Medical - 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.

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

May

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

Warby Parker and Smile Direct Club maintained their positions as email marketing leaders in the month of May. Warby Parker took the lead by sending 24 emails, closely followed by Smile Direct Club with 14 emails.

Shifting our attention to ad campaigns, Hims emerged as the front-runner with an impressive 101 new ads created, while Hero Health, Inc secured the second position with 79 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, both Hims and Hero Health, Inc focused primarily on videos to captivate their audience. Hims utilized 72 videos alongside 29 images, while Hero Health, Inc incorporated 67 videos accompanied by 11 images.

Emails sent on average

6.0

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

2.5

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 6.0 61.22%
Genexa
4

❌ Poor

64.25%

⚠️ Fair

Nurx
4

❌ Poor

61.25%

⚠️ Fair

Hanx
9

✅ Good

55.56%

⚠️ Fair

Health & Her
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

Picnic
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Sons
3

❌ Poor

57.33%

⚠️ Fair

MTHK
4

❌ Poor

37.75%

❌ Poor

Hers
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Candid
4

❌ Poor

60.25%

⚠️ Fair

Hero Health, Inc.
4

❌ Poor

79.5%

✅ Good

Smile Direct Club
14

✅ Good

61.93%

⚠️ Fair

Stix
12

✅ Good

54.75%

❌ Poor

Lola
7

✅ Good

59.71%

⚠️ Fair

Warby Parker
24

✅ Good

67.13%

⚠️ Fair

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 -2.49 1,859.04 kb
Genexa
✅ -2.3

⚠️ Fair

1,701.31 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nurx
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,696.07 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hanx
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

3,731.26 kb

❌ Poor

Health & Her
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

953.82 kb

✅ Good

Picnic
- -
Sons
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

1,753.28 kb

⚠️ Fair

MTHK
- 1,566.4 kb

✅ Good

Hers
- -
Candid
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

1,012.78 kb

✅ Good

Hero Health, Inc.
✅ -2.6

⚠️ Fair

165.18 kb

✅ Good

Smile Direct Club
✅ -2.24

⚠️ Fair

298.63 kb

✅ Good

Stix
✅ -1.85

❌ Poor

1,689.35 kb

⚠️ Fair

Lola
✅ -2.46

⚠️ Fair

856.62 kb

✅ Good

Warby Parker
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

3,020.94 kb

❌ Poor

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 36.67 14.53
Genexa
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Nurx
42

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Hanx
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Health & Her
37

⚠️ Fair

16

❌ Poor

Picnic
0

✅ Good

-
Sons
54

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

MTHK
15

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Hers
72

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Candid
0

✅ Good

-
Hero Health, Inc.
79

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ Fair

Smile Direct Club
64

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Stix
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lola
47

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

Warby Parker
29

✅ Good

18

❌ Poor

Hims
101

❌ Poor

13

✅ 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 215 312 56.73%
Genexa
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Nurx
14

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

57.14%
Hanx
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Health & Her
19

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

48.65%
Picnic
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Sons
31

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

27.78%
MTHK
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Hers
50

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

30.56%
Candid
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hero Health, Inc.
11

✅ Good

67

✅ Good

84.81%
Smile Direct Club
1

✅ Good

61

✅ Good

95.31%
Stix
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Lola
20

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

48.94%
Warby Parker
21

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

27.59%
Hims
29

✅ Good

72

✅ Good

71.29%

Ads detected over time

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