Pet Food - 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.

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

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: PetPlate leads the pack in email marketing performance, demonstrating consistent engagement with 16 emails sent, coupled with a good email scoring despite a fair percentage of promotions, indicating effective content delivery and customer interaction strategies. Native Pet closely follows with 15 emails sent, boasting a good email scoring and a high percentage of promotions, showcasing strong engagement and promotional activities. Just Food For Dogs exhibits commendable email marketing performance with 13 emails sent, albeit with a fair email scoring and a high percentage of promotions, suggesting potential areas for optimization in content delivery and promotional strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Ziggy showcases improved email deliverability with a good spam score, although with poor email size performance, indicating potential challenges in content optimization and inbox placement. Jinx demonstrates mixed results in email deliverability, displaying a fair spam score and email size, suggesting areas for improvement in email content and management practices. Smalls exhibits poor email deliverability, which may impact inbox placement and content optimization, necessitating potential improvements in email marketing practices.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Sundays stands out in advertising impact and diversity, with 113 impactful ads demonstrating both volume and variety in content, highlighting its robust market presence in the pet food brands industry. Cat Person closely follows with 107 impactful ads, showcasing a strong advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively positioning itself in the competitive market. Butternut Box maintains a solid advertising impact with 37 impactful ads, although with limited diversity in new images, suggesting potential areas for content variation and innovation.

Emails sent on average

5.3

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

0.9

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 5.33 54.98%
Ziggy
8

✅ Good

51.13%

⚠️ Fair

Jinx
6

✅ Good

55.17%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Maev
1

❌ Poor

46.0%

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dandy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kabo
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Native Pet
15

✅ Good

67.8%

✅ Good

PetPlate
16

✅ Good

60.25%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
3

❌ Poor

68.0%

✅ Good

Sundays
3

❌ Poor

47.33%

❌ Poor

Butternut Box
6

✅ Good

38.67%

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
13

✅ Good

41.85%

❌ Poor

A Pup Above
5

⚠️ Fair

52.4%

⚠️ Fair

Made by Nacho
4

❌ Poor

61.75%

✅ 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 -0.88 1,919.54 kb
Ziggy
✅ -0.55

❌ Poor

2,381.27 kb

❌ Poor

Jinx
🟧 1.4

❌ Poor

2,078.92 kb

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
- -
Maev
🟧 0.1

❌ Poor

3,502.15 kb

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
- -
Dandy
- -
Kabo
- -
Native Pet
✅ -1.23

✅ Good

1,133.13 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -3.17

✅ Good

1,990.22 kb

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
✅ -1.33

✅ Good

547.49 kb

✅ Good

Sundays
⚠️ 10.0

❌ Poor

242.34 kb

✅ Good

Butternut Box
- 3,077.37 kb

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
- 1,877.84 kb

⚠️ Fair

A Pup Above
🟧 0.4

❌ Poor

1,101.79 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -1.25

✅ Good

4,735.5 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 25.2 7.33
Ziggy
20

✅ Good

13

❌ Poor

Jinx
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Smalls
23

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Maev
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Nom Nom
8

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Dandy
0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Native Pet
21

✅ Good

8

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
10

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Cat Person
107

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Sundays
113

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Butternut Box
37

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
26

⚠️ Fair

11

❌ Poor

A Pup Above
0

✅ 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 114 264 69.84%
Ziggy
11

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

45.0%
Jinx
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Smalls
0

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

100.0%
Maev
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Nom Nom
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

37.5%
Dandy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Native Pet
11

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

47.62%
PetPlate
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
Cat Person
10

✅ Good

97

✅ Good

90.65%
Sundays
47

✅ Good

66

✅ Good

58.41%
Butternut Box
0

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

100.0%
Just Food For Dogs
23

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

11.54%
A Pup Above
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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