Shaving - July - 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

July

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

During July, Manscaped remains at the forefront with 13 emails, and Flamingo closely follows with 12 emails.

In the realm of advertising, Harrys maintains its dominance, creating 122 new ads, while FFS trails behind with 56 new ads.

Regarding ad strategy, Harrys continues to emphasize videos, utilizing 76 videos and 46 images, while FFS focuses on images, using 49 images and only 7 videos.

Emails sent on average

5.4

Ads published on average

24

Average Spam Score

1.2

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 5.4 60.32%
Leaf Shave
6

✅ Good

51.83%

❌ Poor

Harrys
5

⚠️ Fair

75.2%

✅ Good

Manscaped
13

✅ Good

41.85%

❌ Poor

Supply
6

✅ Good

61.5%

⚠️ Fair

Bevel
12

✅ Good

59.08%

⚠️ Fair

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
6

✅ Good

50.67%

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billie
2

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

Flamingo
12

✅ Good

68.83%

✅ Good

OneBlade
11

✅ Good

76.73%

✅ Good

Balls
5

⚠️ Fair

57.2%

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
1

❌ Poor

63.0%

⚠️ Fair

BigMoustache
2

❌ Poor

69.5%

✅ Good

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 -1.23 1,336.2 kb
Leaf Shave
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

2,744.42 kb

❌ Poor

Harrys
✅ -4.48

✅ Good

568.04 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 2.47

❌ Poor

1,317.69 kb

⚠️ Fair

Supply
✅ -1.02

❌ Poor

852.72 kb

✅ Good

Bevel
✅ -0.98

❌ Poor

1,219.89 kb

⚠️ Fair

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
🟧 0.97

❌ Poor

1,422.08 kb

⚠️ Fair

Dollar Shave Club
- -
Billie
✅ -2.4

✅ Good

4,874.22 kb

❌ Poor

Flamingo
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

1,133.83 kb

✅ Good

OneBlade
✅ -1.27

⚠️ Fair

619.38 kb

✅ Good

Balls
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

1,746.88 kb

❌ Poor

Estrid - UK
✅ -4.6

✅ Good

2,321.69 kb

❌ Poor

BigMoustache
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

1,141.98 kb

✅ Good

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 24.07 7.2
Leaf Shave
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Harrys
122

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Manscaped
55

❌ Poor

24

❌ Poor

Supply
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Bevel
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

-
Billie
34

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Flamingo
45

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

OneBlade
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
21

✅ Good

7

⚠️ Fair

FFS
56

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

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 166 194 53.74%
Leaf Shave
1

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

85.71%
Harrys
46

✅ Good

76

✅ Good

62.3%
Manscaped
35

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

34.55%
Supply
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

83.33%
Bevel
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

83.33%
Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Billie
19

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

44.12%
Flamingo
5

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

88.89%
OneBlade
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
6

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

71.43%
FFS
49

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

12.5%

Ads detected over time

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