60

✅ Good

80

✅ Good

57.14%

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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