Pantry & Groceries - September - 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

September

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 leads the Pantry & Groceries industry in email marketing with the highest number of emails sent and good email scoring. However, it needs to work on reducing the percentage of promotions. British Corner Shop also performs well in email marketing with good email scoring, but it should reduce promotions. Brands like Flamingo Estate and Brightland have good email scores and minimal promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Ocado excels in email deliverability with the best average spam score and optimized email size. Flamingo Estate also performs well in email deliverability with a good spam score and email size. On the other hand, Chamberlain Coffee needs to improve its email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Ocado leads in advertising with the highest number of new ads detected and a good unique copy performance. Chamberlain Coffee and Misfits Market also perform well in advertising. Brands like Good Eggs and GTFO It’s Vegan need to focus more on their advertising efforts.

In summary, Thrive Market dominates email marketing, while Ocado excels in email deliverability and advertising. British Corner Shop and Flamingo Estate also perform well in email marketing and deliverability, respectively. Brands like Chamberlain Coffee and GTFO It’s Vegan need to improve in multiple areas to compete effectively.

Emails sent on average

11.3

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

2.2

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 11.27 57.36%
Misfits Market
9

❌ Poor

44.78%

❌ Poor

HighKey
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo Estate
16

✅ Good

80.25%

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
6

❌ Poor

56.67%

⚠️ Fair

Ocado
4

❌ Poor

59.25%

⚠️ Fair

British Corner Shop
18

✅ Good

49.67%

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Chamberlain Coffee
15

✅ Good

61.53%

⚠️ Fair

GTFO It’s Vegan
17

✅ Good

40.18%

❌ Poor

Truff
7

❌ Poor

50.86%

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
9

❌ Poor

63.78%

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
13

✅ Good

62.92%

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
30

✅ Good

48.73%

❌ Poor

Brightland
14

✅ Good

68.64%

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
11

⚠️ Fair

68.91%

✅ 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 -2.15 2,840.48 kb
Misfits Market
- 1,517.45 kb

✅ Good

HighKey
- -
Flamingo Estate
✅ -3.11

✅ Good

1,048.76 kb

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

5,101.23 kb

❌ Poor

Ocado
✅ -3.55

✅ Good

303.91 kb

✅ Good

British Corner Shop
✅ -2.92

✅ Good

3,477.58 kb

❌ Poor

Good Eggs
- -
Chamberlain Coffee
🟧 0.27

❌ Poor

1,260.97 kb

✅ Good

GTFO It’s Vegan
✅ -2.0

⚠️ Fair

6,848.07 kb

❌ Poor

Truff
✅ -2.64

✅ Good

4,335.19 kb

❌ Poor

Outstanding Foods
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

3,653.74 kb

❌ Poor

Liquid I.V.
✅ -2.78

✅ Good

3,074.84 kb

⚠️ Fair

Thrive Market
✅ -2.99

✅ Good

3,031.91 kb

⚠️ Fair

Brightland
✅ -0.42

❌ Poor

1,040.69 kb

✅ Good

Fly by Jing
✅ -2.14

⚠️ Fair

1,011.17 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 25.27 11.13
Misfits Market
50

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

HighKey
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Flamingo Estate
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Kettle & Fire
38

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Ocado
83

❌ Poor

62

❌ Poor

British Corner Shop
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
63

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

-
Truff
0

✅ Good

-
Outstanding Foods
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Liquid I.V.
42

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Thrive Market
45

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Brightland
24

⚠️ Fair

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 164 210 55.41%
Misfits Market
24

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

52.0%
HighKey
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Flamingo Estate
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

23.08%
Kettle & Fire
24

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

36.84%
Ocado
30

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

63.86%
British Corner Shop
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Good Eggs
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Chamberlain Coffee
19

✅ Good

44

✅ Good

69.84%
GTFO It’s Vegan
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Truff
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Outstanding Foods
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Liquid I.V.
19

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

52.38%
Thrive Market
17

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

62.22%
Brightland
9

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

62.5%
Fly by Jing
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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