Pet - 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.

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

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: Petco leads the Pet industry in email marketing, sending the most emails with good email scoring. Bark Box also performs well in email marketing with good email scoring, but it has room for improvement in reducing promotions. Brands like Ren's Pets and Fable Pets have good email scores but need to work on reducing promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Wild One excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. Petco, despite leading in email marketing, has room for improvement in email deliverability, especially in email size. On the other hand, brands like West & Willow and PetPlate need to improve both spam scores and email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Petlab Co. dominates advertising in the Pet industry with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Bark Box and Petco also perform well in advertising. Brands like Native Pet and Incredible Pets need to focus more on their advertising efforts.

In summary, Petco leads in email marketing, while Wild One excels in email deliverability. Petlab Co. dominates advertising, with Bark Box and Petco also performing well. Brands like Ren's Pets and Fable Pets have potential in email marketing but need to work on reducing promotions. West & Willow and PetPlate need to improve both email deliverability and advertising efforts.

Emails sent on average

9.5

Ads published on average

29

Average Spam Score

3.4

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 9.47 56.44%
Wild One
3

❌ Poor

60.33%

⚠️ Fair

West & Willow
8

❌ Poor

61.38%

⚠️ Fair

Maxbone
13

✅ Good

58.08%

⚠️ Fair

Fable Pets
14

✅ Good

59.93%

⚠️ Fair

Petco
29

✅ Good

62.86%

✅ Good

Petcube
4

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

PETKIT
5

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

PetPlate
8

❌ Poor

51.75%

⚠️ Fair

Pets Corner
2

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Pets At Home
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
17

✅ Good

49.65%

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
4

❌ Poor

62.5%

✅ Good

Bark Box
19

✅ Good

52.37%

⚠️ Fair

Native Pet
11

✅ Good

51.09%

⚠️ Fair

Incredible Pets
5

❌ Poor

46.2%

❌ 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 -3.35 2,406.55 kb
Wild One
✅ -0.93

❌ Poor

1,413.41 kb

✅ Good

West & Willow
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

3,888.49 kb

❌ Poor

Maxbone
✅ -1.72

❌ Poor

2,155.26 kb

✅ Good

Fable Pets
✅ -0.85

❌ Poor

1,753.47 kb

✅ Good

Petco
✅ -10.07

✅ Good

804.36 kb

✅ Good

Petcube
✅ -4.25

✅ Good

2,158.21 kb

✅ Good

PETKIT
✅ -3.9

✅ Good

1,529.19 kb

✅ Good

PetPlate
✅ -1.67

❌ Poor

3,095.98 kb

❌ Poor

Pets Corner
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

3,229.83 kb

❌ Poor

Pets At Home
- -
Ren's Pets
✅ -2.45

❌ Poor

3,587.37 kb

❌ Poor

Petlab Co.
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

1,702.03 kb

✅ Good

Bark Box
✅ -1.76

❌ Poor

1,228.8 kb

✅ Good

Native Pet
🟧 0.53

❌ Poor

7,682.53 kb

❌ Poor

Incredible Pets
✅ -0.48

❌ Poor

1,466.62 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 28.87 14.73
Wild One
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

West & Willow
22

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Maxbone
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Fable Pets
27

⚠️ Fair

12

✅ Good

Petco
61

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Petcube
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

PETKIT
17

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

PetPlate
0

✅ Good

-
Pets Corner
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Pets At Home
37

❌ Poor

24

❌ Poor

Ren's Pets
20

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Petlab Co.
135

❌ Poor

34

❌ Poor

Bark Box
85

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Native Pet
0

✅ 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 213 184 42.49%
Wild One
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

40.0%
West & Willow
3

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

72.73%
Maxbone
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Fable Pets
8

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

66.67%
Petco
42

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

19.67%
Petcube
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
PETKIT
13

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

11.76%
PetPlate
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pets Corner
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Pets At Home
25

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

18.92%
Ren's Pets
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Petlab Co.
27

✅ Good

108

✅ Good

80.0%
Bark Box
72

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

10.59%
Native Pet
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Incredible Pets
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

Ads detected over time

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