Pantry & Groceries - 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.

Pantry & Groceries

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

Pantry & Groceries

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.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In August, Thrive Market and GTFO it's Vegan maintained again their leadership in emails, sending 30 and 20 promotional emails respectively.

Moving on to advertising, Ocado took the lead by creating 92 new ads this month, incorporating 66 ad copies. Securing the second position, Misfits Market launched 90 new ads.

As for their ad strategy, Ocado emphasized videos (54) over images (38), while Misfits Market adopted a nearly balanced approach, employing 48 images and 42 videos.

Emails sent on average

10.2

Ads published on average

33

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 10.2 56.31%
Misfits Market
9

❌ Poor

39.89%

❌ Poor

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
14

✅ Good

81.93%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
3

❌ Poor

64.33%

✅ Good

Ocado
4

❌ Poor

45.5%

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
12

✅ Good

64.5%

✅ Good

Good Eggs
3

❌ Poor

41.0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
14

✅ Good

60.0%

⚠️ Fair

GTFO It’s Vegan
20

✅ Good

36.4%

❌ Poor

Truff
5

❌ Poor

40.0%

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
2

❌ Poor

79.0%

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
11

⚠️ Fair

53.82%

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
30

✅ Good

48.6%

❌ Poor

Brightland
13

✅ Good

73.08%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
13

✅ Good

70.08%

✅ Good

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 -1.74 3,247.67 kb
Misfits Market
- 2,021.43 kb

✅ Good

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -1.59

⚠️ Fair

577.15 kb

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
✅ -0.87

❌ Poor

944.58 kb

✅ Good

Ocado
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

1,010.64 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
✅ -3.28

✅ Good

1,640.47 kb

✅ Good

Good Eggs
🟧 0.37

❌ Poor

2,883.05 kb

✅ Good

Chamberlain Coffee
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

2,712.34 kb

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
✅ -2.89

✅ Good

12,211.48 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
🟧 0.84

❌ Poor

3,970.61 kb

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

1,340.14 kb

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
✅ -0.48

❌ Poor

2,170.14 kb

✅ Good

Thrive Market
✅ -2.87

✅ Good

2,588.83 kb

✅ Good

Brightland
✅ -1.18

❌ Poor

984.56 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -1.82

⚠️ Fair

1,256.74 kb

✅ Good

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 32.67 14.8
Misfits Market
90

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

HighKey
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Flamingo Estate
40

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Kettle & Fire
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Ocado
92

❌ Poor

60

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
24

✅ Good

24

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
64

❌ Poor

16

⚠️ Fair

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
18

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
12

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
32

⚠️ Fair

11

✅ Good

Thrive Market
68

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Brightland
31

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
0

✅ 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 205 276 56.33%
Misfits Market
48

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

46.67%
HighKey
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Flamingo Estate
20

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

32.5%
Kettle & Fire
5

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

66.67%
Ocado
38

✅ Good

54

✅ Good

58.7%
British Corner Shop
23

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

4.17%
Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
30

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

53.13%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
6

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

66.67%
Outstanding Foods
5

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
Liquid I.V.
19

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

37.5%
Thrive Market
2

✅ Good

66

✅ Good

97.06%
Brightland
5

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

83.87%
Fly by Jing
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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