Snacks - October - 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.

Snacks

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

Snacks

industry, for the month of

October

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: Kind Snacks leads the snack industry in email marketing, closely followed by Schoolyard Snacks and Aloha. These brands exhibit strong performance in both email quantity and scoring. Perfect Snacks, Misfits Health, and Magic Spoon maintain a good balance, although Magic Spoon lags slightly in scoring. Chomps and Feed display fair performance but need improvement, while Verb Energy, Outstanding Foods, Pulp Pantry, Partake Foods, Bokksu, Milk Bar, and Candy Club are struggling, particularly in scoring and promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Misfits Health and Verb Energy excel in email deliverability, with low spam scores and optimal email sizes. Feed faces challenges in both aspects and needs strategic enhancements. Partake Foods, Chomps, Pulp Pantry, and Magic Spoon exhibit fair deliverability but require attention, especially in email size. Kind Snacks, Schoolyard Snacks, and Aloha demonstrate fair performance but need improvement in email size. Perfect Snacks, Outstanding Foods, and Perfect Snacks lag behind, facing challenges in both spam score and email size.

Ads Performance Summary: Perfect Snacks dominates the snack industry in ads performance, showcasing both velocity and diversity. Magic Spoon and Chomps follow closely, with Magic Spoon excelling in diverse copies. Verb Energy, Outstanding Foods, and Misfits Health maintain strong ad performances, combining both velocity and unique copies. Aloha exhibits potential but needs improvements, particularly in ad velocity. Kind Snacks, Partake Foods, and Schoolyard Snacks face challenges in both aspects and require strategic enhancements. Bokksu, Milk Bar, Pulp Pantry, Candy Club, Feed, and Kind Snacks lag behind and need to enhance their ads strategies for better overall performance.

Emails sent on average

6.1

Ads published on average

23

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 6.07 59.08%
Misfits Health
10

✅ Good

54.2%

⚠️ Fair

Verb Energy
5

❌ Poor

67.4%

✅ Good

Feed
6

⚠️ Fair

65.17%

✅ Good

Partake Foods
2

❌ Poor

28.0%

❌ Poor

Chomps
6

⚠️ Fair

70.33%

✅ Good

Pulp Pantry
4

❌ Poor

51.75%

❌ Poor

Milk Bar
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Candy Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kind Snacks
15

✅ Good

63.13%

⚠️ Fair

Bokksu
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Schoolyard Snacks
11

✅ Good

68.0%

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
4

❌ Poor

42.5%

❌ Poor

Perfect Snacks
10

✅ Good

54.3%

⚠️ Fair

Magic Spoon
8

✅ Good

55.38%

⚠️ Fair

Aloha
10

✅ Good

57.0%

⚠️ 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 -2.03 1,853.24 kb
Misfits Health
✅ -0.95

❌ Poor

3,500.2 kb

❌ Poor

Verb Energy
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

883.47 kb

✅ Good

Feed
✅ -4.37

✅ Good

3,752.93 kb

❌ Poor

Partake Foods
🟧 1.5

❌ Poor

3,134.12 kb

❌ Poor

Chomps
✅ -2.7

✅ Good

1,536.87 kb

✅ Good

Pulp Pantry
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

1,319.15 kb

✅ Good

Milk Bar
- -
Candy Club
- -
Kind Snacks
✅ -1.53

❌ Poor

506.0 kb

✅ Good

Bokksu
- -
Schoolyard Snacks
✅ -2.72

✅ Good

1,296.37 kb

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
🟧 1.05

❌ Poor

1,693.39 kb

⚠️ Fair

Perfect Snacks
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

2,289.86 kb

❌ Poor

Magic Spoon
✅ -2.03

⚠️ Fair

2,241.17 kb

❌ Poor

Aloha
✅ -2.34

✅ Good

1,649.0 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 23.27 9.0
Misfits Health
21

⚠️ Fair

15

❌ Poor

Verb Energy
32

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Feed
0

✅ Good

-
Partake Foods
18

✅ Good

10

❌ Poor

Chomps
48

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Pulp Pantry
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Milk Bar
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Candy Club
0

✅ Good

-
Kind Snacks
19

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Bokksu
13

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Schoolyard Snacks
0

✅ Good

-
Outstanding Foods
26

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Perfect Snacks
77

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Magic Spoon
54

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Aloha
20

✅ 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 151 196 56.16%
Misfits Health
7

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

61.9%
Verb Energy
5

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

84.38%
Feed
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Partake Foods
4

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

72.22%
Chomps
31

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

35.42%
Pulp Pantry
0

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

100.0%
Milk Bar
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

16.67%
Candy Club
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kind Snacks
19

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bokksu
0

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

100.0%
Schoolyard Snacks
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Outstanding Foods
12

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

53.85%
Perfect Snacks
53

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

31.17%
Magic Spoon
6

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

88.89%
Aloha
4

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

80.0%

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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