Pet - 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.

Pets

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

Pets

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, Petco led the way in emails with 27, while Ren's Pets secured the second position with 16 promotional emails.

Shifting to advertising, Petlab Co. and Petco continued to dominate, creating 106 and 86 new ads respectively this month. Notably, Petlab Co. utilized the highest number of ad copies (64) compared to all the benchmark brands.

Regarding media usage in their new ads, both Petlab Co. and Petco emphasized videos over images. Petlab Co. featured 101 videos alongside a single image, while Petco employed 45 videos in contrast to 33 images.

Emails sent on average

7.4

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

4.0

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 7.4 59.14%
Wild One
2

❌ Poor

75.5%

✅ Good

West & Willow
1

❌ Poor

84.0%

✅ Good

Maxbone
14

✅ Good

67.07%

✅ Good

Fable Pets
10

✅ Good

64.5%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
27

✅ Good

60.33%

⚠️ Fair

Petcube
2

❌ Poor

65.0%

⚠️ Fair

PETKIT
8

⚠️ Fair

59.13%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
8

⚠️ Fair

49.38%

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
1

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
16

✅ Good

48.69%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
5

❌ Poor

62.8%

⚠️ Fair

Bark Box
3

❌ Poor

51.67%

❌ Poor

Native Pet
12

✅ Good

54.42%

⚠️ Fair

Incredible Pets
2

❌ Poor

85.0%

✅ 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 -4.04 2,419.57 kb
Wild One
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

615.81 kb

✅ Good

West & Willow
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

38.23 kb

✅ Good

Maxbone
✅ -3.85

⚠️ Fair

2,140.28 kb

✅ Good

Fable Pets
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

1,453.33 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -9.56

✅ Good

1,035.23 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -5.5

✅ Good

948.32 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -4.53

✅ Good

1,985.72 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -1.25

❌ Poor

2,378.68 kb

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
✅ -5.8

✅ Good

2,443.27 kb

⚠️ Fair

Pets At Home
- -
Ren's Pets
✅ -1.66

❌ Poor

3,778.0 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -3.1

❌ Poor

1,800.41 kb

✅ Good

Bark Box
✅ -1.67

❌ Poor

2,148.18 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
✅ -0.31

❌ Poor

6,640.28 kb

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
✅ -4.4

⚠️ Fair

10.62 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 27.0 13.87
Wild One
19

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

West & Willow
31

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Maxbone
0

✅ Good

-
Fable Pets
31

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ Fair

Petco
86

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Petcube
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

PETKIT
0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

-
Pets Corner
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Pets At Home
37

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
26

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
106

❌ Poor

46

❌ Poor

Bark Box
48

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Native Pet
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

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 145 218 53.83%
Wild One
7

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

52.63%
West & Willow
3

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

64.52%
Maxbone
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Fable Pets
14

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

54.84%
Petco
33

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

52.33%
Petcube
0

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

100.0%
PETKIT
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Pets At Home
25

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

8.11%
Ren's Pets
11

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

3.85%
Petlab Co.
5

✅ Good

101

✅ Good

95.28%
Bark Box
45

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

4.17%
Native Pet
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
Incredible Pets
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%

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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