Shaving - September - 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

September

2023

. 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 Summary: Manscaped leads the shaving industry in email marketing, sending the most emails with a good email scoring. Leaf Shave and FFS also perform well in email marketing. Brands like Boldking and Dollar Shave Club have not been active in email marketing.

Email Deliverability Summary: Leaf Shave excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. Harrys also performs well in email deliverability. Manscaped needs to improve its spam score.

Ads Performance Summary: Harrys dominates in advertising, with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Manscaped and Billie also perform well in advertising. Brands like Balls and Dollar Shave Club have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, Manscaped leads in email marketing, Leaf Shave excels in email deliverability, and Harrys dominates in advertising within the shaving industry. However, some brands like Boldking and Dollar Shave Club need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

5.6

Ads published on average

20

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 5.6 58.26%
Leaf Shave
10

✅ Good

56.5%

⚠️ Fair

Harrys
3

❌ Poor

72.33%

✅ Good

Manscaped
15

✅ Good

41.6%

❌ Poor

Supply
9

✅ Good

70.56%

✅ Good

Bevel
7

✅ Good

67.0%

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hanni
9

✅ Good

52.11%

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Billie
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Flamingo
7

✅ Good

58.29%

⚠️ Fair

OneBlade
9

✅ Good

80.11%

✅ Good

Balls
3

❌ Poor

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Estrid - UK
2

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

BigMoustache
1

❌ Poor

48.0%

❌ Poor

FFS
9

✅ Good

52.22%

❌ 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 -1.08 1,405.49 kb
Leaf Shave
✅ -2.42

✅ Good

2,333.98 kb

❌ Poor

Harrys
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

176.2 kb

✅ Good

Manscaped
🟧 2.88

❌ Poor

1,719.9 kb

❌ Poor

Supply
✅ -0.01

❌ Poor

706.22 kb

✅ Good

Bevel
✅ -2.24

✅ Good

992.99 kb

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
- -
Hanni
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

1,915.26 kb

❌ Poor

Dollar Shave Club
- -
Billie
- -
Flamingo
✅ -2.96

✅ Good

1,615.4 kb

❌ Poor

OneBlade
✅ -3.68

✅ Good

558.83 kb

✅ Good

Balls
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,565.93 kb

❌ Poor

Estrid - UK
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,646.46 kb

❌ Poor

BigMoustache
🟧 1.2

❌ Poor

1,143.27 kb

✅ Good

FFS
✅ -2.59

✅ Good

1,042.08 kb

✅ Good

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 19.53 7.0
Leaf Shave
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Harrys
83

❌ Poor

8

❌ Poor

Manscaped
47

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Supply
11

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Bevel
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
9

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

-
Billie
45

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Flamingo
20

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

OneBlade
27

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Balls
0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
18

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

FFS
11

✅ 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 161 129 44.03%
Leaf Shave
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

25.0%
Harrys
58

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

27.71%
Manscaped
27

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

42.55%
Supply
10

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

9.09%
Bevel
2

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

80.0%
Boldking - EN
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Hanni
1

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

88.89%
Dollar Shave Club
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Billie
29

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

35.56%
Flamingo
6

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

70.0%
OneBlade
14

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

48.15%
Balls
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Estrid - UK
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
BigMoustache
1

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

94.44%
FFS
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

54.55%

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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