Running - 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.

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

November

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: In the Running industry, Hoka and Brooks Running are the top performers in email marketing. Hoka stands out with the highest email scoring and a significant number of emails sent, while Brooks Running maintains a good balance between email quantity and quality. On Running is another notable brand with a fair email marketing performance. However, brands like Sporcks and Satisfy Running need to enhance their email marketing efforts, as they have low email scoring and send fewer emails.

Email Deliverability Summary: Tracksmith leads in email deliverability with the lowest average spam score and optimized email size. Hoka, Satisfy Running, and Joovv also perform well in email deliverability. However, brands like Janji and SAYSKY need to improve their email deliverability due to high email sizes and less optimized emails.

Ads Performance Summary: In advertising, Sporcks and On Running are the leaders, with a high number of ads published and a variety of unique ad copies. Ten Thousand also performs well in advertising. However, brands like ciele and Joovv lag behind with fewer new ads detected and limited ad diversity.

Social Ads Diversity Summary: On Running excels in social ad diversity, particularly with a high proportion of video content in their ads. Hoka and Brooks Running also perform well in this aspect. In contrast, brands like Satisfy Running and Supersapiens have limited social ad diversity due to a lack of video content in their ads.

Emails sent on average

12.3

Ads published on average

38

Average Spam Score

2.0

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 12.27 52.43%
Sporcks
11

❌ Poor

47.18%

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
7

❌ Poor

61.14%

✅ Good

On Running
13

⚠️ Fair

53.92%

⚠️ Fair

Satisfy Running
4

❌ Poor

53.75%

⚠️ Fair

Hoka
20

✅ Good

69.0%

✅ Good

Brooks Running
19

✅ Good

51.63%

⚠️ Fair

Hylo
4

❌ Poor

53.25%

⚠️ Fair

ciele
7

❌ Poor

40.0%

❌ Poor

Joovv
6

❌ Poor

71.83%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
3

❌ Poor

45.67%

❌ Poor

Vuori
22

✅ Good

44.64%

❌ Poor

Janji - UK
8

❌ Poor

51.75%

⚠️ Fair

Ten Thousand
25

✅ Good

50.2%

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
23

✅ Good

49.09%

⚠️ Fair

SAYSKY
12

⚠️ Fair

48.5%

⚠️ 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 -2.0 3,636.11 kb
Sporcks
✅ -1.45

❌ Poor

4,489.67 kb

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
✅ -2.86

✅ Good

3,177.57 kb

✅ Good

On Running
✅ -2.76

✅ Good

4,961.31 kb

❌ Poor

Satisfy Running
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,863.58 kb

✅ Good

Hoka
✅ -2.75

✅ Good

972.67 kb

✅ Good

Brooks Running
✅ -2.09

⚠️ Fair

3,750.35 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hylo
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

4,731.31 kb

❌ Poor

ciele
✅ -0.92

❌ Poor

4,272.03 kb

❌ Poor

Joovv
✅ -4.17

✅ Good

1,250.39 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

3,456.36 kb

⚠️ Fair

Vuori
✅ -1.18

❌ Poor

4,320.86 kb

❌ Poor

Janji - UK
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

5,437.94 kb

❌ Poor

Ten Thousand
✅ -1.51

❌ Poor

3,859.91 kb

⚠️ Fair

NO BULL
✅ -1.28

❌ Poor

2,878.8 kb

✅ Good

SAYSKY
✅ -1.28

❌ Poor

5,231.62 kb

❌ Poor

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 37.6 12.07
Sporcks
60

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Tracksmith
23

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

On Running
87

❌ Poor

29

❌ Poor

Satisfy Running
54

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Hoka
18

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Brooks Running
78

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Hylo
31

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

ciele
0

✅ Good

-
Joovv
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Vuori
45

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Janji - UK
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
60

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

NO BULL
61

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

SAYSKY
30

✅ Good

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 446 109 19.33%
Sporcks
47

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

20.0%
Tracksmith
16

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

30.43%
On Running
55

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

33.33%
Satisfy Running
54

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Hoka
6

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

66.67%
Brooks Running
65

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

14.1%
Hylo
21

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

32.26%
ciele
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Joovv
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Vuori
32

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

28.89%
Janji - UK
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

40.0%
Ten Thousand
53

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

11.67%
NO BULL
55

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

6.56%
SAYSKY
30

✅ 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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