Shaving - February - 2024


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

May

2024

. 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 Performance: FFS demonstrates robust email marketing performance, sending 21 emails with good email scoring despite fair promotion rates, indicating consistent engagement efforts and effective audience targeting. Manscaped follows with 12 emails sent, showcasing good email scoring but poor promotion performance, suggesting opportunities for enhancing promotional strategies while maintaining engagement quality. Supply stands out with 11 emails sent, exhibiting both good email scoring and promotion rates, showcasing effective engagement tactics and strategic content delivery strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Leaf Shave leads in email deliverability with a good spam score and email size performance, ensuring effective content management and consistent inbox placement. Harrys maintains strong email deliverability with a good spam score and email size performance, indicating efficient content optimization practices and consistent inbox delivery. Manscaped exhibits fair email deliverability with a slight increase in spam score but good email size performance, suggesting opportunities for refining content optimization strategies while maintaining inbox placement consistency.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Harrys emerges as the leader in advertising impact and diversity with 117 impactful ads, showcasing both volume and variety in content, effectively positioning itself in the competitive shaving market. Manscaped closely follows with 59 impactful ads, reflecting robust advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively engaging with its target audience. Estrid maintains solid advertising impact with 50 impactful ads, exhibiting good diversity in new images and videos, indicating effective content variation and innovation strategies.

Emails sent on average

5.7

Ads published on average

28

Average Spam Score

0.3

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 5.67 52.96%
Leaf Shave
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Harrys
3

❌ Poor

68.0%

✅ Good

Manscaped
12

✅ Good

45.83%

❌ Poor

Supply
12

✅ Good

55.92%

⚠️ Fair

Bevel
13

✅ Good

61.92%

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
6

⚠️ Fair

43.0%

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billie
4

❌ Poor

65.25%

✅ Good

Flamingo
7

✅ Good

38.29%

❌ Poor

OneBlade
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Balls
4

❌ Poor

52.75%

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
5

❌ Poor

58.8%

✅ Good

BigMoustache
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

FFS
18

✅ Good

50.39%

⚠️ Fair

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 -0.25 2,383.09 kb
Leaf Shave
- -
Harrys
✅ -1.77

✅ Good

437.14 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 2.27

❌ Poor

1,338.79 kb

✅ Good

Supply
🟧 0.08

❌ Poor

2,787.71 kb

❌ Poor

Bevel
✅ -1.14

✅ Good

996.34 kb

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
✅ -0.52

✅ Good

2,324.83 kb

⚠️ Fair

Dollar Shave Club
- -
Billie
✅ -3.55

✅ Good

1,825.93 kb

✅ Good

Flamingo
⚠️ 6.67

❌ Poor

1,722.51 kb

✅ Good

OneBlade
- -
Balls
✅ -1.03

✅ Good

2,147.55 kb

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
✅ -1.1

✅ Good

4,183.91 kb

❌ Poor

BigMoustache
✅ -3.7

✅ Good

6.62 kb

✅ Good

FFS
✅ -2.91

✅ Good

4,219.68 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 28.4 7.47
Leaf Shave
28

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Harrys
58

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Manscaped
84

❌ Poor

18

❌ Poor

Supply
30

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Bevel
26

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
56

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
15

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Billie
50

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Flamingo
60

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

OneBlade
17

✅ Good

12

❌ Poor

Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
2

✅ Good

-
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 205 221 51.88%
Leaf Shave
21

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

25.0%
Harrys
31

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

46.55%
Manscaped
47

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

44.05%
Supply
30

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bevel
10

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

61.54%
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
33

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

41.07%
Dollar Shave Club
9

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

40.0%
Billie
2

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

96.0%
Flamingo
18

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

70.0%
OneBlade
4

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

76.47%
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

2

✅ 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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