Outdoor - 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.

Outdoor

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

Outdoor

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 terms of the number of emails sent, Sportsman's Guide took again the lead in April with 36 emails followed by RTIC Outdoors with 25 emails. Solo Stove created the highest number of new ads with 83 ads launched, followed by Outdoor Voices and YETI with 60 ads each.

When it comes to ad strategy, Solo Stove used more images than videos in their new ads, with 61 images and 21 videos. On the other hand, YETI and Outdoor Voices used a balanced approach, with YETI using 29 images and 28 videos, and Outdoor Voices using 27 images and 22 videos in their new ads during April.

Emails sent on average

12.5

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

2.2

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 12.53 58.52%
Snowpeak
16

✅ Good

42.06%

❌ Poor

ORCA Coolers
6

❌ Poor

57.17%

⚠️ Fair

Sportsman's Guide
36

✅ Good

63.11%

⚠️ Fair

Solo Stove
20

✅ Good

62.15%

⚠️ Fair

YETI - US
16

✅ Good

53.06%

⚠️ Fair

Atmosphere
10

❌ Poor

49.9%

❌ Poor

Roofnest
2

❌ Poor

45.5%

❌ Poor

MODL Outdoors
4

❌ Poor

77.0%

✅ Good

Hydro Flask
9

❌ Poor

65.56%

✅ Good

Thesus Outdoors
9

❌ Poor

45.56%

❌ Poor

Outdoor Voices
16

✅ Good

61.69%

⚠️ Fair

Veloretti
1

❌ Poor

68.0%

✅ Good

RTIC Outdoors
25

✅ Good

63.88%

⚠️ Fair

Cowboy - EN
8

❌ Poor

61.5%

⚠️ Fair

Rumpl
10

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

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 -2.16 2,189.01 kb
Snowpeak
✅ -1.84

❌ Poor

4,677.03 kb

❌ Poor

ORCA Coolers
✅ -2.13

⚠️ Fair

6,403.07 kb

❌ Poor

Sportsman's Guide
✅ -2.46

✅ Good

139.76 kb

✅ Good

Solo Stove
✅ -2.22

⚠️ Fair

1,747.45 kb

✅ Good

YETI - US
✅ -3.02

✅ Good

4,678.67 kb

❌ Poor

Atmosphere
✅ -2.43

✅ Good

1,570.49 kb

✅ Good

Roofnest
🟧 0.5

❌ Poor

1,120.36 kb

✅ Good

MODL Outdoors
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

570.38 kb

✅ Good

Hydro Flask
✅ -1.46

❌ Poor

1,025.78 kb

✅ Good

Thesus Outdoors
🟧 0.12

❌ Poor

4,616.47 kb

❌ Poor

Outdoor Voices
✅ -0.42

❌ Poor

830.47 kb

✅ Good

Veloretti
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,308.37 kb

✅ Good

RTIC Outdoors
✅ -2.94

✅ Good

2,030.58 kb

⚠️ Fair

Cowboy - EN
✅ -1.88

❌ Poor

1,634.1 kb

✅ Good

Rumpl
✅ -2.97

✅ Good

3,400.45 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 26.93 13.53
Snowpeak
10

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

ORCA Coolers
19

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Sportsman's Guide
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Solo Stove
83

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

YETI - US
60

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Atmosphere
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Roofnest
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

MODL Outdoors
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hydro Flask
21

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Thesus Outdoors
0

✅ Good

-
Outdoor Voices
60

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Veloretti
30

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

RTIC Outdoors
36

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Cowboy - EN
45

❌ Poor

44

❌ Poor

Rumpl
30

❌ Poor

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 267 120 29.7%
Snowpeak
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

40.0%
ORCA Coolers
16

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

15.79%
Sportsman's Guide
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Solo Stove
61

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

25.3%
YETI - US
29

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

46.67%
Atmosphere
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Roofnest
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
MODL Outdoors
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Hydro Flask
12

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

42.86%
Thesus Outdoors
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Outdoor Voices
27

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

36.67%
Veloretti
26

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

13.33%
RTIC Outdoors
15

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

52.78%
Cowboy - EN
44

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

2.22%
Rumpl
28

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

6.67%

Ads detected over time

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