Personal Care - 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.

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

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: In the personal care industry, Annmarie leads the way with a robust email marketing strategy. They send a high volume of emails with a balanced focus on scoring and promotions. Mario Badescu also performs well but needs improvement in email scoring. Glossier is solid but could boost its promotion rates. Briogeo demonstrates a strong strategy with a focus on both email scoring and promotions. Brands like Dr. Squatch, Anese, Blume, and BRAVO SIERRA need to enhance their email strategies to compete effectively. Black Wolf, Native, Burst Oral Care, Athena Club, and Billie lag behind and should reevaluate their email marketing approaches.

Email Deliverability Summary: Native excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and email size. Briogeo is another strong performer in this category, with optimal spam scores and email sizes. Mario Badescu follows but should improve email size and spam scores. BRAVO SIERRA and Anese achieve good spam scores but need to work on email size optimization. Dr. Squatch and Black Wolf have room for enhancement in both areas. Brands like Burst Oral Care, Blume, Annmarie, and Athena Club should significantly improve their email deliverability practices. Billie, Naturally Serious, and Bruush need to develop a strategy from scratch in this aspect.

Ads Performance Summary: Glossier takes the lead in advertising performance with a high number of new ads and a diverse range of unique copies. Black Wolf and Billie are strong contenders, displaying good ad velocity and unique ad copies. Briogeo also excels with impressive ad performance. However, Native, Mario Badescu, Athena Club, Burst Oral Care, and Blume need improvements in their advertising strategies to stay competitive in the personal care industry. BRAVO SIERRA, Anese, Annmarie, and Dr. Squatch lag behind in ad performance, requiring significant changes to enhance their advertising strategies.

Emails sent on average

12.7

Ads published on average

25

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 12.67 59.34%
Native
8

❌ Poor

53.5%

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
18

✅ Good

68.89%

✅ Good

Anese
16

✅ Good

59.44%

⚠️ Fair

Mario Badescu
34

✅ Good

47.53%

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
12

⚠️ Fair

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

Billie
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dr. Squatch
16

✅ Good

61.56%

⚠️ Fair

Black Wolf
9

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
5

❌ Poor

70.8%

✅ Good

Blume
12

⚠️ Fair

65.17%

⚠️ Fair

Annmarie
35

✅ Good

60.63%

⚠️ Fair

Athena Club
4

❌ Poor

62.25%

⚠️ Fair

Naturally Serious
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Bruush
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Glossier
21

✅ Good

59.05%

⚠️ 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 -2.13 2,060.17 kb
Native
✅ -1.94

⚠️ Fair

2,366.15 kb

❌ Poor

Briogeo
✅ -3.11

✅ Good

1,270.59 kb

✅ Good

Anese
✅ -1.19

❌ Poor

1,580.68 kb

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
✅ -2.31

⚠️ Fair

2,171.69 kb

⚠️ Fair

BRAVO SIERRA
✅ -1.11

❌ Poor

1,896.99 kb

⚠️ Fair

Billie
- -
Dr. Squatch
✅ -1.91

❌ Poor

5,276.75 kb

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
✅ -2.68

✅ Good

2,500.82 kb

❌ Poor

Burst Oral Care
✅ -1.1

❌ Poor

1,864.32 kb

⚠️ Fair

Blume
✅ -1.08

❌ Poor

1,371.33 kb

✅ Good

Annmarie
✅ -3.66

✅ Good

1,309.17 kb

✅ Good

Athena Club
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

1,222.51 kb

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
- -
Bruush
- -
Glossier
✅ -1.13

❌ Poor

2,110.29 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 24.93 9.0
Native
38

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Briogeo
38

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Anese
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
34

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Billie
49

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Dr. Squatch
0

✅ Good

-
Black Wolf
53

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Burst Oral Care
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Blume
12

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Annmarie
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Athena Club
24

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
0

✅ Good

-
Bruush
0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
89

❌ Poor

23

❌ 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 149 224 59.89%
Native
21

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

44.74%
Briogeo
2

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

94.74%
Anese
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%
Mario Badescu
15

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

55.88%
BRAVO SIERRA
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Billie
36

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

26.53%
Dr. Squatch
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Black Wolf
9

✅ Good

44

✅ Good

83.02%
Burst Oral Care
0

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

100.0%
Blume
4

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

66.67%
Annmarie
0

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

100.0%
Athena Club
5

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

79.17%
Naturally Serious
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Bruush
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
49

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

44.94%

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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