Personal Care - May - 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

May

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

During May, Annmarie and Mario Badescu maintained their leading positions again. Annemarie sent 44 emails and Mario Badescu in the second position with 40 emails, of which a notable 90% were promotional.

In terms of ads, Dr. Squatch is again the leader with a total of 59 new ads. Followed by Blume with 53 new ads and the highest number of ad copies used with a total of 37 used in May's ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Dr. Squatch and Blume's ones are different. Dr. Squatch is focused more on videos with 40 new videos versus 19 new images, while Blume opted more for images in its new ads with 35 images versus only 13 videos.

Emails sent on average

14.2

Ads published on average

28

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 14.2 56.46%
Native
5

❌ Poor

42.8%

❌ Poor

Briogeo
23

✅ Good

68.83%

✅ Good

Anese
14

⚠️ Fair

60.57%

⚠️ Fair

Mario Badescu
40

✅ Good

43.85%

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
10

❌ Poor

57.1%

⚠️ Fair

Billie
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dr. Squatch
14

⚠️ Fair

62.14%

✅ Good

Black Wolf
11

❌ Poor

59.55%

⚠️ Fair

Burst Oral Care
6

❌ Poor

56.17%

⚠️ Fair

Blume
16

✅ Good

61.69%

⚠️ Fair

Annmarie
44

✅ Good

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Athena Club
4

❌ Poor

56.25%

⚠️ Fair

Naturally Serious
6

❌ Poor

57.17%

⚠️ Fair

Bruush
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Glossier
20

✅ Good

45.55%

❌ 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 -1.9 2,474.57 kb
Native
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

2,074.74 kb

✅ Good

Briogeo
✅ -1.47

❌ Poor

940.32 kb

✅ Good

Anese
✅ -1.08

❌ Poor

1,410.59 kb

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

5,494.6 kb

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
✅ -2.0

⚠️ Fair

2,488.01 kb

⚠️ Fair

Billie
- -
Dr. Squatch
✅ -1.55

❌ Poor

3,107.87 kb

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
✅ -1.15

❌ Poor

1,733.2 kb

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
✅ -0.75

❌ Poor

1,153.92 kb

✅ Good

Blume
✅ -0.63

❌ Poor

1,102.29 kb

✅ Good

Annmarie
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

994.22 kb

✅ Good

Athena Club
🟧 1.05

❌ Poor

1,108.7 kb

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
✅ -3.42

✅ Good

716.4 kb

✅ Good

Bruush
- -
Glossier
🟧 0.28

❌ Poor

4,552.8 kb

❌ Poor

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 28.07 12.8
Native
47

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Briogeo
35

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Anese
38

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
9

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

BRAVO SIERRA
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Billie
45

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Dr. Squatch
59

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
52

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
0

✅ Good

-
Blume
53

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Annmarie
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Athena Club
21

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Bruush
0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
46

❌ Poor

13

⚠️ 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 214 199 47.27%
Native
32

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

27.66%
Briogeo
4

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

88.57%
Anese
33

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

13.16%
Mario Badescu
3

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

55.56%
BRAVO SIERRA
4

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

55.56%
Billie
25

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

44.44%
Dr. Squatch
19

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

67.8%
Black Wolf
9

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

82.69%
Burst Oral Care
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Blume
35

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

24.53%
Annmarie
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
Athena Club
7

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

66.67%
Naturally Serious
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Bruush
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
41

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

10.87%

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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