Pantry & Groceries - December - 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

December

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Overview: In December, the Pantry & Groceries industry witnessed a notable email surge, with an average of 14.0 emails per brand. Brightland stands out as the leader, sending a robust 32 emails with impressive engagement metrics, securing a 68.78% performance score. Thrive Market follows closely but struggles with email scoring, warranting attention. Misfits Market, however, lags in both performance and promotions, indicating a need for a comprehensive email strategy overhaul.

Email Deliverability Insights: Deliverability remains a strong suit for many brands. Ocado impresses with a minimal spam score and consistently good email size. Flamingo Estate and Chamberlain Coffee demonstrate good deliverability but face challenges in email size optimization. GTFO It’s Vegan, with a large email size, falls short in deliverability. Outstanding Foods needs improvement in both spam score and email size. The executive board is advised to enhance deliverability strategies for brands facing challenges, ensuring a seamless customer experience.

Ads Performance: Advertising in the Pantry & Groceries sector experienced a slight dip, averaging 32.47 ads per brand. Ocado and Misfits Market lead in advertising volume, showcasing diverse strategies. Brightland dominates in ad variety, emphasizing image and video proportion. On the contrary, Thrive Market struggles with diversity, relying heavily on images. This succinct summary equips the executive board with actionable insights for refining marketing strategies in the dynamic Pantry & Groceries market.

Emails sent on average

14.0

Ads published on average

32

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 14.0 57.35%
Misfits Market
9

❌ Poor

46.44%

❌ Poor

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
11

❌ Poor

67.91%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
11

❌ Poor

67.64%

✅ Good

Ocado
1

❌ Poor

30.0%

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
18

✅ Good

47.33%

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
22

✅ Good

63.5%

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
6

❌ Poor

32.17%

❌ Poor

Truff
24

✅ Good

44.96%

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
8

❌ Poor

63.88%

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
18

✅ Good

58.39%

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
30

✅ Good

49.47%

❌ Poor

Brightland
32

✅ Good

68.78%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
20

✅ Good

66.8%

✅ 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 -1.77 2,512.21 kb
Misfits Market
- 1,767.32 kb

✅ Good

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -1.18

❌ Poor

1,902.18 kb

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
✅ -3.55

✅ Good

1,003.42 kb

✅ Good

Ocado
🟧 0.1

❌ Poor

1,373.47 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
✅ -2.45

✅ Good

2,313.3 kb

⚠️ Fair

Good Eggs
- -
Chamberlain Coffee
✅ -0.8

❌ Poor

1,575.66 kb

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
- 11,808.36 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
✅ -2.29

✅ Good

3,274.4 kb

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
✅ -1.9

⚠️ Fair

2,295.21 kb

⚠️ Fair

Liquid I.V.
✅ -1.22

❌ Poor

2,967.2 kb

❌ Poor

Thrive Market
✅ -2.2

✅ Good

3,430.62 kb

❌ Poor

Brightland
✅ -1.01

❌ Poor

406.94 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -2.16

✅ Good

3,243.61 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 32.47 13.8
Misfits Market
63

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

HighKey
0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
24

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
15

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Ocado
73

❌ Poor

63

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Good Eggs
21

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Chamberlain Coffee
55

❌ Poor

27

❌ Poor

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
10

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
39

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
51

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Brightland
60

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
50

❌ Poor

7

✅ 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 214 273 56.06%
Misfits Market
17

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

73.02%
HighKey
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
15

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

37.5%
Kettle & Fire
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

20.0%
Ocado
30

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

58.9%
British Corner Shop
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

23.08%
Good Eggs
21

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Chamberlain Coffee
11

✅ Good

44

✅ Good

80.0%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
1

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

90.0%
Outstanding Foods
3

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

76.92%
Liquid I.V.
25

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

35.9%
Thrive Market
6

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

88.24%
Brightland
47

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

21.67%
Fly by Jing
16

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

68.0%

Ads detected over time

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