Pet - February - 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

March

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Since the 3rd week of January, there was a remarquable increase in the number of emails sent by pet brands in anticipation of Valentine's Day. During February, Maxbone was the top sender with 27 emails and in terms of advertisements, Petco was the most prolific with 47 new ads, followed by Pets At Home with 43 and Maxbone with 34. These figures indicate a clear effort from these pet brands to capitalize on the Valentine's Day holiday season.

Emails sent on average

9.3

Ads published on average

20

Average Spam Score

2.7

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 9.33 57.96%
Wild One
9

⚠️ Fair

65.67%

✅ Good

West & Willow
8

❌ Poor

59.63%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
26

✅ Good

63.04%

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
11

✅ Good

54.82%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
14

✅ Good

54.36%

⚠️ Fair

Petcube
4

❌ Poor

65.75%

✅ Good

PETKIT
9

⚠️ Fair

70.44%

✅ Good

PetPlate
13

✅ Good

54.0%

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
3

❌ Poor

49.33%

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
16

✅ Good

48.56%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
3

❌ Poor

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

Bark Box
13

✅ Good

55.38%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
5

❌ Poor

57.4%

⚠️ Fair

Incredible Pets
6

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ 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 -2.69 2,064.8 kb
Wild One
✅ -0.36

❌ Poor

1,819.56 kb

✅ Good

West & Willow
✅ -2.43

⚠️ Fair

2,514.81 kb

❌ Poor

Maxbone
✅ -2.21

❌ Poor

2,276.5 kb

❌ Poor

Fable Pets
🟧 0.04

❌ Poor

2,326.97 kb

❌ Poor

Petco
✅ -10.51

✅ Good

1,397.9 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

1,056.13 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -3.79

✅ Good

338.76 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -1.67

❌ Poor

1,831.97 kb

✅ Good

Pets Corner
✅ -2.5

⚠️ Fair

3,400.54 kb

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
- -
Ren's Pets
✅ -2.01

❌ Poor

3,179.78 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -2.6

⚠️ Fair

1,133.79 kb

✅ Good

Bark Box
✅ -2.5

⚠️ Fair

2,151.44 kb

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
✅ -2.64

⚠️ Fair

3,172.13 kb

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

1,470.56 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 20.0 10.2
Wild One
29

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

West & Willow
30

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Maxbone
34

❌ Poor

11

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
13

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Petco
47

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Petcube
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

PETKIT
0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
60

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
17

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
30

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Bark Box
29

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Native Pet
0

✅ Good

-
Incredible Pets
3

✅ 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 114 144 48.0%
Wild One
6

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

75.86%
West & Willow
2

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

70.0%
Maxbone
25

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

14.71%
Fable Pets
7

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

46.15%
Petco
29

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

27.66%
Petcube
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
PETKIT
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
16

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

48.33%
Ren's Pets
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Petlab Co.
0

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

100.0%
Bark Box
17

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

37.93%
Native Pet
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Incredible Pets
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

Ads detected over time

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