Personal Care - 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.

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

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: Mario Badescu leads the personal care industry in email marketing, sending the highest number of emails with a good email scoring. Annmarie and Glossier also perform well in email marketing. Brands like Anese and Black Wolf need to reduce promotional emails.

Email Deliverability Summary: Native excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. Briogeo and Anese also perform well in email deliverability. Mario Badescu needs to improve email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Dr. Squatch dominates in advertising, with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Glossier and Mario Badescu also perform well in advertising. Brands like Bruush and Naturally Serious have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, Mario Badescu is a leader in email marketing within the personal care industry. Native excels in email deliverability. Dr. Squatch dominates in advertising. However, some brands like Bruush and Naturally Serious have limited marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

13.5

Ads published on average

36

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 13.47 54.82%
Native
5

❌ Poor

37.6%

❌ Poor

Briogeo
19

✅ Good

64.95%

✅ Good

Anese
13

⚠️ Fair

58.46%

⚠️ Fair

Mario Badescu
43

✅ Good

40.56%

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
11

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Billie
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dr. Squatch
21

✅ Good

64.05%

✅ Good

Black Wolf
11

❌ Poor

54.73%

⚠️ Fair

Burst Oral Care
7

❌ Poor

72.71%

✅ Good

Blume
9

❌ Poor

66.56%

✅ Good

Annmarie
35

✅ Good

54.86%

⚠️ Fair

Athena Club
6

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Bruush
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Glossier
22

✅ Good

53.68%

⚠️ 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 -1.78 2,942.86 kb
Native
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

3,569.8 kb

❌ Poor

Briogeo
✅ -2.69

✅ Good

1,753.54 kb

✅ Good

Anese
✅ -0.9

❌ Poor

1,710.98 kb

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
✅ -1.62

⚠️ Fair

5,210.98 kb

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
✅ -1.08

❌ Poor

2,400.58 kb

✅ Good

Billie
- -
Dr. Squatch
✅ -2.18

✅ Good

2,954.18 kb

⚠️ Fair

Black Wolf
✅ -0.64

❌ Poor

3,072.83 kb

⚠️ Fair

Burst Oral Care
✅ -2.23

✅ Good

1,136.41 kb

✅ Good

Blume
✅ -2.21

✅ Good

1,227.6 kb

✅ Good

Annmarie
✅ -2.31

✅ Good

1,884.5 kb

✅ Good

Athena Club
✅ -2.22

✅ Good

2,354.47 kb

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
- -
Bruush
- -
Glossier
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

3,438.32 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 35.6 13.73
Native
26

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Briogeo
46

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Anese
35

⚠️ Fair

10

✅ Good

Mario Badescu
52

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

BRAVO SIERRA
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Billie
48

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Dr. Squatch
150

❌ Poor

37

❌ Poor

Black Wolf
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Burst Oral Care
0

✅ Good

-
Blume
28

✅ Good

14

⚠️ Fair

Annmarie
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Athena Club
48

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Naturally Serious
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Bruush
0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
82

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ 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 186 343 64.23%
Native
2

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

92.31%
Briogeo
0

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

100.0%
Anese
31

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

11.43%
Mario Badescu
17

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

65.38%
BRAVO SIERRA
1

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
Billie
31

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

35.42%
Dr. Squatch
19

✅ Good

131

✅ Good

87.33%
Black Wolf
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Burst Oral Care
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Blume
6

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

75.0%
Annmarie
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Athena Club
13

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

68.75%
Naturally Serious
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Bruush
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Glossier
62

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

24.39%

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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