Pantry & Groceries - November - 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

November

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 Summary: Thrive Market emerges as the leader in the Pantry & Groceries industry, sending a high volume of emails with a good overall performance. Brightland follows closely, demonstrating excellence in email scoring but with room for reducing promotional content. Brands like Misfits Market and Kettle & Fire need improvement, especially in email scoring and promotional strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: Ocado secures the top position in email deliverability, ensuring optimized sizes and a commendable spam score. Brands like Misfits Market and Liquid I.V. also perform well in this regard. However, brands such as Thrive Market and Brightland face challenges in maintaining good spam scores and need improvement in email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Ocado dominates the advertising space, publishing a high number of diverse ads with engaging content. Misfits Market and Brightland also perform well in this domain. On the contrary, Thrive Market and Kettle & Fire lag behind in their advertising efforts, while brands like Truff and GTFO It’s Vegan show limited activity in this aspect.

Emails sent on average

10.1

Ads published on average

33

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 10.13 55.98%
Misfits Market
9

❌ Poor

45.11%

❌ Poor

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
15

✅ Good

69.6%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
6

❌ Poor

50.5%

⚠️ Fair

Ocado
1

❌ Poor

34.0%

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
15

✅ Good

47.93%

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
15

✅ Good

61.27%

⚠️ Fair

GTFO It’s Vegan
2

❌ Poor

39.0%

❌ Poor

Truff
13

✅ Good

44.69%

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
5

❌ Poor

61.2%

⚠️ Fair

Liquid I.V.
12

✅ Good

63.17%

✅ Good

Thrive Market
30

✅ Good

50.07%

❌ Poor

Brightland
15

✅ Good

65.33%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
14

✅ Good

62.79%

✅ 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 -1.88 2,638.06 kb
Misfits Market
- 2,297.44 kb

✅ Good

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -1.23

❌ Poor

1,497.76 kb

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
✅ -1.22

❌ Poor

1,988.98 kb

✅ Good

Ocado
🟧 0.1

❌ Poor

74.56 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
✅ -2.18

✅ Good

4,461.38 kb

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
- -
Chamberlain Coffee
✅ -0.07

❌ Poor

1,957.03 kb

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
- 11,044.3 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
✅ -2.27

✅ Good

3,813.4 kb

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
🟧 0.5

❌ Poor

1,389.34 kb

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
✅ -1.73

⚠️ Fair

1,943.55 kb

✅ Good

Thrive Market
✅ -3.08

✅ Good

3,645.34 kb

❌ Poor

Brightland
✅ -1.46

❌ Poor

725.13 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -3.35

✅ Good

1,956.25 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 33.0 13.73
Misfits Market
111

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

HighKey
0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
27

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
13

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Ocado
120

❌ Poor

38

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
47

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
44

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
36

⚠️ Fair

10

✅ Good

Thrive Market
16

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Brightland
53

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
25

✅ Good

12

✅ 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 263 232 46.87%
Misfits Market
63

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

43.24%
HighKey
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Flamingo Estate
1

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

96.3%
Kettle & Fire
2

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%
Ocado
80

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

33.33%
British Corner Shop
33

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

29.79%
Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
23

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

47.73%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Outstanding Foods
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Liquid I.V.
24

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

33.33%
Thrive Market
0

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

100.0%
Brightland
35

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

33.96%
Fly by Jing
2

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

92.0%

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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