Snacks - 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.

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

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: Misfits Health leads the snack industry in email marketing with the highest number of emails sent and good email scoring. However, it has a high percentage of promotions. Verb Energy also performs well in email marketing with a high email scoring and a lower percentage of promotions. Brands like Chomps and Kind Snacks are performing decently but need to work on reducing promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Verb Energy leads in email deliverability with the best average spam score and optimized email size. Other top performers in email deliverability include Misfits Health and Feed. However, some brands like Partake Foods and Perfect Snacks need to improve their email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Chomps is the leader in advertising with the highest number of new ads detected and a good unique copy performance. Perfect Snacks and Magic Spoon also perform well in advertising. Brands like Feed and Partake Foods need to focus more on their advertising efforts.

In summary, Misfits Health is the leader in email marketing, but Verb Energy excels in email deliverability. Chomps leads in advertising, while Perfect Snacks and Magic Spoon show promise. Brands like Partake Foods and Feed need to improve their advertising strategies.

Emails sent on average

5.8

Ads published on average

23

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 5.8 58.77%
Misfits Health
9

✅ Good

64.0%

⚠️ Fair

Verb Energy
4

❌ Poor

71.5%

✅ Good

Feed
6

⚠️ Fair

52.17%

❌ Poor

Partake Foods
1

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Chomps
15

✅ Good

54.93%

⚠️ Fair

Pulp Pantry
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Milk Bar
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Candy Club
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Kind Snacks
11

✅ Good

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Bokksu
1

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Schoolyard Snacks
8

✅ Good

55.38%

⚠️ Fair

Outstanding Foods
9

✅ Good

63.78%

⚠️ Fair

Perfect Snacks
6

⚠️ Fair

47.17%

❌ Poor

Magic Spoon
10

✅ Good

57.6%

⚠️ Fair

Aloha
7

✅ Good

61.86%

⚠️ 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 -1.81 2,664.74 kb
Misfits Health
✅ -2.18

✅ Good

3,690.54 kb

❌ Poor

Verb Energy
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

782.09 kb

✅ Good

Feed
✅ -2.38

✅ Good

2,351.73 kb

✅ Good

Partake Foods
✅ -2.3

✅ Good

7,739.3 kb

❌ Poor

Chomps
✅ -0.37

❌ Poor

3,034.16 kb

❌ Poor

Pulp Pantry
- -
Milk Bar
- -
Candy Club
- -
Kind Snacks
✅ -2.38

✅ Good

1,323.66 kb

✅ Good

Bokksu
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

605.55 kb

✅ Good

Schoolyard Snacks
✅ -1.09

❌ Poor

2,338.21 kb

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

3,653.74 kb

❌ Poor

Perfect Snacks
✅ -1.55

❌ Poor

2,559.85 kb

⚠️ Fair

Magic Spoon
✅ -2.64

✅ Good

2,813.96 kb

⚠️ Fair

Aloha
✅ -3.24

✅ Good

2,553.37 kb

⚠️ Fair

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 23.47 9.27
Misfits Health
14

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Verb Energy
10

✅ Good

10

⚠️ Fair

Feed
0

✅ Good

-
Partake Foods
0

✅ Good

-
Chomps
60

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Pulp Pantry
27

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Milk Bar
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Candy Club
0

✅ Good

-
Kind Snacks
21

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Bokksu
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Schoolyard Snacks
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Outstanding Foods
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Perfect Snacks
67

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

Magic Spoon
88

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Aloha
37

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 131 216 61.36%
Misfits Health
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

50.0%
Verb Energy
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

20.0%
Feed
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Partake Foods
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Chomps
35

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

41.67%
Pulp Pantry
0

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

100.0%
Milk Bar
5

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

28.57%
Candy Club
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Kind Snacks
21

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bokksu
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Schoolyard Snacks
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

50.0%
Outstanding Foods
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Perfect Snacks
35

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

41.79%
Magic Spoon
8

✅ Good

80

✅ Good

90.91%
Aloha
6

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

83.78%

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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