Shaving - December - 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

January

2024

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

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Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Overview: In the shaving industry, despite a 46.51% reduction in average emails sent, brands showcased diverse email strategies. Manscaped led with 21 emails, securing a good performance despite a high promotion percentage. Supply demonstrated excellence with a 72.5% email scoring and a balanced promotion approach. Hanni and Bevel maintained good performances, with Hanni exhibiting notable email scoring. Flamingo and Harrys faced challenges, with Harrys notably struggling with both a poor email scoring and a high promotion percentage.

Email Deliverability Insights: Leaf Shave demonstrated exceptional email deliverability with a significantly low spam score and a manageable email size. Harrys, despite a slightly increased spam score, maintained a good deliverability with a small email size. Manscaped struggled with both a high spam score and a large email size, impacting deliverability. Hanni faced challenges with fair deliverability, indicated by a decreased spam score and a large email size. BigMoustache faced issues with both spam score and email size, impacting overall deliverability. Estrid maintained good deliverability despite a significantly decreased spam score.

Ads Performance: The industry experienced a 6.54% increase in average ads published. Manscaped led in advertising with 121 new ads, showcasing diverse content and securing a strong presence. Harrys and Billie also demonstrated good advertising impact with 91 and 49 new ads, respectively. However, brands like OneBlade and BigMoustache struggled with both ad volume and content diversity. Leaf Shave, despite not engaging in social ads, maintained a solid position with exceptional deliverability.

Emails sent on average

4.6

Ads published on average

26

Average Spam Score

0.8

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 4.6 55.39%
Leaf Shave
1

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Harrys
4

❌ Poor

76.0%

✅ Good

Manscaped
21

✅ Good

37.0%

❌ Poor

Supply
10

✅ Good

72.5%

✅ Good

Bevel
8

✅ Good

66.38%

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
11

✅ Good

51.45%

⚠️ Fair

Dollar Shave Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billie
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo
5

⚠️ Fair

64.4%

✅ Good

OneBlade
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Balls
5

⚠️ Fair

63.6%

✅ Good

Estrid - UK
1

❌ Poor

79.0%

✅ Good

BigMoustache
3

❌ Poor

49.33%

❌ 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 -0.75 1,569.11 kb
Leaf Shave
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,016.13 kb

✅ Good

Harrys
✅ -2.75

✅ Good

266.57 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 2.59

❌ Poor

2,009.81 kb

❌ Poor

Supply
✅ -1.66

✅ Good

342.01 kb

✅ Good

Bevel
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

1,035.8 kb

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
✅ -0.67

⚠️ Fair

2,055.43 kb

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
- -
Billie
- -
Flamingo
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

909.81 kb

✅ Good

OneBlade
- -
Balls
✅ -1.1

✅ Good

2,848.17 kb

❌ Poor

Estrid - UK
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,411.01 kb

✅ Good

BigMoustache
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

3,154.39 kb

❌ Poor

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 26.07 6.67
Leaf Shave
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Harrys
91

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Manscaped
121

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Supply
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Bevel
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
47

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

-
Billie
49

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Flamingo
0

✅ Good

-
OneBlade
20

✅ Good

8

❌ Poor

Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
43

❌ Poor

-
BigMoustache
0

✅ Good

-
FFS
0

✅ 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 133 258 65.98%
Leaf Shave
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Harrys
43

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

52.75%
Manscaped
37

✅ Good

84

✅ Good

69.42%
Supply
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
Bevel
2

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

66.67%
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
17

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

63.83%
Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Billie
26

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

46.94%
Flamingo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
OneBlade
2

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

90.0%
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

100.0%
BigMoustache
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
FFS
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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