Pantry & Groceries - January - 2024


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

February

2024

. 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 Performance: Thrive Market leads in email marketing efforts, sending 30 emails with a good performance score (48.1%), albeit with a high promotion ratio (100%). Chamberlain Coffee closely follows with 20 emails, maintaining a strong performance score and balanced promotion ratio. Liquid I.V. demonstrates notable performance with 14 emails, despite needing improvement in promotion strategies. Fly by Jing, Brightland, and Truff showcase promising email marketing but require adjustments in both performance and promotion ratios. Kettle & Fire, Outstanding Foods, Misfits Market, GTFO It’s Vegan, Ocado, Flamingo Estate, Good Eggs, British Corner Shop, and HighKey struggle with email marketing performance and promotion strategies, needing significant enhancements to compete effectively.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Misfits Market, Flamingo Estate, and Kettle & Fire exhibit positive spam scores, showcasing good email deliverability despite challenges in email size management. Chamberlain Coffee and GTFO It’s Vegan demonstrate effective email deliverability with positive spam scores and efficient email size management. Liquid I.V., Truff, Outstanding Foods, and Thrive Market show promise in spam scores but require improvements in email size management for optimal deliverability. Brightland, Fly by Jing, British Corner Shop, Good Eggs, and HighKey face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to optimize email deliverability.

Advertising Performance: Liquid I.V. leads in advertising with 92 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content. Ocado closely follows with 88 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. Kettle & Fire, Misfits Market, and Thrive Market demonstrate commendable advertising efforts with a mix of volume and unique copy. Chamberlain Coffee, Truff, Good Eggs, Flamingo Estate, and Liquid I.V. exhibit potential in advertising but require enhancements in both volume and diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the Pantry & Groceries industry. Brightland, Fly by Jing, British Corner Shop, Outstanding Foods, GTFO It’s Vegan, and HighKey struggle with advertising impact and diversity, needing significant improvements to effectively engage consumers.

Emails sent on average

8.7

Ads published on average

35

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 8.73 57.02%
Misfits Market
6

❌ Poor

34.33%

❌ Poor

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
2

❌ Poor

76.5%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
7

❌ Poor

59.29%

⚠️ Fair

Ocado
5

❌ Poor

53.6%

⚠️ Fair

British Corner Shop
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
20

✅ Good

66.35%

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
5

❌ Poor

37.8%

❌ Poor

Truff
11

✅ Good

45.73%

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
6

❌ Poor

65.83%

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
14

✅ Good

61.43%

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
30

✅ Good

48.1%

❌ Poor

Brightland
12

✅ Good

74.83%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
13

✅ Good

62.54%

⚠️ 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 -2.08 2,681.42 kb
Misfits Market
- 2,526.97 kb

⚠️ Fair

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

3,976.28 kb

❌ Poor

Kettle & Fire
✅ -2.79

✅ Good

1,784.73 kb

✅ Good

Ocado
✅ -2.56

✅ Good

63.2 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
- -
Good Eggs
- -
Chamberlain Coffee
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

1,914.77 kb

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

10,422.72 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

4,796.35 kb

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
✅ -1.07

❌ Poor

926.17 kb

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

2,752.47 kb

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
✅ -2.55

✅ Good

2,596.93 kb

⚠️ Fair

Brightland
✅ -2.47

✅ Good

642.17 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -3.3

✅ Good

3,266.72 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 35.47 11.33
Misfits Market
60

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

HighKey
0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
30

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
66

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Ocado
88

❌ Poor

33

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
0

✅ Good

-
Good Eggs
34

⚠️ Fair

24

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
50

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
44

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
0

✅ Good

-
Liquid I.V.
92

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Thrive Market
55

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Brightland
12

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
1

✅ Good

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 275 257 48.31%
Misfits Market
19

✅ Good

41

✅ Good

68.33%
HighKey
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
3

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

90.0%
Kettle & Fire
63

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

4.55%
Ocado
52

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

40.91%
British Corner Shop
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Good Eggs
32

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

5.88%
Chamberlain Coffee
27

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

46.0%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
27

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

38.64%
Outstanding Foods
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Liquid I.V.
17

✅ Good

75

✅ Good

81.52%
Thrive Market
24

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

56.36%
Brightland
11

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

8.33%
Fly by Jing
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%

Ads detected over time

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