Pantry & Groceries - October - 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

October

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, showcasing robust email marketing practices. It sends the highest average number of emails, maintaining a balance between quantity and scoring. Following closely is Flamingo Estate, excelling in email scoring and promotions. British Corner Shop and Brightland exhibit strong performances, while Chamberlain Coffee and Liquid I.V. display consistent and commendable strategies. Misfits Market, GTFO It’s Vegan, Truff, Kettle & Fire, Outstanding Foods, Good Eggs, and HighKey face challenges and need to enhance their email marketing strategies for better overall performance.

Email Deliverability Summary: Ocado and Misfits Market lead in email deliverability, with optimal spam scores and email sizes. Liquid I.V., Chamberlain Coffee, and Flamingo Estate maintain good deliverability, although Chamberlain Coffee and Flamingo Estate need improvement in email size. Thrive Market, Brightland, Fly by Jing, and Good Eggs face challenges and require strategic enhancements in both spam score and email size. Kettle & Fire, Truff, and British Corner Shop lag behind in email size and need to optimize for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Ocado dominates the Pantry & Groceries industry in ads performance, displaying both high velocity and a diverse range of unique copies. Misfits Market and Liquid I.V. also showcase strong ad performances, combining both velocity and unique copies. Chamberlain Coffee, Thrive Market, and Outstanding Foods maintain commendable ad strategies. Flamingo Estate, Kettle & Fire, Truff, British Corner Shop, Fly by Jing, HighKey, GTFO It’s Vegan, Good Eggs, and Brightland face challenges and need to enhance their ads strategies for better overall performance.

Emails sent on average

9.7

Ads published on average

33

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 9.67 58.32%
Misfits Market
8

❌ Poor

43.38%

❌ Poor

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
16

✅ Good

69.19%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
4

❌ Poor

65.75%

✅ Good

Ocado
4

❌ Poor

66.25%

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
15

✅ Good

52.67%

⚠️ Fair

Good Eggs
1

❌ Poor

40.0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
13

✅ Good

69.92%

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
7

❌ Poor

38.57%

❌ Poor

Truff
7

❌ Poor

50.29%

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
4

❌ Poor

42.5%

❌ Poor

Liquid I.V.
11

✅ Good

66.36%

✅ Good

Thrive Market
30

✅ Good

53.23%

⚠️ Fair

Brightland
14

✅ Good

65.86%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
11

✅ Good

63.18%

⚠️ 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 -2.12 2,427.53 kb
Misfits Market
- 1,718.04 kb

✅ Good

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

2,065.81 kb

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
✅ -2.93

✅ Good

6,063.07 kb

❌ Poor

Ocado
✅ -3.55

✅ Good

127.15 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
✅ -1.42

❌ Poor

2,632.8 kb

⚠️ Fair

Good Eggs
🟧 3.7

❌ Poor

1,809.11 kb

✅ Good

Chamberlain Coffee
✅ -1.38

❌ Poor

1,041.29 kb

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
✅ -5.4

✅ Good

10,635.47 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
✅ -3.03

✅ Good

4,021.49 kb

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
🟧 1.05

❌ Poor

1,693.39 kb

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
✅ -2.73

✅ Good

2,262.2 kb

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
✅ -3.71

✅ Good

1,909.92 kb

✅ Good

Brightland
🟧 0.06

❌ Poor

893.72 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -2.18

⚠️ Fair

1,957.26 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 15.67
Misfits Market
90

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

HighKey
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Flamingo Estate
24

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
19

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Ocado
99

❌ Poor

61

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
14

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
51

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
26

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
86

❌ Poor

32

❌ Poor

Thrive Market
34

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Brightland
24

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
11

✅ Good

8

✅ 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 208 283 57.17%
Misfits Market
55

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

38.89%
HighKey
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Flamingo Estate
2

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

91.67%
Kettle & Fire
7

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

63.16%
Ocado
51

✅ Good

44

✅ Good

44.44%
British Corner Shop
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

14.29%
Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
14

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

72.55%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
3

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

80.0%
Outstanding Foods
12

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

53.85%
Liquid I.V.
38

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

55.81%
Thrive Market
1

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

97.06%
Brightland
10

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

58.33%
Fly by Jing
1

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

90.91%

Ads detected over time

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