Skincare - 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.

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.

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Highlights & Summary

During the month of March, Biossance and Kate Somerville sent the same number of promotional emails, with 34 each. Biossance's emails were entirely promotional in nature.

In terms of new ads created, Curology produced the most with 30 new ads, followed by Dr. Brandt Skincare with 29 new ads, featuring 15 ad copies, the most among all the brands.

Curology utilized more videos than images in its ads, with 25 videos and only 4 images, while Dr. Brandt Skincare preferred images over videos, featuring 18 images and 11 videos in its ads this month.

Emails sent on average

15.1

Ads published on average

11

Average Spam Score

1.7

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 15.07 56.45%
HeyDay
2

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

Tata Harper
19

✅ Good

42.95%

❌ Poor

Anese
19

✅ Good

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Activist Skincare
2

❌ Poor

49.0%

❌ Poor

Boscia
33

✅ Good

63.42%

✅ Good

OSKIA Skincare
5

❌ Poor

64.0%

✅ Good

KraveBeauty
7

❌ Poor

58.14%

⚠️ Fair

Curology
6

❌ Poor

72.17%

✅ Good

Kate Somerville
34

✅ Good

61.62%

⚠️ Fair

Pai Skincare
2

❌ Poor

83.5%

✅ Good

Dr. Brandt Skincare
14

⚠️ Fair

55.57%

⚠️ Fair

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
9

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

cocokind
26

✅ Good

59.69%

⚠️ Fair

Biossance
34

✅ Good

37.38%

❌ Poor

Ren Skincare
14

⚠️ Fair

64.29%

✅ Good

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 -1.68 1,672.26 kb
HeyDay
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

3,547.98 kb

❌ Poor

Tata Harper
✅ -1.07

❌ Poor

5,461.89 kb

❌ Poor

Anese
✅ -1.03

❌ Poor

1,249.1 kb

✅ Good

Activist Skincare
🟧 3.9

❌ Poor

1,948.41 kb

❌ Poor

Boscia
✅ -2.57

✅ Good

1,201.88 kb

✅ Good

OSKIA Skincare
✅ -0.32

❌ Poor

1,000.27 kb

✅ Good

KraveBeauty
✅ -1.43

❌ Poor

3,198.31 kb

❌ Poor

Curology
✅ -4.92

✅ Good

761.8 kb

✅ Good

Kate Somerville
✅ -2.41

✅ Good

1,260.69 kb

✅ Good

Pai Skincare
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

304.06 kb

✅ Good

Dr. Brandt Skincare
✅ -1.19

❌ Poor

1,360.99 kb

✅ Good

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
✅ -2.01

✅ Good

2,112.24 kb

❌ Poor

cocokind
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

837.18 kb

✅ Good

Biossance
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,522.45 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ren Skincare
✅ -2.17

✅ Good

910.01 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 11.13 6.07
HeyDay
0

✅ Good

-
Tata Harper
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Anese
22

❌ Poor

7

❌ Poor

Activist Skincare
0

✅ Good

-
Boscia
0

✅ Good

-
OSKIA Skincare
14

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

KraveBeauty
23

❌ Poor

8

❌ Poor

Curology
30

❌ Poor

7

❌ Poor

Kate Somerville
0

✅ Good

-
Pai Skincare
0

✅ Good

-
Dr. Brandt Skincare
29

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
15

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

cocokind
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Biossance
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Ren Skincare
22

❌ Poor

8

❌ 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 66 100 59.88%
HeyDay
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Tata Harper
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

40.0%
Anese
9

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

59.09%
Activist Skincare
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Boscia
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
OSKIA Skincare
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

14.29%
KraveBeauty
6

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

73.91%
Curology
4

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

83.33%
Kate Somerville
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Pai Skincare
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Dr. Brandt Skincare
18

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

37.93%
Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare
3

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

80.0%
cocokind
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Biossance
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Ren Skincare
8

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

63.64%

Ads detected over time

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