Pet - 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.

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

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

During July, Bark Box took the lead in emails with 20 sent, while Petco followed closely with 17 emails.

As for advertising, the top brand remains unchanged, with Petlab Co. in the first position creating 112 new ads, and Petco in the second position with 90 new ads and the highest number of ad copies (47) among all the brands in the benchmark.

In terms of ad strategy, Petlab Co. solely utilized videos (112), while Petco employed a combination of 51 images and 35 videos.

Emails sent on average

9.1

Ads published on average

32

Average Spam Score

2.8

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 9.07 59.47%
Wild One
2

❌ Poor

91.0%

✅ Good

West & Willow
12

✅ Good

59.5%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
12

✅ Good

68.58%

✅ Good

Fable Pets
12

✅ Good

55.92%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
17

✅ Good

65.94%

✅ Good

Petcube
6

❌ Poor

63.33%

⚠️ Fair

PETKIT
7

❌ Poor

54.43%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
11

✅ Good

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
1

❌ Poor

65.0%

⚠️ Fair

Pets At Home
1

❌ Poor

72.0%

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
13

✅ Good

51.46%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
4

❌ Poor

69.5%

✅ Good

Bark Box
20

✅ Good

56.9%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
13

✅ Good

53.15%

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
5

❌ Poor

55.2%

⚠️ 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 -2.84 2,018.07 kb
Wild One
✅ -4.6

✅ Good

428.34 kb

✅ Good

West & Willow
✅ -1.98

❌ Poor

1,888.98 kb

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
✅ -2.72

⚠️ Fair

3,277.39 kb

❌ Poor

Fable Pets
🟧 0.15

❌ Poor

1,642.38 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -8.25

✅ Good

780.41 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -3.13

✅ Good

1,069.27 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -2.03

❌ Poor

668.4 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -3.98

✅ Good

3,016.36 kb

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

1,955.82 kb

⚠️ Fair

Pets At Home
✅ -10.1

✅ Good

44.91 kb

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
✅ -2.41

❌ Poor

3,715.18 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

1,544.22 kb

✅ Good

Bark Box
✅ -2.48

❌ Poor

1,728.64 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
🟧 0.98

❌ Poor

2,890.11 kb

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
✅ -2.46

❌ Poor

1,147.09 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 32.07 14.8
Wild One
54

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

West & Willow
13

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Maxbone
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Fable Pets
37

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Petco
90

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Petcube
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

PETKIT
0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
63

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
21

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
112

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Bark Box
54

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Native Pet
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
3

✅ Good

3

✅ 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 181 260 54.05%
Wild One
15

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

70.37%
West & Willow
0

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

100.0%
Maxbone
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Fable Pets
13

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

64.86%
Petco
51

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

38.89%
Petcube
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

83.33%
PETKIT
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

100.0%
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
35

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

15.87%
Ren's Pets
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9.52%
Petlab Co.
0

✅ Good

112

✅ Good

100.0%
Bark Box
45

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

5.56%
Native Pet
4

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

71.43%
Incredible Pets
3

✅ 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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