Pantry & Groceries - March - 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

September

2024

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In March 2024, Thrive Market led the pantry and groceries sector, excelling across all metrics with a success score of 75.1%. Its organic traffic hit 447,614, backed by a domain rating of 79 and the most backlinks. Chamberlain Coffee, with the highest ad score at 99.58%, also performed well in emails and growth. Liquid I.V. was a strong contender, posting significant scores in email and ads while achieving the highest organic traffic at 253,324.

Misfits Market, Fly by Jing, and Brightland were next in line, each demonstrating balanced performances across email, ads, and organic traffic. Misfits Market recorded 123,499 in organic traffic, while Fly by Jing showed strength in ad creatives. Brightland exhibited solid ad performance and scored 79.54% overall. Kettle & Fire also performed above average, particularly in advertising.

Lagging behind were brands like HighKey, GTFO It’s Vegan, and Outstanding Foods, all with low success scores. HighKey registered almost no performance in ads, while GTFO It’s Vegan scored zero in advertising metrics. Similarly, Outstanding Foods displayed poor performance across all categories, making it one of the lowest performers in the group.

Emails sent on average

8.3

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

1.4

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 8.27 54.28%
Misfits Market
8

⚠️ Fair

50.25%

⚠️ Fair

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
6

❌ Poor

61.17%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
7

❌ Poor

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ocado
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
20

✅ Good

56.8%

⚠️ Fair

GTFO It’s Vegan
5

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Truff
6

❌ Poor

64.83%

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
3

❌ Poor

43.33%

❌ Poor

Liquid I.V.
15

✅ Good

57.07%

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
29

✅ Good

44.07%

❌ Poor

Brightland
12

✅ Good

72.42%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
12

✅ Good

46.83%

❌ Poor

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 -1.35 2,693.11 kb
Misfits Market
✅ -1.8

✅ Good

1,574.02 kb

✅ Good

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -2.4

✅ Good

2,971.79 kb

❌ Poor

Kettle & Fire
🟧 0.2

❌ Poor

1,312.25 kb

✅ Good

Ocado
- 18.01 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
- -
Good Eggs
- -
Chamberlain Coffee
✅ -0.54

❌ Poor

4,360.1 kb

❌ Poor

GTFO It’s Vegan
✅ -0.73

❌ Poor

3,948.62 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
✅ -1.25

⚠️ Fair

1,798.47 kb

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

2,555.43 kb

⚠️ Fair

Liquid I.V.
✅ -1.51

✅ Good

3,529.51 kb

❌ Poor

Thrive Market
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

2,482.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

Brightland
✅ -2.05

✅ Good

1,347.54 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,317.89 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 18.73 7.2
Misfits Market
36

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

HighKey
0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
11

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Ocado
30

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
64

❌ Poor

24

❌ Poor

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
20

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
51

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Thrive Market
55

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Brightland
9

✅ Good

2

✅ 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 114 167 59.43%
Misfits Market
13

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

63.89%
HighKey
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Kettle & Fire
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

27.27%
Ocado
11

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

63.33%
British Corner Shop
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
37

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

42.19%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
20

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Outstanding Foods
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Liquid I.V.
16

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

68.63%
Thrive Market
2

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

96.36%
Brightland
5

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

44.44%
Fly by Jing
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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