Pet Food - July - 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

July

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 July, the top leaders in emails have changed from the previous month. Native Pet took the lead with 13 emails, followed by PetPlate with 11 emails.

Regarding advertising, Cat Person remained at the top with 69 new ads created. However, Just Food For Dogs secured the second position with 62 new ads.

In terms of ad media strategy, Cat Person emphasized videos (56) over images (13), while Just Food For Dogs utilized more images (47) than videos (13).

Emails sent on average

4.7

Ads published on average

27

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 4.67 55.61%
Ziggy
5

⚠️ Fair

41.0%

❌ Poor

Jinx
4

❌ Poor

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Maev
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
4

❌ Poor

58.25%

⚠️ Fair

Dandy
3

❌ Poor

54.33%

⚠️ Fair

Kabo
4

❌ Poor

53.5%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
13

✅ Good

53.15%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
11

✅ Good

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

Sundays
2

❌ Poor

68.0%

✅ Good

Butternut Box
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
10

✅ Good

56.2%

⚠️ Fair

A Pup Above
4

❌ Poor

55.25%

⚠️ Fair

Made by Nacho
9

✅ Good

59.44%

⚠️ 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 -1.4 2,822.98 kb
Ziggy
🟧 0.74

❌ Poor

2,322.11 kb

✅ Good

Jinx
🟧 0.65

❌ Poor

3,369.2 kb

❌ Poor

Smalls
- -
Maev
- -
Nom Nom
✅ -1.35

⚠️ Fair

4,188.48 kb

❌ Poor

Dandy
✅ -0.87

❌ Poor

4,275.48 kb

❌ Poor

Kabo
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,732.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
🟧 0.98

❌ Poor

2,890.11 kb

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
✅ -3.98

✅ Good

3,016.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
✅ -3.9

✅ Good

258.16 kb

✅ Good

Sundays
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

696.76 kb

✅ Good

Butternut Box
- -
Just Food For Dogs
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

3,121.92 kb

❌ Poor

A Pup Above
✅ -1.18

❌ Poor

4,249.43 kb

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
✅ -1.53

⚠️ Fair

1,265.73 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 26.8 7.93
Ziggy
40

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Jinx
47

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Smalls
22

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Maev
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Nom Nom
51

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Dandy
0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Native Pet
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

PetPlate
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Cat Person
69

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Sundays
28

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Butternut Box
19

✅ Good

15

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
62

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

A Pup Above
27

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ 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 142 256 63.68%
Ziggy
14

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

60.0%
Jinx
5

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

89.36%
Smalls
7

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

68.18%
Maev
4

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

73.33%
Nom Nom
30

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

41.18%
Dandy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Native Pet
4

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

71.43%
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

100.0%
Cat Person
13

✅ Good

56

✅ Good

81.16%
Sundays
0

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

100.0%
Butternut Box
0

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

100.0%
Just Food For Dogs
47

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

20.97%
A Pup Above
18

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

33.33%
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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