Pet Food - January - 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

February

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: Native Pet leads the industry with 14 emails, showcasing a good performance score of 60.71% and maintaining a balanced promotion ratio (7%). PetPlate follows closely with 13 emails, demonstrating strong performance but needing improvement in promotion strategies. Just Food For Dogs and Butternut Box exhibit potential in email marketing but require adjustments in both performance and promotion ratios to compete effectively. Ziggy, Smalls, Cat Person, Jinx, Sundays, A Pup Above, Made by Nacho, and Maev face challenges in email marketing performance and promotion strategies, needing significant enhancements to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Ziggy leads in email deliverability with a positive spam score and efficient email size management. Jinx exhibits positive spam scores but faces challenges in email size management. Native Pet, Cat Person, Sundays, and Made by Nacho demonstrate effective email deliverability with positive spam scores and efficient email size management. PetPlate and A Pup Above show promise in spam scores but require improvements in email size management for optimal deliverability. Smalls, Maev, Nom Nom, Butternut Box, Just Food For Dogs, and Kabo face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to optimize email deliverability.

Advertising Performance: Cat Person leads in advertising with 105 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content. Sundays closely follows with 87 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. Butternut Box, Jinx, and Just Food For Dogs exhibit potential in advertising but require enhancements in both volume and diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the Pet Food Brands industry. Smalls, Nom Nom, PetPlate, Ziggy, Native Pet, Maev, Made by Nacho, and Dandy struggle with advertising impact and diversity, needing significant improvements to effectively engage consumers.

Emails sent on average

5.8

Ads published on average

33

Average Spam Score

1.1

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 5.8 52.62%
Ziggy
6

⚠️ Fair

51.0%

⚠️ Fair

Jinx
4

❌ Poor

52.75%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
5

❌ Poor

44.0%

❌ Poor

Maev
2

❌ Poor

64.5%

✅ Good

Nom Nom
8

✅ Good

59.25%

✅ Good

Dandy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kabo
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Native Pet
14

✅ Good

60.71%

✅ Good

PetPlate
13

✅ Good

48.08%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
5

❌ Poor

59.2%

✅ Good

Sundays
4

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

Butternut Box
9

✅ Good

42.0%

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
10

✅ Good

39.8%

❌ Poor

A Pup Above
4

❌ Poor

60.0%

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
3

❌ Poor

73.67%

✅ 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 -1.11 2,950.7 kb
Ziggy
✅ -1.37

✅ Good

1,681.73 kb

✅ Good

Jinx
🟧 0.15

❌ Poor

1,766.57 kb

✅ Good

Smalls
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

4,745.99 kb

❌ Poor

Maev
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

3,570.67 kb

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
- 3,087.71 kb

⚠️ Fair

Dandy
- -
Kabo
- -
Native Pet
✅ -0.51

❌ Poor

1,707.12 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -1.58

✅ Good

5,948.4 kb

❌ Poor

Cat Person
✅ -2.56

✅ Good

2,246.61 kb

✅ Good

Sundays
🟧 1.23

❌ Poor

478.39 kb

✅ Good

Butternut Box
- 3,707.95 kb

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
- 2,844.86 kb

⚠️ Fair

A Pup Above
✅ -2.05

✅ Good

1,497.57 kb

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
✅ -1.67

✅ Good

598.36 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 33.2 7.53
Ziggy
19

✅ Good

10

❌ Poor

Jinx
64

❌ Poor

8

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
28

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Maev
9

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Nom Nom
22

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Dandy
0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
0

✅ Good

-
Native Pet
10

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

PetPlate
21

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Cat Person
105

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Sundays
87

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Butternut Box
86

❌ Poor

33

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
47

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

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 151 347 69.68%
Ziggy
5

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

73.68%
Jinx
13

✅ Good

51

✅ Good

79.69%
Smalls
6

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

78.57%
Maev
1

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

88.89%
Nom Nom
13

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

40.91%
Dandy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Native Pet
3

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

70.0%
PetPlate
3

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

85.71%
Cat Person
36

✅ Good

69

✅ Good

65.71%
Sundays
31

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

64.37%
Butternut Box
4

✅ Good

82

✅ Good

95.35%
Just Food For Dogs
36

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

23.4%
A Pup Above
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Made by Nacho
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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