Pet - 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.

Pets

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Pets

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: Bark Box leads the industry with 29 emails, boasting a good performance score of 59.83% while maintaining a balanced promotion ratio (6%). Petco closely follows with 28 emails, exhibiting strong performance and effective promotion strategies (78%). Ren's Pets, Native Pet, and PetPlate show promise in email marketing but need adjustments in both performance and promotion ratios to compete effectively. Maxbone, Fable Pets, PETKIT, Petlab Co., Pets Corner, Petcube, Incredible Pets, Pets at Home, West & Willow, and Wild One face challenges in email marketing performance and promotion strategies, requiring significant enhancements to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Maxbone and Fable Pets exhibit positive spam scores, showcasing good email deliverability despite challenges in email size management. Petco, Petcube, Pets Corner, PETKIT, and Native Pet demonstrate effective email deliverability with positive spam scores and efficient email size management. PetPlate, Ren's Pets, and Petlab Co. show promise in spam scores but require improvements in email size management for optimal deliverability. Incredible Pets, Bark Box, and Wild One face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to optimize email deliverability.

Advertising Performance: Petco leads in advertising with 272 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content. Petlab Co., Bark Box, and Pets at Home closely follow, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. PETKIT, Fable Pets, Maxbone, PetPlate, Wild One, Petcube, West & Willow, Native Pet, Ren's Pets, and Pets Corner exhibit potential in advertising but require enhancements in both volume and diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the Pet Brands industry. Incredible Pets struggles with advertising impact and diversity, needing significant improvements to effectively engage consumers.

Emails sent on average

9.4

Ads published on average

44

Average Spam Score

3.6

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 9.4 55.5%
Wild One
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

West & Willow
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Maxbone
12

✅ Good

57.42%

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
9

⚠️ Fair

59.67%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
28

✅ Good

62.32%

✅ Good

Petcube
3

❌ Poor

65.0%

✅ Good

PETKIT
4

❌ Poor

37.75%

❌ Poor

PetPlate
13

✅ Good

48.08%

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
3

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Pets at Home
1

❌ Poor

65.0%

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
20

✅ Good

42.8%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
3

❌ Poor

41.67%

❌ Poor

Bark Box
29

✅ Good

59.83%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
14

✅ Good

60.71%

⚠️ Fair

Incredible Pets
2

❌ Poor

55.5%

⚠️ 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 -3.58 2,469.89 kb
Wild One
- -
West & Willow
- -
Maxbone
✅ -0.85

❌ Poor

2,438.1 kb

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
✅ -0.3

❌ Poor

1,502.53 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -10.74

✅ Good

932.43 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -7.17

✅ Good

1,278.53 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -1.13

❌ Poor

5,906.4 kb

❌ Poor

PetPlate
✅ -1.58

❌ Poor

5,948.4 kb

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

2,308.18 kb

⚠️ Fair

Pets at Home
- 713.69 kb

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
✅ -1.85

❌ Poor

3,081.72 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -0.97

❌ Poor

2,277.26 kb

⚠️ Fair

Bark Box
✅ -2.41

❌ Poor

1,407.04 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
✅ -0.51

❌ Poor

1,707.12 kb

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

16,884.24 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 44.4 14.87
Wild One
18

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

West & Willow
13

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Maxbone
31

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Fable Pets
33

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Petco
272

❌ Poor

28

❌ Poor

Petcube
14

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

PETKIT
43

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

PetPlate
21

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Pets Corner
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Pets at Home
56

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
85

❌ Poor

15

⚠️ Fair

Bark Box
66

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Native Pet
10

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
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 394 272 40.84%
Wild One
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

44.44%
West & Willow
0

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

100.0%
Maxbone
20

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

35.48%
Fable Pets
17

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

48.48%
Petco
223

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

18.01%
Petcube
0

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

100.0%
PETKIT
40

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

6.98%
PetPlate
3

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

85.71%
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Pets at Home
36

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

35.71%
Ren's Pets
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
Petlab Co.
0

✅ Good

85

✅ Good

100.0%
Bark Box
40

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

39.39%
Native Pet
3

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

70.0%
Incredible Pets
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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