Pet Food - 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.

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

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, Made by Nacho claimed the top spot in emails with 14, closely followed by Native Pet with 12 emails.

Shifting focus to advertising, Cat Person and Just Food For Dogs once again took the lead this month, creating 101 and 73 new ads respectively.

Examining their ad strategy, Cat Person gave prominence to videos, whereas Just Food For Dogs leaned towards images over videos. Cat Person utilized 75 videos alongside 26 images, while Just Food For Dogs employed 46 images in comparison to 25 videos.

Emails sent on average

3.8

Ads published on average

29

Average Spam Score

0.7

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 3.8 53.93%
Ziggy
5

✅ Good

41.0%

❌ Poor

Jinx
6

✅ Good

47.5%

❌ Poor

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Maev
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
1

❌ Poor

54.0%

⚠️ Fair

Dandy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kabo
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Native Pet
12

✅ Good

54.42%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
8

✅ Good

49.38%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
2

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

Sundays
2

❌ Poor

71.5%

✅ Good

Butternut Box
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
2

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

A Pup Above
5

✅ Good

39.6%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
14

✅ Good

67.0%

✅ 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 -0.73 3,441.54 kb
Ziggy
🟧 0.4

❌ Poor

2,566.09 kb

✅ Good

Jinx
🟧 0.4

❌ Poor

2,572.87 kb

✅ Good

Smalls
- -
Maev
- -
Nom Nom
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

13,060.57 kb

❌ Poor

Dandy
- -
Kabo
- -
Native Pet
✅ -0.31

❌ Poor

6,640.28 kb

❌ Poor

PetPlate
✅ -1.25

✅ Good

2,378.68 kb

✅ Good

Cat Person
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,677.89 kb

✅ Good

Sundays
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

307.92 kb

✅ Good

Butternut Box
- -
Just Food For Dogs
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,528.29 kb

✅ Good

A Pup Above
🟧 1.66

❌ Poor

2,642.57 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

2,420.42 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 29.2 7.07
Ziggy
15

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Jinx
41

❌ Poor

8

❌ Poor

Smalls
13

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Maev
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Nom Nom
72

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Dandy
0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Native Pet
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

PetPlate
0

✅ Good

-
Cat Person
101

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Sundays
48

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Butternut Box
25

✅ Good

19

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
73

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

A Pup Above
13

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
22

✅ 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 161 274 62.56%
Ziggy
4

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

66.67%
Jinx
7

✅ Good

34

✅ Good

82.93%
Smalls
8

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

38.46%
Maev
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

10.0%
Nom Nom
20

✅ Good

52

✅ Good

72.22%
Dandy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Native Pet
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Cat Person
26

✅ Good

75

✅ Good

74.26%
Sundays
8

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

83.33%
Butternut Box
0

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

100.0%
Just Food For Dogs
46

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

34.25%
A Pup Above
13

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Made by Nacho
18

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

18.18%

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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