Sexual Wellness - 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.

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

October

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: Kindra leads the Sexual Wellness industry in email marketing with a substantial volume of emails sent, maintaining a good balance with a commendable email scoring. Puissante and Foria follow closely, demonstrating strong email performances. Stix performs well but shows room for improvement in promotions. Hello Cake and Mojo face challenges in email scoring and promotions, needing strategic enhancements. Hims and Nurx, although sending fewer emails, exhibit high email scoring, showcasing quality over quantity. LBDO, Rosewell, and Frenchie need significant improvements across all email marketing metrics.

Email Deliverability Summary: Mojo leads in email deliverability, combining a low spam score with optimal email size. Stix, Hello Cake, and Hims also demonstrate good deliverability but need to address certain aspects, such as email size for Hims. My Lubie and Puissante face challenges and require improvements in spam score and email size. LBDO, Rosewell, and Frenchie need substantial enhancements in both spam score and email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Hims dominates the Sexual Wellness industry in ads performance, displaying a high number of new ads, diverse copies, and a balanced mix of images and videos. Nurx follows closely, showcasing a robust performance across ad velocity and diversity. Puissante and Kindra perform well but require improvements in ad velocity. Mojo and Hello Cake face challenges in ads, needing both increased velocity and more diverse copies. Stix, My Lubie, and Foria need strategic enhancements in their ads strategies.

Emails sent on average

9.0

Ads published on average

17

Average Spam Score

2.5

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 9.0 57.33%
My Lubie
7

❌ Poor

46.14%

❌ Poor

Mojo
8

❌ Poor

71.88%

✅ Good

Hanx
6

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Puissante
23

✅ Good

47.61%

❌ Poor

Maude
11

✅ Good

54.36%

⚠️ Fair

Kindra
26

✅ Good

57.15%

⚠️ Fair

Frenchie
3

❌ Poor

55.67%

⚠️ Fair

LBDO
5

❌ Poor

45.0%

❌ Poor

Rosewell
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Stix
14

✅ Good

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

Hello Cake
9

⚠️ Fair

69.44%

✅ Good

Lola
5

❌ Poor

58.4%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
14

✅ Good

61.36%

⚠️ Fair

Hims
4

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

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 -2.51 3,725.19 kb
My Lubie
✅ -1.31

❌ Poor

3,033.23 kb

✅ Good

Mojo
✅ -4.09

✅ Good

786.98 kb

✅ Good

Hanx
✅ -2.72

⚠️ Fair

3,038.15 kb

✅ Good

Puissante
✅ -2.38

⚠️ Fair

6,940.73 kb

❌ Poor

Maude
✅ -1.04

❌ Poor

3,440.5 kb

⚠️ Fair

Kindra
✅ -2.2

❌ Poor

4,193.29 kb

❌ Poor

Frenchie
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

4,100.17 kb

❌ Poor

LBDO
✅ -2.32

⚠️ Fair

7,050.14 kb

❌ Poor

Rosewell
- -
Stix
✅ -4.0

✅ Good

3,642.95 kb

⚠️ Fair

Hello Cake
✅ -2.78

✅ Good

1,103.29 kb

✅ Good

Lola
✅ -2.72

⚠️ Fair

1,944.46 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -1.76

❌ Poor

2,279.27 kb

✅ Good

Hims
✅ -4.25

✅ Good

130.2 kb

✅ Good

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 17.2 6.53
My Lubie
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Mojo
11

✅ Good

6

⚠️ Fair

Hanx
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Puissante
27

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Maude
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Kindra
27

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Frenchie
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

LBDO
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Rosewell
0

✅ Good

-
Stix
0

✅ Good

-
Hello Cake
21

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Lola
0

✅ Good

-
Foria
11

✅ Good

6

⚠️ Fair

Hims
90

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Nurx
60

❌ 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 80 178 68.99%
My Lubie
0

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

100.0%
Mojo
3

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

72.73%
Hanx
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Puissante
0

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

100.0%
Maude
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Kindra
1

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

96.3%
Frenchie
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
LBDO
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Rosewell
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Stix
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hello Cake
8

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

61.9%
Lola
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Foria
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

36.36%
Hims
55

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

38.89%
Nurx
2

✅ Good

58

✅ Good

96.67%

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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