Sexual Wellness - 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.

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

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: Hello Cake leads the Sexual Wellness industry in email marketing, combining a high volume of emails with excellent scores. Kindra closely follows with a good balance between the number of emails sent and scoring, although it tends to promote more frequently. Puissante and Mojo show promising performances but need to address higher promotion percentages. Lagging behind are Hims, Nurx, and Foria, with Hims having a decent score but needing to enhance email frequency.

Email Deliverability Summary: My Lubie secures the top spot in email deliverability, boasting an excellent spam score and optimized email size. Puissante follows, showing good deliverability despite larger email sizes. On the other hand, brands like Hims, Nurx, and Lola need to improve their deliverability, addressing issues with spam scores and email size.

Ads Performance Summary: Hims dominates the advertising landscape in the Sexual Wellness industry, publishing the highest number of ads with a diverse range of unique copies. Nurx also performs well in advertising, with a good variety of copies. Brands like Rosewell, Stix, and Lola need to significantly enhance their advertising presence, having shown no activity during the observed period.

Emails sent on average

10.2

Ads published on average

23

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 10.2 54.31%
My Lubie
10

⚠️ Fair

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Mojo
13

✅ Good

58.62%

⚠️ Fair

Hanx
9

❌ Poor

54.56%

⚠️ Fair

Puissante
17

✅ Good

44.65%

❌ Poor

Maude
13

✅ Good

60.23%

✅ Good

Kindra
25

✅ Good

52.16%

⚠️ Fair

Frenchie
9

❌ Poor

55.89%

⚠️ Fair

LBDO
3

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Rosewell
2

❌ Poor

65.0%

✅ Good

Stix
9

❌ Poor

55.11%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Cake
18

✅ Good

64.94%

✅ Good

Lola
6

❌ Poor

55.67%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
14

✅ Good

47.29%

❌ Poor

Hims
3

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Nurx
2

❌ Poor

29.0%

❌ 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 -1.45 2,976.36 kb
My Lubie
✅ -2.54

✅ Good

2,215.26 kb

✅ Good

Mojo
✅ -0.9

❌ Poor

1,311.66 kb

✅ Good

Hanx
✅ -2.08

✅ Good

3,664.29 kb

❌ Poor

Puissante
✅ -1.22

❌ Poor

5,532.28 kb

❌ Poor

Maude
✅ -2.51

✅ Good

3,401.49 kb

❌ Poor

Kindra
✅ -1.55

⚠️ Fair

3,667.61 kb

❌ Poor

Frenchie
🟧 0.54

❌ Poor

1,393.56 kb

✅ Good

LBDO
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

5,294.36 kb

❌ Poor

Rosewell
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

1,287.12 kb

✅ Good

Stix
✅ -1.67

✅ Good

3,353.82 kb

❌ Poor

Hello Cake
✅ -2.36

✅ Good

2,325.8 kb

✅ Good

Lola
✅ -1.13

❌ Poor

1,252.78 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -0.61

❌ Poor

2,637.51 kb

✅ Good

Hims
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

486.52 kb

✅ Good

Nurx
- 2,146.22 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 23.2 9.6
My Lubie
23

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

Mojo
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Hanx
20

✅ Good

11

❌ Poor

Puissante
42

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Maude
14

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Kindra
12

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Frenchie
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

LBDO
8

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Rosewell
0

✅ Good

-
Stix
0

✅ Good

-
Hello Cake
15

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Lola
0

✅ Good

-
Foria
40

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Hims
111

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

Nurx
46

❌ Poor

15

❌ 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 140 206 59.2%
My Lubie
0

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

100.0%
Mojo
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
Hanx
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

35.0%
Puissante
2

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

92.86%
Maude
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

14.29%
Kindra
0

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

100.0%
Frenchie
2

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

83.33%
LBDO
2

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

75.0%
Rosewell
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Stix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hello Cake
14

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Lola
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Foria
35

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

12.5%
Hims
56

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

49.55%
Nurx
3

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

93.48%

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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