Personal Care - 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.

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

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 Overview: In the realm of personal care, Annmarie takes the lead, sending an impressive 15.07 emails on average. Mario Badescu and Glossier follow closely, demonstrating robust performance in both frequency and email scoring. Notably, Dr. Squatch, despite sending fewer emails, maintains high email scoring. However, Native and Billie struggle, sending fewer emails with compromised scores. The competition is fierce, with brands employing diverse strategies to engage their audience.

Email Deliverability Insights: Native and Briogeo shine in email deliverability with impressive spam scores of -0.6 and -1.27, respectively. On the flip side, Billie and Dr. Squatch grapple with higher email sizes, affecting deliverability. Annmarie and Glossier showcase good practices, ensuring emails are optimized for delivery, whereas Athena Club faces challenges in this regard. Brands need to balance content richness with email optimization for better reach and engagement.

Ads Performance Snapshot: Glossier stands out in advertising, with 221 unique copies and a diverse range of images and videos. Dr. Squatch and Native also excel in ad velocity, maintaining a good balance between images and videos. In contrast, Annmarie and Mario Badescu lag in this aspect, requiring a more varied advertising strategy. The industry emphasizes the need for dynamic and diverse ad content to capture and retain consumer attention.

Emails sent on average

15.1

Ads published on average

52

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 15.07 59.5%
Native
5

❌ Poor

43.2%

❌ Poor

Briogeo
26

✅ Good

61.31%

⚠️ Fair

Anese
9

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Mario Badescu
37

✅ Good

47.86%

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
14

⚠️ Fair

61.86%

⚠️ Fair

Billie
4

❌ Poor

54.5%

⚠️ Fair

Dr. Squatch
17

✅ Good

61.29%

⚠️ Fair

Black Wolf
14

⚠️ Fair

73.79%

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
11

❌ Poor

67.36%

✅ Good

Blume
11

❌ Poor

63.36%

⚠️ Fair

Annmarie
38

✅ Good

54.21%

⚠️ Fair

Athena Club
8

❌ Poor

70.38%

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
3

❌ Poor

51.33%

❌ Poor

Bruush
1

❌ Poor

71.0%

✅ Good

Glossier
28

✅ Good

68.46%

✅ 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 -1.92 1,825.84 kb
Native
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

3,122.89 kb

❌ Poor

Briogeo
✅ -1.27

❌ Poor

1,085.14 kb

✅ Good

Anese
✅ -2.3

✅ Good

1,627.83 kb

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
✅ -2.57

✅ Good

2,329.58 kb

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
✅ -2.36

✅ Good

2,526.77 kb

❌ Poor

Billie
✅ -0.8

❌ Poor

1,833.26 kb

⚠️ Fair

Dr. Squatch
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

4,787.73 kb

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
✅ -1.99

⚠️ Fair

692.72 kb

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
✅ -2.68

✅ Good

725.48 kb

✅ Good

Blume
✅ -0.43

❌ Poor

1,266.79 kb

✅ Good

Annmarie
✅ -3.15

✅ Good

1,552.43 kb

✅ Good

Athena Club
✅ -2.44

✅ Good

2,141.12 kb

❌ Poor

Naturally Serious
- 1,081.71 kb

✅ Good

Bruush
- 20.45 kb

✅ Good

Glossier
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

1,173.86 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 52.33 15.33
Native
99

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Briogeo
83

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ Fair

Anese
38

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
0

✅ Good

-
BRAVO SIERRA
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Billie
29

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Dr. Squatch
150

❌ Poor

48

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
61

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Blume
43

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Annmarie
0

✅ Good

-
Athena Club
34

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Bruush
0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
221

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

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 292 493 62.8%
Native
54

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

45.45%
Briogeo
41

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

50.6%
Anese
17

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

55.26%
Mario Badescu
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
BRAVO SIERRA
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

28.57%
Billie
19

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

34.48%
Dr. Squatch
27

✅ Good

123

✅ Good

82.0%
Black Wolf
3

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

76.92%
Burst Oral Care
13

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

78.69%
Blume
20

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

53.49%
Annmarie
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Athena Club
2

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

94.12%
Naturally Serious
1

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

85.71%
Bruush
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
90

✅ Good

131

✅ Good

59.28%

Ads detected over time

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