Pet - February - 2024


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

April

2024

. 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 Performance: Petco emerges as the leader in email marketing, demonstrating exceptional performance by sending 21 emails with a high email scoring and a significant percentage of promotions, showcasing effective email campaign management and engagement strategies. Bark Box closely follows with 22 emails sent, boasting a good email scoring, although with a fair percentage of promotions, suggesting potential optimizations for promotional content. Incredible Pets showcases strong email marketing performance with 19 emails sent, displaying a good email scoring despite a fair percentage of promotions, indicating effective content delivery and engagement strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Wild One exhibits poor email deliverability with a large email size, suggesting potential challenges in content optimization and inbox placement. West & Willow displays mixed results in email deliverability, showcasing a fair spam score and email size, suggesting potential areas for improvement in email content and management practices. Maxbone demonstrates subpar email deliverability with a fair spam score and a large email size, indicating potential challenges in content optimization and inbox placement.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Petco stands out in advertising impact and diversity, with 96 impactful ads demonstrating both volume and variety in content, highlighting its robust market presence in the pet brands industry. Bark Box closely follows with 49 impactful ads, showcasing a strong advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively positioning itself in the competitive market. Petcube maintains a solid advertising impact with 41 impactful ads, although with limited diversity in new images, suggesting potential areas for content variation and innovation.

Emails sent on average

10.3

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

3.4

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 10.33 59.14%
Wild One
3

❌ Poor

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

West & Willow
3

❌ Poor

54.67%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
9

❌ Poor

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
12

✅ Good

75.08%

✅ Good

Petco
21

✅ Good

65.24%

✅ Good

Petcube
6

❌ Poor

66.33%

✅ Good

PETKIT
9

❌ Poor

43.0%

❌ Poor

PetPlate
16

✅ Good

60.25%

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
2

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Pets at Home
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
17

✅ Good

44.88%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
1

❌ Poor

32.0%

❌ Poor

Bark Box
22

✅ Good

57.36%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
15

✅ Good

67.8%

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
19

✅ Good

56.68%

⚠️ 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 -3.35 1,810.59 kb
Wild One
- 4,324.28 kb

❌ Poor

West & Willow
✅ -3.33

⚠️ Fair

2,210.33 kb

❌ Poor

Maxbone
✅ -2.34

❌ Poor

2,412.76 kb

❌ Poor

Fable Pets
✅ -2.83

❌ Poor

637.68 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -10.95

✅ Good

705.81 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

990.17 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -2.81

❌ Poor

4,314.93 kb

❌ Poor

PetPlate
✅ -3.17

⚠️ Fair

1,990.22 kb

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
✅ -3.4

⚠️ Fair

1,174.03 kb

✅ Good

Pets at Home
- -
Ren's Pets
✅ -1.48

❌ Poor

3,743.59 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,875.3 kb

⚠️ Fair

Bark Box
✅ -1.8

❌ Poor

1,467.82 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
✅ -1.23

❌ Poor

1,133.13 kb

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
✅ -2.53

❌ Poor

1,214.54 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 26.67 10.67
Wild One
33

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

West & Willow
28

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Maxbone
16

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Fable Pets
22

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Petco
96

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Petcube
41

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

PETKIT
26

⚠️ Fair

13

❌ Poor

PetPlate
10

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

-
Pets at Home
22

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
0

✅ Good

-
Petlab Co.
36

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Bark Box
49

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Native Pet
21

✅ Good

8

✅ 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 180 220 55.0%
Wild One
16

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

51.52%
West & Willow
0

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

100.0%
Maxbone
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

25.0%
Fable Pets
6

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

72.73%
Petco
77

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

19.79%
Petcube
1

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

97.56%
PETKIT
9

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

65.38%
PetPlate
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets at Home
7

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

68.18%
Ren's Pets
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Petlab Co.
3

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

91.67%
Bark Box
34

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

30.61%
Native Pet
11

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

47.62%
Incredible Pets
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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