Socks - June - 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.

Socks

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

Socks

industry, for the month of

July

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 the month of June, Bombas retained its position as the leader in emails, sending a total of 21 emails. Sock Shop followed behind in the second position with 14 emails sent.

In terms of advertising, Happy Socks continued to maintain its leadership by creating 59 new ads. Sock Shop secured the second position with 51 new ads, and it used the highest number of ad copies among the brands of the benchmark this month.

Regarding ad strategy, both Happy Socks and Sock Shop favored the use of images over videos. Happy Socks utilized 36 images compared to 23 videos, while Sock Shop relied only on 42 images.

Emails sent on average

10.1

Ads published on average

21

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 10.07 55.4%
Sporcks
8

❌ Poor

53.25%

⚠️ Fair

Stzy
7

❌ Poor

67.14%

✅ Good

Bombas
21

✅ Good

63.76%

✅ Good

Stance Socks
13

✅ Good

36.85%

❌ Poor

Comrad Socks
11

⚠️ Fair

64.09%

✅ Good

Stand4 Socks
2

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Happy Socks
9

❌ Poor

67.22%

✅ Good

Hot Sox
9

❌ Poor

49.78%

❌ Poor

Fox River
9

❌ Poor

42.56%

❌ Poor

Nice Laundry
8

❌ Poor

74.5%

✅ Good

Wigwam Socks
13

✅ Good

48.38%

❌ Poor

Sock Shop
14

✅ Good

46.93%

❌ Poor

Socks Addict
8

❌ Poor

75.88%

✅ Good

John's Crazy Socks
12

✅ Good

43.75%

❌ Poor

K. Bell Socks
7

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ 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 -2.13 2,680.29 kb
Sporcks
✅ -2.2

⚠️ Fair

2,899.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

Stzy
✅ -1.9

❌ Poor

1,079.23 kb

✅ Good

Bombas
✅ -2.48

✅ Good

1,201.89 kb

✅ Good

Stance Socks
✅ -0.2

❌ Poor

4,777.59 kb

❌ Poor

Comrad Socks
✅ -3.04

✅ Good

1,488.66 kb

✅ Good

Stand4 Socks
🟧 1.85

❌ Poor

1,194.43 kb

✅ Good

Happy Socks
✅ -7.88

✅ Good

1,412.85 kb

✅ Good

Hot Sox
✅ -0.66

❌ Poor

2,583.99 kb

⚠️ Fair

Fox River
✅ -0.13

❌ Poor

2,419.82 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nice Laundry
✅ -1.16

❌ Poor

713.27 kb

✅ Good

Wigwam Socks
✅ -1.55

❌ Poor

3,919.88 kb

❌ Poor

Sock Shop
✅ -1.94

⚠️ Fair

1,856.09 kb

✅ Good

Socks Addict
✅ -2.98

✅ Good

672.74 kb

✅ Good

John's Crazy Socks
✅ -1.73

❌ Poor

5,438.41 kb

❌ Poor

K. Bell Socks
✅ -3.6

✅ Good

8,117.09 kb

❌ Poor

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 20.67 9.73
Sporcks
21

⚠️ Fair

19

❌ Poor

Stzy
8

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Bombas
16

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Stance Socks
0

✅ Good

-
Comrad Socks
44

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Stand4 Socks
8

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Happy Socks
59

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Hot Sox
22

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Fox River
42

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Nice Laundry
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Wigwam Socks
0

✅ Good

-
Sock Shop
51

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Socks Addict
0

✅ Good

-
John's Crazy Socks
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

K. Bell Socks
28

❌ Poor

9

⚠️ Fair

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.

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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