Shaving - March - 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

During the month of March, Manscaped dominated email marketing with 14 emails sent, followed by Supply with 11 emails. In terms of ad creation, Leaf Shave takes the lead with the highest number of new ads launched at 60, accompanied by 26 unique ad copies. Manscaped follows closely behind with 58 new ads created, but they have the highest number of unique ad copies at 37.

Regarding media preferences, Leaf Shave seems to be more focused on videos than images, with 43 videos and only 17 images used in their new ads. Meanwhile, Manscaped is more inclined towards images, having used 34 images and 24 videos in their new ads during the same period.

Emails sent on average

4.2

Ads published on average

14

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 4.2 56.81%
Leaf Shave
5

✅ Good

47.2%

❌ Poor

Harrys
3

❌ Poor

60.67%

⚠️ Fair

Manscaped
14

✅ Good

49.29%

❌ Poor

Supply
12

✅ Good

55.92%

⚠️ Fair

Bevel
3

❌ Poor

61.0%

⚠️ Fair

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
6

✅ Good

50.33%

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billie
2

❌ Poor

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

Flamingo
4

⚠️ Fair

60.5%

⚠️ Fair

OneBlade
9

✅ Good

70.44%

✅ Good

Balls
2

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
3

❌ Poor

74.0%

✅ Good

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 -1.47 2,293.65 kb
Leaf Shave
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

5,009.42 kb

❌ Poor

Harrys
✅ -2.43

✅ Good

811.21 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 2.08

❌ Poor

1,484.85 kb

✅ Good

Supply
✅ -3.29

✅ Good

4,174.71 kb

❌ Poor

Bevel
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

2,466.81 kb

⚠️ Fair

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
✅ -0.37

❌ Poor

1,385.6 kb

✅ Good

Dollar Shave Club
- -
Billie
✅ -1.9

✅ Good

2,760.78 kb

❌ Poor

Flamingo
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,233.12 kb

⚠️ Fair

OneBlade
✅ -1.67

✅ Good

844.18 kb

✅ Good

Balls
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

3,022.44 kb

❌ Poor

Estrid - UK
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

774.64 kb

✅ Good

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 14.07 6.53
Leaf Shave
30

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Harrys
0

✅ Good

-
Manscaped
58

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

Supply
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Bevel
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
22

❌ Poor

6

⚠️ Fair

Dollar Shave Club
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Billie
30

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Flamingo
36

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

OneBlade
0

✅ Good

-
Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

FFS
12

✅ 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 122 88 41.71%
Leaf Shave
9

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

70.0%
Harrys
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Manscaped
34

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

41.38%
Supply
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Bevel
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
5

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

77.27%
Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Billie
21

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

30.0%
Flamingo
31

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

11.11%
OneBlade
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
FFS
8

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

33.33%

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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