Pet - December - 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

December

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

Email Marketing Overview: In the dynamic Pet industry, the past month witnessed a substantial email uptick, averaging 17.67 per brand. Petco takes the lead, sending a remarkable 73 emails with exceptional performance and promotions. Ren's Pets follows with commendable engagement, but struggles with promotions, presenting an area for improvement. Wild One's strategy, although frequent, lacks desired engagement and promotions, putting it in a fair performance category. Executives are advised to focus on refining email content for optimal engagement and promotions to maximize impact.

Email Deliverability Insights: Deliverability remains robust across the industry, with notable variations. Petco leads with an impressive -9.1 spam score, coupled with an efficient email size strategy. PETKIT also stands out, excelling in spam score, though facing challenges with email size. Wild One's deliverability is compromised with a suboptimal spam score and large email size. Executives should prioritize enhancing deliverability for brands facing challenges to ensure consistent, reliable communication with customers.

Ads Performance: Advertising in the Pet sector surged, averaging 37.93 ads per brand. Bark Box dominates with a staggering 127 ads and a diverse mix of images and videos, securing a leading position in advertising diversity. Petlab Co. follows closely, excelling in both volume and variety. Conversely, Pets Corner struggles, lacking in both ad volume and diversity. Executives are urged to diversify advertising content and volume to maintain a competitive edge in the bustling Pet industry.

Emails sent on average

16.0

Ads published on average

36

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 16.0 57.98%
Wild One
5

❌ Poor

64.6%

✅ Good

West & Willow
21

✅ Good

58.9%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
16

⚠️ Fair

63.06%

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
12

❌ Poor

59.42%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
69

✅ Good

65.0%

✅ Good

Petcube
8

❌ Poor

61.63%

⚠️ Fair

PETKIT
9

❌ Poor

36.0%

❌ Poor

PetPlate
13

❌ Poor

54.23%

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
1

❌ Poor

42.0%

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
1

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ren's Pets
23

✅ Good

48.7%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
6

❌ Poor

50.67%

❌ Poor

Bark Box
34

✅ Good

54.94%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
12

❌ Poor

55.58%

⚠️ Fair

Incredible Pets
10

❌ Poor

56.6%

⚠️ 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 -3.95 1,710.88 kb
Wild One
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

2,334.56 kb

❌ Poor

West & Willow
✅ -0.9

❌ Poor

1,898.91 kb

❌ Poor

Maxbone
✅ -2.53

❌ Poor

1,660.48 kb

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
🟧 0.02

❌ Poor

1,504.74 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -9.28

✅ Good

806.14 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -1.85

❌ Poor

1,031.33 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -2.11

❌ Poor

4,774.66 kb

❌ Poor

PetPlate
✅ -2.71

❌ Poor

1,712.88 kb

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
- 4,315.54 kb

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
- 44.91 kb

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
✅ -3.14

❌ Poor

3,294.4 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -3.1

❌ Poor

1,919.66 kb

❌ Poor

Bark Box
✅ -2.19

❌ Poor

1,631.54 kb

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
✅ -0.64

❌ Poor

2,402.2 kb

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
✅ -1.93

❌ Poor

937.5 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 35.73 14.27
Wild One
28

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

West & Willow
22

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Maxbone
11

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Fable Pets
23

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Petco
30

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Petcube
20

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

PETKIT
62

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

PetPlate
20

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
77

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
120

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Bark Box
99

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
14

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
0

✅ 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 229 307 57.28%
Wild One
9

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

67.86%
West & Willow
1

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

95.45%
Maxbone
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

27.27%
Fable Pets
12

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

47.83%
Petco
16

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

46.67%
Petcube
0

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

100.0%
PETKIT
57

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

8.06%
PetPlate
4

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

80.0%
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
51

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

33.77%
Ren's Pets
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Petlab Co.
14

✅ Good

106

✅ Good

88.33%
Bark Box
46

✅ Good

53

✅ Good

53.54%
Native Pet
1

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

92.86%
Incredible Pets
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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