Sexual Wellness - August - 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.

Sexual Wellness

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

Sexual Wellness

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: Hello Cake stands out in email marketing with the highest email scoring and a substantial number of emails sent. Mojo also performs well with high email scoring. Kindra excels in email quantity but has room for improvement in email scoring. Brands like Hims and Nurx need to enhance their email strategies.

Email Deliverability Summary: My Lubie leads in email deliverability with a good spam score and a small email size. Mojo and Puissante also perform well in email deliverability. Brands like Hims and LBDO need to work on their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Hims excels in advertising with the most new ads detected and a wide variety of unique copies. Hello Cake and Nurx also perform well in ads. Brands like Foria and Stix lag in ad performance.

Social Ads Diversity Summary: Hello Cake leads in social ad diversity with a high proportion of videos. Nurx and Hims also perform well in this aspect. Many brands need to diversify their social ads with more videos.

In summary, Hello Cake leads in email marketing and social ad diversity, while My Lubie excels in email deliverability. Hims stands out in ads performance. Brands like Foria and Stix need to enhance their advertising strategies to compete effectively in the Sexual Wellness industry.

Emails sent on average

9.3

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 9.33 54.96%
My Lubie
8

❌ Poor

48.0%

❌ Poor

Mojo
14

✅ Good

63.21%

✅ Good

Hanx
7

❌ Poor

58.57%

⚠️ Fair

Puissante
18

✅ Good

39.28%

❌ Poor

Maude
10

⚠️ Fair

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Kindra
25

✅ Good

49.52%

⚠️ Fair

Frenchie
6

❌ Poor

65.83%

✅ Good

LBDO
6

❌ Poor

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Rosewell
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Stix
12

✅ Good

55.42%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Cake
17

✅ Good

61.71%

✅ Good

Lola
6

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
11

✅ Good

65.64%

✅ Good

Hims
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Nurx
0

❌ Poor

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 -2.12 3,625.53 kb
My Lubie
✅ -1.94

⚠️ Fair

1,449.15 kb

✅ Good

Mojo
✅ -2.55

✅ Good

1,684.17 kb

✅ Good

Hanx
✅ -0.81

❌ Poor

3,743.44 kb

⚠️ Fair

Puissante
✅ -0.51

❌ Poor

8,581.23 kb

❌ Poor

Maude
✅ -2.58

✅ Good

2,164.75 kb

✅ Good

Kindra
✅ -1.58

❌ Poor

3,384.86 kb

⚠️ Fair

Frenchie
✅ -3.2

✅ Good

2,231.27 kb

✅ Good

LBDO
✅ -2.67

✅ Good

5,197.95 kb

❌ Poor

Rosewell
- -
Stix
✅ -2.33

⚠️ Fair

3,834.73 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hello Cake
✅ -2.71

✅ Good

2,550.91 kb

✅ Good

Lola
✅ -2.1

⚠️ Fair

3,294.04 kb

⚠️ Fair

Foria
✅ -3.99

✅ Good

2,886.01 kb

✅ Good

Hims
- -
Nurx
- -

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 24.67 8.07
My Lubie
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Mojo
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Hanx
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Puissante
18

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Maude
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Kindra
24

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Frenchie
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

LBDO
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Rosewell
0

✅ Good

-
Stix
0

✅ Good

-
Hello Cake
61

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Lola
0

✅ Good

-
Foria
17

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Hims
145

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Nurx
58

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

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 123 238 64.32%
My Lubie
0

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

100.0%
Mojo
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Hanx
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

50.0%
Puissante
0

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

88.89%
Maude
0

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

100.0%
Kindra
7

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

70.83%
Frenchie
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

37.5%
LBDO
1

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

42.86%
Rosewell
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Stix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hello Cake
21

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

65.57%
Lola
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Foria
12

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

29.41%
Hims
64

✅ Good

81

✅ Good

55.86%
Nurx
4

✅ Good

50

✅ Good

86.21%

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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