Personal Care - August - 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.

Personal Care

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Personal Care

industry, for the month of

August

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In August, Mario Badescu sent the most emails, totaling 42, while Annmarie followed with 36 emails.

Regarding advertisements, Native ranked first by publishing 81 new ads, and Briogeo came after with 70 new ads. Mario Badescu led in using the most different ad versions (33).

In terms of ad approach, Native focused more on videos, while Briogeo used more images compared to videos. Specifically, Native had 65 videos and 16 videos, whereas Briogeo used 63 videos and just 6 images.

Emails sent on average

13.9

Ads published on average

48

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 13.93 54.62%
Native
5

❌ Poor

44.6%

❌ Poor

Briogeo
18

✅ Good

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Anese
19

✅ Good

51.84%

⚠️ Fair

Mario Badescu
42

✅ Good

38.33%

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
15

⚠️ Fair

59.2%

⚠️ Fair

Billie
2

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

Dr. Squatch
17

✅ Good

69.12%

✅ Good

Black Wolf
9

❌ Poor

58.33%

⚠️ Fair

Burst Oral Care
5

❌ Poor

74.8%

✅ Good

Blume
9

❌ Poor

67.78%

✅ Good

Annmarie
37

✅ Good

56.78%

⚠️ Fair

Athena Club
4

❌ Poor

76.75%

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
3

❌ Poor

66.67%

✅ Good

Bruush
1

❌ Poor

74.0%

✅ Good

Glossier
23

✅ Good

49.7%

⚠️ 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 -1.93 2,721.54 kb
Native
✅ -0.4

❌ Poor

2,907.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
✅ -1.84

⚠️ Fair

1,778.29 kb

✅ Good

Anese
✅ -0.84

❌ Poor

1,727.62 kb

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
✅ -1.66

❌ Poor

5,314.17 kb

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
✅ -2.33

✅ Good

2,548.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Billie
✅ -4.25

✅ Good

3,783.77 kb

❌ Poor

Dr. Squatch
✅ -3.01

✅ Good

3,368.13 kb

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

3,535.61 kb

❌ Poor

Burst Oral Care
✅ -4.1

✅ Good

1,222.68 kb

✅ Good

Blume
✅ -2.28

✅ Good

1,219.67 kb

✅ Good

Annmarie
✅ -2.81

✅ Good

1,257.05 kb

✅ Good

Athena Club
✅ -1.8

⚠️ Fair

686.38 kb

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

651.95 kb

✅ Good

Bruush
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

20.46 kb

✅ Good

Glossier
✅ -0.47

❌ Poor

2,740.96 kb

⚠️ Fair

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 48.13 15.93
Native
81

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Briogeo
70

❌ Poor

18

❌ Poor

Anese
72

❌ Poor

16

⚠️ Fair

Mario Badescu
51

⚠️ Fair

20

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Billie
63

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Dr. Squatch
106

❌ Poor

17

⚠️ Fair

Black Wolf
36

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
78

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Blume
47

⚠️ Fair

15

⚠️ Fair

Annmarie
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Athena Club
16

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
6

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Bruush
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Glossier
84

❌ Poor

15

⚠️ Fair

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 344 373 51.66%
Native
65

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

19.75%
Briogeo
6

✅ Good

63

✅ Good

90.0%
Anese
54

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

25.0%
Mario Badescu
25

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

47.06%
BRAVO SIERRA
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Billie
30

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

50.79%
Dr. Squatch
8

✅ Good

98

✅ Good

92.45%
Black Wolf
26

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

27.78%
Burst Oral Care
45

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

42.31%
Blume
20

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

55.32%
Annmarie
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

33.33%
Athena Club
3

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

81.25%
Naturally Serious
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Bruush
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Glossier
56

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

33.33%

Ads detected over time

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