Pet Food - April - 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.

Pet Food

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

Pet Food

industry, for the month of

April

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

During April, Kabo sent 15 emails while Made by Nacho sent 14 emails, placing them both in the top ranks for the number of emails sent.

In terms of advertising, Cat Person launched the highest number of new ads with 57, followed by Ziggy and Just Food For Dogs with 44 and 42 respectively. Just Food For Dogs stands out for having used the highest number of ad copies, with 16 unique copies used in its new ads during this period.

Just Food For Dogs' new ads are focused more on images, with 30 new images compared to only 11 new videos, while Cat Person used more videos than images, with 37 new videos compared to 20 new images in its new ads. On the other hand, Ziggy used an equal number of images and videos, with 22 new images and 22 new videos in its new launched ads in this period.

Emails sent on average

5.7

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

1.4

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 5.73 55.28%
Ziggy
5

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Jinx
7

✅ Good

54.43%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
1

❌ Poor

22.0%

❌ Poor

Maev
2

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Nom Nom
2

❌ Poor

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Dandy
7

✅ Good

54.86%

⚠️ Fair

Kabo
15

✅ Good

54.87%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
7

✅ Good

52.57%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
12

✅ Good

51.5%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
2

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

Sundays
3

❌ Poor

57.33%

⚠️ Fair

Butternut Box
3

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Just Food For Dogs
2

❌ Poor

70.5%

✅ Good

A Pup Above
4

❌ Poor

47.75%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
14

✅ Good

64.21%

✅ 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 -1.41 3,024.97 kb
Ziggy
✅ -0.42

❌ Poor

1,367.93 kb

✅ Good

Jinx
✅ -0.21

❌ Poor

2,586.76 kb

✅ Good

Smalls
🟧 1.0

❌ Poor

3,223.68 kb

⚠️ Fair

Maev
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

6,687.98 kb

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,820.61 kb

⚠️ Fair

Dandy
✅ -0.63

❌ Poor

3,104.19 kb

⚠️ Fair

Kabo
✅ -2.51

✅ Good

2,861.96 kb

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
✅ -1.24

❌ Poor

1,629.65 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -1.25

❌ Poor

1,938.1 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,441.98 kb

✅ Good

Sundays
✅ -2.47

✅ Good

1,003.44 kb

✅ Good

Butternut Box
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

8,364.63 kb

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,153.38 kb

✅ Good

A Pup Above
🟧 0.15

❌ Poor

3,846.96 kb

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
✅ -2.02

✅ Good

4,639.52 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 18.87 6.2
Ziggy
44

❌ Poor

7

❌ Poor

Jinx
0

✅ Good

-
Smalls
25

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Maev
19

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Nom Nom
26

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Dandy
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Kabo
0

✅ Good

-
Native Pet
19

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

PetPlate
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Cat Person
57

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Sundays
29

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Butternut Box
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Just Food For Dogs
42

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

A Pup Above
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
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 105 170 60.07%
Ziggy
22

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

50.0%
Jinx
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Smalls
16

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

36.0%
Maev
1

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

89.47%
Nom Nom
8

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

69.23%
Dandy
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Kabo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Native Pet
0

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

68.42%
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Cat Person
20

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

64.91%
Sundays
0

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

100.0%
Butternut Box
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Just Food For Dogs
30

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

26.19%
A Pup Above
8

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

46.67%
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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