Outdoor - 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.

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

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

In August, RTIC Outdoors and Outdoor Voices were at the forefront of email marketing, sending 30 and 24 emails, respectively.

Shifting to advertising, YETI emerged as the leader with 95 new ads, boasting the highest number of ad copies at 35 this month. RTIC Outdoors secured the second position with 92 new ads.

Concerning ad strategy, YETI leaned more towards images, while RTIC Outdoors prioritized videos over images. YETI employed 65 images versus 30 videos and RTIC Outdoors utilized 73 videos versus 19 images in their ad campaigns.

Emails sent on average

10.1

Ads published on average

40

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 10.07 62.89%
Snowpeak
14

✅ Good

48.29%

❌ Poor

ORCA Coolers
7

❌ Poor

45.14%

❌ Poor

Sportsman's Guide
24

✅ Good

72.96%

✅ Good

Solo Stove
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

YETI - US
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Atmosphere
13

✅ Good

49.31%

❌ Poor

Roofnest
5

❌ Poor

73.6%

✅ Good

MODL Outdoors
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydro Flask
10

⚠️ Fair

60.0%

⚠️ Fair

Thesus Outdoors
3

❌ Poor

52.67%

❌ Poor

Outdoor Voices
24

✅ Good

76.75%

✅ Good

Veloretti
2

❌ Poor

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

RTIC Outdoors
30

✅ Good

61.57%

⚠️ Fair

Cowboy - EN
7

❌ Poor

64.14%

⚠️ Fair

Rumpl
12

✅ Good

60.58%

⚠️ 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 -2.46 2,258.69 kb
Snowpeak
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

4,989.02 kb

❌ Poor

ORCA Coolers
✅ -1.14

❌ Poor

5,230.24 kb

❌ Poor

Sportsman's Guide
✅ -3.22

✅ Good

151.38 kb

✅ Good

Solo Stove
- -
YETI - US
- -
Atmosphere
✅ -3.12

✅ Good

1,592.2 kb

✅ Good

Roofnest
✅ -3.84

✅ Good

478.16 kb

✅ Good

MODL Outdoors
- -
Hydro Flask
✅ -0.43

❌ Poor

2,273.72 kb

⚠️ Fair

Thesus Outdoors
✅ -2.5

⚠️ Fair

7,162.17 kb

❌ Poor

Outdoor Voices
✅ -2.76

✅ Good

773.13 kb

✅ Good

Veloretti
- 5,313.71 kb

❌ Poor

RTIC Outdoors
✅ -2.27

⚠️ Fair

2,474.31 kb

⚠️ Fair

Cowboy - EN
✅ -1.43

❌ Poor

1,249.1 kb

✅ Good

Rumpl
✅ -2.76

✅ Good

4,291.91 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 40.0 15.2
Snowpeak
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

ORCA Coolers
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Sportsman's Guide
18

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Solo Stove
71

❌ Poor

31

❌ Poor

YETI - US
95

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Atmosphere
0

✅ Good

-
Roofnest
15

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

MODL Outdoors
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hydro Flask
44

⚠️ Fair

16

⚠️ Fair

Thesus Outdoors
24

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Outdoor Voices
63

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Veloretti
69

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

RTIC Outdoors
92

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Cowboy - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Rumpl
87

❌ Poor

5

✅ 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 365 222 37.0%
Snowpeak
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

30.0%
ORCA Coolers
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Sportsman's Guide
18

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Solo Stove
49

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

30.99%
YETI - US
65

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

31.58%
Atmosphere
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Roofnest
3

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

46.67%
MODL Outdoors
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

62.5%
Hydro Flask
20

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

54.55%
Thesus Outdoors
15

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

37.5%
Outdoor Voices
49

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

19.05%
Veloretti
46

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

30.43%
RTIC Outdoors
19

✅ Good

73

✅ Good

79.35%
Cowboy - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Rumpl
72

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

13.79%

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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