Pet - October - 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

October

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: Petco leads the Pet Industry in email marketing, sending the most emails with excellent scoring and promotions. Bark Box closely follows with good email practices and a substantial quantity. Ren's Pets and Maxbone exhibit strong performances, but Ren's Pets needs to address promotions. Fable Pets, Native Pet, and PETKIT show potential but need improvements, especially in scoring and promotions. Petlab Co., West & Willow, Pets At Home, Petcube, Wild One, and Incredible Pets need significant enhancements in both quantity and quality of emails.

Email Deliverability Summary: Wild One excels in email deliverability, combining a good spam score with optimal email size. Petco, Petlab Co., PetPlate, and Pets At Home also demonstrate strong deliverability. Fable Pets and Petcube maintain good spam scores but need improvements in email size. Ren's Pets, Maxbone, Native Pet, and Incredible Pets face challenges and should focus on improving both spam scores and email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Petlab Co. dominates the Pet Industry in ads performance, demonstrating high velocity and a diverse range of unique copies. Fable Pets, Petco, West & Willow, Pets At Home, and Bark Box also maintain commendable ad strategies. Ren's Pets, Maxbone, Native Pet, Wild One, Petcube, PETKIT, and Incredible Pets face challenges and need to enhance their ads strategies for better overall performance.

Emails sent on average

11.3

Ads published on average

31

Average Spam Score

3.7

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 11.33 57.3%
Wild One
4

❌ Poor

72.25%

✅ Good

West & Willow
6

❌ Poor

54.67%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
14

✅ Good

62.79%

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
11

⚠️ Fair

65.27%

✅ Good

Petco
32

✅ Good

63.31%

✅ Good

Petcube
5

❌ Poor

66.2%

✅ Good

PETKIT
10

❌ Poor

43.3%

❌ Poor

PetPlate
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

Pets Corner
2

❌ Poor

44.5%

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
2

❌ Poor

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ren's Pets
19

✅ Good

51.89%

⚠️ Fair

Petlab Co.
9

❌ Poor

42.89%

❌ Poor

Bark Box
40

✅ Good

57.78%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
13

✅ Good

51.23%

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
2

❌ Poor

51.0%

❌ Poor

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 -3.68 2,190.96 kb
Wild One
✅ -3.47

⚠️ Fair

2,362.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

West & Willow
✅ -1.67

❌ Poor

3,845.57 kb

❌ Poor

Maxbone
✅ -3.16

❌ Poor

2,862.08 kb

❌ Poor

Fable Pets
✅ -2.18

❌ Poor

1,675.27 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -9.95

✅ Good

793.57 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -3.54

⚠️ Fair

904.15 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -1.89

❌ Poor

2,306.63 kb

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

980.68 kb

✅ Good

Pets Corner
- 2,919.92 kb

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
- 379.3 kb

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
✅ -2.99

❌ Poor

3,447.04 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -2.87

❌ Poor

3,264.29 kb

❌ Poor

Bark Box
✅ -2.0

❌ Poor

1,326.4 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
🟧 0.37

❌ Poor

5,320.12 kb

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
✅ -2.5

❌ Poor

1,896.92 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 30.8 13.87
Wild One
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

West & Willow
59

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Maxbone
27

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Fable Pets
74

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Petco
60

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Petcube
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

PETKIT
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

PetPlate
0

✅ Good

-
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
48

❌ Poor

11

✅ Good

Ren's Pets
33

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
90

❌ Poor

31

❌ Poor

Bark Box
35

❌ Poor

14

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
23

✅ Good

6

✅ 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 167 245 53.03%
Wild One
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
West & Willow
3

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

64.41%
Maxbone
18

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

11.11%
Fable Pets
29

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

60.81%
Petco
41

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

28.33%
Petcube
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
PETKIT
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets At Home
26

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

33.33%
Ren's Pets
19

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Petlab Co.
5

✅ Good

85

✅ Good

94.44%
Bark Box
18

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

37.14%
Native Pet
6

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

73.91%
Incredible Pets
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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