Skincare - April - 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.

Skincare

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Skincare

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.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

During April, Biossance and Boscia sent 34 and 29 emails, respectively. Meanwhile, Ren Skincare led in creating new ads with 52 new ads, followed by Anese with 38 new ads. Ren Skincare also had the highest number of ad copies used in its new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Anese focused more on images, creating 24 new images compared to 14 new videos. On the other hand, Ren Skincare preferred videos with 29 new videos compared to 23 new images in its new ads.

Emails sent on average

14.9

Ads published on average

19

Average Spam Score

2.0

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 14.87 56.01%
HeyDay
2

❌ Poor

62.5%

✅ Good

Tata Harper
18

✅ Good

43.28%

❌ Poor

Anese
21

✅ Good

68.19%

✅ Good

Activist Skincare
2

❌ Poor

48.5%

❌ Poor

Boscia
34

✅ Good

63.38%

✅ Good

OSKIA Skincare
6

❌ Poor

65.0%

✅ Good

KraveBeauty
7

❌ Poor

49.86%

❌ Poor

Curology
4

❌ Poor

67.5%

✅ Good

Kate Somerville
29

✅ Good

58.69%

⚠️ Fair

Pai Skincare
6

❌ Poor

69.67%

✅ Good

Dr. Brandt Skincare
16

⚠️ Fair

58.13%

⚠️ Fair

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
8

❌ Poor

57.25%

⚠️ Fair

cocokind
17

✅ Good

60.12%

⚠️ Fair

Biossance
34

✅ Good

36.82%

❌ Poor

Ren Skincare
19

✅ Good

58.47%

⚠️ 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 -1.98 1,652.65 kb
HeyDay
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,354.39 kb

❌ Poor

Tata Harper
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

4,993.0 kb

❌ Poor

Anese
✅ -1.73

❌ Poor

1,043.89 kb

✅ Good

Activist Skincare
- 2,185.39 kb

❌ Poor

Boscia
✅ -2.66

✅ Good

1,374.65 kb

✅ Good

OSKIA Skincare
✅ -0.4

❌ Poor

982.55 kb

✅ Good

KraveBeauty
✅ -1.2

❌ Poor

2,002.81 kb

❌ Poor

Curology
✅ -4.98

✅ Good

994.21 kb

✅ Good

Kate Somerville
✅ -2.19

✅ Good

1,094.44 kb

✅ Good

Pai Skincare
✅ -2.63

✅ Good

403.47 kb

✅ Good

Dr. Brandt Skincare
✅ -1.83

⚠️ Fair

1,236.35 kb

✅ Good

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
✅ -2.15

⚠️ Fair

2,186.32 kb

❌ Poor

cocokind
✅ -0.44

❌ Poor

895.29 kb

✅ Good

Biossance
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,828.4 kb

❌ Poor

Ren Skincare
✅ -2.47

✅ Good

1,485.2 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 18.87 11.33
HeyDay
30

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Tata Harper
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Anese
38

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Activist Skincare
0

✅ Good

-
Boscia
21

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

OSKIA Skincare
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

KraveBeauty
23

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Curology
30

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Kate Somerville
23

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Pai Skincare
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Dr. Brandt Skincare
18

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
24

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

cocokind
0

✅ Good

-
Biossance
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Ren Skincare
52

❌ Poor

14

❌ 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 123 160 56.54%
HeyDay
5

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

83.33%
Tata Harper
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Anese
24

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

36.84%
Activist Skincare
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Boscia
2

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

90.48%
OSKIA Skincare
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

16.67%
KraveBeauty
13

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

43.48%
Curology
17

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

43.33%
Kate Somerville
10

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

56.52%
Pai Skincare
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Dr. Brandt Skincare
11

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

38.89%
Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
3

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

87.5%
cocokind
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Biossance
1

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

75.0%
Ren Skincare
23

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

55.77%

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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