Shaving - 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.

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

August

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 August, FFS led with 21 emails sent. Manscaped followed second with 19 emails, 63% of which were promotional.

Regarding advertising, Harrys was the leader again with 120 new ads created, and Flamingo followed with 73 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, both Harrys and Flamingo emphasized videos over images. Harrys used 64 videos and 55 images, while Flamingo employed 70 videos and only 3 images.

Emails sent on average

7.2

Ads published on average

29

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 7.2 55.76%
Leaf Shave
8

✅ Good

46.25%

❌ Poor

Harrys
5

❌ Poor

80.0%

✅ Good

Manscaped
20

✅ Good

40.7%

❌ Poor

Supply
7

⚠️ Fair

73.14%

✅ Good

Bevel
11

✅ Good

61.36%

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
11

✅ Good

64.18%

✅ Good

Dollar Shave Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billie
2

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

Flamingo
8

✅ Good

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

OneBlade
8

✅ Good

68.38%

✅ Good

Balls
5

❌ Poor

60.2%

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

BigMoustache
2

❌ Poor

51.5%

⚠️ Fair

FFS
21

✅ Good

46.86%

❌ 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 -1.09 1,880.72 kb
Leaf Shave
✅ -0.64

❌ Poor

3,709.55 kb

❌ Poor

Harrys
✅ -3.08

✅ Good

410.0 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 3.73

❌ Poor

1,405.95 kb

✅ Good

Supply
✅ -0.86

❌ Poor

442.82 kb

✅ Good

Bevel
✅ -1.54

✅ Good

930.98 kb

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
✅ -2.84

✅ Good

1,906.58 kb

⚠️ Fair

Dollar Shave Club
- -
Billie
✅ -4.25

✅ Good

3,783.77 kb

❌ Poor

Flamingo
✅ -3.85

✅ Good

1,322.98 kb

✅ Good

OneBlade
✅ -1.73

✅ Good

741.11 kb

✅ Good

Balls
✅ -2.26

✅ Good

1,988.08 kb

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
- -
BigMoustache
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

3,145.06 kb

❌ Poor

FFS
✅ -1.7

✅ Good

3,268.99 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 29.0 6.93
Leaf Shave
25

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Harrys
120

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Manscaped
32

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Supply
15

✅ Good

8

❌ Poor

Bevel
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
17

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Dollar Shave Club
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Billie
63

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Flamingo
73

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

OneBlade
28

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

FFS
43

❌ Poor

6

✅ 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 176 253 58.16%
Leaf Shave
18

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

28.0%
Harrys
55

✅ Good

64

✅ Good

53.33%
Manscaped
13

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

59.38%
Supply
6

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

60.0%
Bevel
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
5

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

64.71%
Dollar Shave Club
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Billie
30

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

50.79%
Flamingo
3

✅ Good

70

✅ Good

95.89%
OneBlade
13

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

53.57%
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
0

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

100.0%
FFS
32

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

18.6%

Ads detected over time

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