Pet - May - 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

May

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 the month of May, Ren's Pets maintains its prominent position as the industry leader in emails, delivering a total of 15 of promotional emails. Following closely behind is Petco, with 12 emails.

When it comes to advertisements, Petco takes the lead, creating 82 new ads, accompanied by the highest number of ad copies with a total of 51. Bark Box follows closely with 69 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Petco leans towards videos, incorporating 42 videos alongside 34 images. Conversely, Bark Box places a strong emphasis on images with 51 images and only 15 videos.

Emails sent on average

6.7

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

2.7

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 6.73 56.45%
Wild One
2

❌ Poor

65.0%

✅ Good

West & Willow
11

✅ Good

52.18%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
9

✅ Good

65.33%

✅ Good

Fable Pets
10

✅ Good

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
12

✅ Good

59.58%

⚠️ Fair

Petcube
7

⚠️ Fair

63.57%

✅ Good

PETKIT
7

⚠️ Fair

51.86%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
10

✅ Good

49.0%

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
1

❌ Poor

60.0%

⚠️ Fair

Pets At Home
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
15

✅ Good

50.07%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
4

❌ Poor

47.5%

❌ Poor

Bark Box
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Native Pet
6

❌ Poor

64.67%

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
7

⚠️ Fair

55.29%

⚠️ 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 -2.65 2,155.13 kb
Wild One
✅ -1.9

❌ Poor

2,735.7 kb

❌ Poor

West & Willow
✅ -1.71

❌ Poor

2,627.52 kb

❌ Poor

Maxbone
✅ -2.09

❌ Poor

2,474.11 kb

❌ Poor

Fable Pets
✅ -0.48

❌ Poor

1,496.9 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -7.88

✅ Good

856.12 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -4.47

✅ Good

1,866.57 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -2.96

✅ Good

2,223.62 kb

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

2,703.17 kb

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

3,436.74 kb

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
- -
Ren's Pets
✅ -2.1

❌ Poor

3,022.72 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -3.03

✅ Good

3,032.65 kb

❌ Poor

Bark Box
- -
Native Pet
✅ -0.7

❌ Poor

1,286.38 kb

✅ Good

Incredible Pets
✅ -0.4

❌ Poor

1,642.18 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 24.53 12.67
Wild One
22

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

West & Willow
36

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Maxbone
11

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Fable Pets
11

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Petco
82

❌ Poor

38

❌ Poor

Petcube
14

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

PETKIT
0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
31

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
22

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
60

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Bark Box
69

❌ Poor

12

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
4

✅ Good

4

✅ 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 120 210 57.07%
Wild One
3

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

86.36%
West & Willow
0

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

80.56%
Maxbone
4

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

27.27%
Fable Pets
2

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

72.73%
Petco
34

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

51.22%
Petcube
1

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

92.86%
PETKIT
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
11

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

38.71%
Ren's Pets
11

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9.09%
Petlab Co.
3

✅ Good

57

✅ Good

95.0%
Bark Box
51

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

21.74%
Native Pet
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Incredible Pets
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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