Shaving - April - 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.

Shaving

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

Shaving

industry, for the month of

April

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 April, Manscaped and Supply were the top email senders in the Men's Grooming industry, with 14 and 12 promotional emails sent, respectively. Manscaped and Leaf Shave were the top ad creators, each launching 60 new ads, with Flamingo following closely with 48 new ads created. Manscaped utilized the highest number of ad copies during this period, with 47 new copies in their ads. In terms of media preference, Manscaped and Flamingo focused more on using images, with Manscaped using 40 new images vs. 20 new videos, and Flamingo using 48 new images vs. 0 new videos. Meanwhile, Leaf Shave was more focused on videos, with 38 new videos vs. 22 new images.

Compared to March, Manscaped and Supply had almost similar number of emails sent. However, Leaf Shave had more new ads in March, with 60 new ads created, primarily focused on video content with 71% of their new media featuring videos.

Emails sent on average

4.4

Ads published on average

18

Average Spam Score

1.1

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 4.4 53.71%
Leaf Shave
6

✅ Good

37.67%

❌ Poor

Harrys
2

❌ Poor

66.5%

✅ Good

Manscaped
14

✅ Good

48.0%

❌ Poor

Supply
12

✅ Good

50.83%

⚠️ Fair

Bevel
1

❌ Poor

63.0%

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
6

✅ Good

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Dollar Shave Club
1

❌ Poor

46.0%

❌ Poor

Billie
3

❌ Poor

60.67%

✅ Good

Flamingo
10

✅ Good

61.6%

✅ Good

OneBlade
8

✅ Good

64.5%

✅ Good

Balls
3

❌ Poor

54.33%

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

BigMoustache
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

FFS
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 -1.08 2,591.38 kb
Leaf Shave
✅ -1.3

✅ Good

4,562.61 kb

❌ Poor

Harrys
✅ -1.85

✅ Good

1,279.12 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 2.69

❌ Poor

1,022.5 kb

✅ Good

Supply
✅ -2.49

✅ Good

4,526.37 kb

❌ Poor

Bevel
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

1,205.57 kb

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
✅ -1.6

✅ Good

1,225.19 kb

✅ Good

Dollar Shave Club
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

3,705.68 kb

❌ Poor

Billie
✅ -1.73

✅ Good

3,517.8 kb

❌ Poor

Flamingo
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

3,195.38 kb

❌ Poor

OneBlade
✅ -1.41

✅ Good

995.12 kb

✅ Good

Balls
✅ -2.27

✅ Good

3,245.15 kb

❌ Poor

Estrid - UK
- -
BigMoustache
- -
FFS
- -

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 17.93 8.0
Leaf Shave
60

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Harrys
30

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Manscaped
60

❌ Poor

40

❌ Poor

Supply
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Bevel
0

✅ Good

-
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
19

⚠️ Fair

11

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Billie
27

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Flamingo
48

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

OneBlade
0

✅ Good

-
Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

FFS
5

✅ Good

5

✅ 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 142 126 46.84%
Leaf Shave
22

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

63.33%
Harrys
6

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

80.0%
Manscaped
40

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

33.33%
Supply
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
Bevel
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
5

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

73.68%
Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Billie
11

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

55.56%
Flamingo
48

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
OneBlade
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
6

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
FFS
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%

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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