Running - March - 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.

Running

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

Running

industry, for the month of

March

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 March, NO BULL dominated the email marketing space with 30 emails sent, closely followed by Ten Thousand and Vuori with 24 emails each. Vuori outperformed other brands in terms of advertising with 59 new ads launched and 29 unique ad copies used. In terms of media preference, Vuori favored images with 71% of their media in the form of images, and the remaining as videos. Ten Thousand, on the other hand, relied entirely on images for their advertising campaigns.

Emails sent on average

12.3

Ads published on average

21

Average Spam Score

2.2

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 12.6 55.4%
Sporcks
8

❌ Poor

59.13%

⚠️ Fair

Tracksmith
9

❌ Poor

52.56%

⚠️ Fair

On Running
13

⚠️ Fair

50.15%

⚠️ Fair

Satisfy Running
3

❌ Poor

66.67%

✅ Good

Hoka
20

✅ Good

59.7%

⚠️ Fair

Brooks Running
8

❌ Poor

49.38%

❌ Poor

Hylo
7

❌ Poor

47.29%

❌ Poor

ciele
10

❌ Poor

41.1%

❌ Poor

Joovv
9

❌ Poor

67.0%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
4

❌ Poor

50.25%

⚠️ Fair

Vuori
25

✅ Good

49.56%

❌ Poor

Janji - UK
7

❌ Poor

54.71%

⚠️ Fair

Ten Thousand
24

✅ Good

56.67%

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
30

✅ Good

65.43%

✅ Good

SAYSKY
12

⚠️ Fair

49.33%

❌ 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 -2.2 4,156.61 kb
Sporcks
✅ -2.56

✅ Good

2,666.86 kb

✅ Good

Tracksmith
✅ -2.49

✅ Good

2,744.28 kb

✅ Good

On Running
✅ -1.99

⚠️ Fair

4,236.4 kb

⚠️ Fair

Satisfy Running
✅ -1.27

❌ Poor

1,599.82 kb

✅ Good

Hoka
✅ -2.25

⚠️ Fair

8,019.78 kb

❌ Poor

Brooks Running
✅ -1.11

❌ Poor

1,933.78 kb

✅ Good

Hylo
✅ -1.67

❌ Poor

3,788.37 kb

⚠️ Fair

ciele
🟧 0.73

❌ Poor

1,730.38 kb

✅ Good

Joovv
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

1,568.65 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

4,120.97 kb

⚠️ Fair

Vuori
✅ -0.3

❌ Poor

3,808.93 kb

⚠️ Fair

Janji - UK
✅ -3.39

✅ Good

4,390.33 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ten Thousand
✅ -2.34

⚠️ Fair

5,856.34 kb

❌ Poor

NO BULL
✅ -4.13

✅ Good

4,409.24 kb

⚠️ Fair

SAYSKY
✅ -0.65

❌ Poor

2,551.5 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 21.2 9.87
Sporcks
19

✅ Good

12

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
28

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

On Running
0

✅ Good

-
Satisfy Running
42

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Hoka
30

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

Brooks Running
30

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Hylo
0

✅ Good

-
ciele
0

✅ Good

-
Joovv
12

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Vuori
59

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

Janji - UK
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
30

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

NO BULL
32

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

SAYSKY
29

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 164 90 31.47%
Sporcks
6

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

42.11%
Tracksmith
14

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

50.0%
On Running
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Satisfy Running
17

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

59.52%
Hoka
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

16.67%
Brooks Running
18

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

40.0%
Hylo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
ciele
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Joovv
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Vuori
41

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

25.42%
Janji - UK
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Ten Thousand
30

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
NO BULL
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
SAYSKY
27

✅ 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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