Pet Food - September - 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

September

2023

. 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 Summary: Made by Nacho is the leader in the Pet Food industry for email marketing. It sends the most emails with good email scoring, keeping promotions low. Native Pet also performs well in email marketing with a good email score but has some room for improvement in promotions. Other brands like A Pup Above and Sundays have decent email scores but need to work on reducing promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Ziggy leads in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. Jinx and Smalls also perform well in email deliverability with good spam scores and balanced email sizes. Maev needs to work on its email deliverability, with a fair spam score and large email size.

Ads Performance Summary: Cat Person excels in advertising with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Sundays and Butternut Box also perform well in advertising. Brands like Made by Nacho and A Pup Above need to focus more on their advertising efforts.

In summary, Made by Nacho leads in email marketing, while Ziggy excels in email deliverability. Cat Person dominates advertising, with Sundays and Butternut Box also performing well. Brands like Maev need to improve both email deliverability and advertising efforts.

Emails sent on average

4.2

Ads published on average

18

Average Spam Score

1.0

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 4.2 54.08%
Ziggy
4

⚠️ Fair

59.75%

✅ Good

Jinx
4

⚠️ Fair

60.75%

✅ Good

Smalls
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Maev
2

❌ Poor

47.5%

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dandy
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kabo
2

❌ Poor

49.0%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
11

✅ Good

51.09%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
8

✅ Good

51.75%

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
3

❌ Poor

42.67%

❌ Poor

Sundays
4

⚠️ Fair

69.75%

✅ Good

Butternut Box
6

✅ Good

42.67%

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
2

❌ Poor

54.5%

⚠️ Fair

A Pup Above
6

✅ Good

42.83%

❌ Poor

Made by Nacho
11

✅ Good

66.09%

✅ 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 -0.96 3,315.77 kb
Ziggy
✅ -1.65

✅ Good

1,662.92 kb

✅ Good

Jinx
✅ -1.48

✅ Good

1,904.81 kb

✅ Good

Smalls
- -
Maev
🟧 0.65

❌ Poor

4,207.48 kb

❌ Poor

Nom Nom
- -
Dandy
- -
Kabo
🟧 2.4

❌ Poor

1,047.38 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
🟧 0.53

❌ Poor

7,682.53 kb

❌ Poor

PetPlate
✅ -1.67

✅ Good

3,095.98 kb

⚠️ Fair

Cat Person
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

3,786.38 kb

❌ Poor

Sundays
✅ -1.7

✅ Good

591.66 kb

✅ Good

Butternut Box
- 1,633.0 kb

✅ Good

Just Food For Dogs
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,241.46 kb

✅ Good

A Pup Above
🟧 0.13

❌ Poor

3,199.48 kb

⚠️ Fair

Made by Nacho
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

2,512.13 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 18.0 7.13
Ziggy
13

✅ Good

11

❌ Poor

Jinx
21

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Smalls
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Maev
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Nom Nom
18

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Dandy
0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
0

✅ Good

-
Native Pet
0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

-
Cat Person
63

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Sundays
49

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Butternut Box
35

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Just Food For Dogs
13

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

A Pup Above
21

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Made by Nacho
12

✅ Good

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 77 192 71.11%
Ziggy
6

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

53.85%
Jinx
5

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

76.19%
Smalls
2

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

86.67%
Maev
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

30.0%
Nom Nom
3

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

83.33%
Dandy
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kabo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Native Pet
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Cat Person
19

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

68.25%
Sundays
2

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

95.92%
Butternut Box
0

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

100.0%
Just Food For Dogs
2

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%
A Pup Above
19

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9.52%
Made by Nacho
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

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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