Sports Tech - 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.

Sports Tech

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

Sports Tech

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, Theragun took the lead in terms of the number of emails sent with 24 emails, followed by Peloton with 16 emails. Theragun also led in the number of ads launched with 49 new ads created in April, followed by Oru Kayak with 44 new ads. Regarding the ad strategy, Theragun focused on using videos with 44 new videos and only 2 new images in its new ads, while Oru Kayak emphasized using images with 35 new images and 9 new videos.

Emails sent on average

6.5

Ads published on average

16

Average Spam Score

1.4

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 6.53 49.49%
Tempo Fit
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Theragun
24

✅ Good

48.5%

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
3

❌ Poor

42.33%

❌ Poor

Quell
4

❌ Poor

69.5%

✅ Good

Joovv
9

✅ Good

62.44%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
2

❌ Poor

32.5%

❌ Poor

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
13

✅ Good

52.85%

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
7

⚠️ Fair

54.29%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
16

✅ Good

42.13%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
3

❌ Poor

44.67%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
9

✅ Good

34.56%

❌ Poor

Tonal
5

❌ Poor

49.0%

⚠️ Fair

Crossnet
3

❌ Poor

74.33%

✅ 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 -1.35 3,292.57 kb
Tempo Fit
- -
Theragun
✅ -2.8

✅ Good

3,610.95 kb

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
🟧 1.77

❌ Poor

2,065.87 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -1.35

⚠️ Fair

698.91 kb

✅ Good

Joovv
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

1,881.1 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -0.6

❌ Poor

2,959.48 kb

✅ Good

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
🟧 0.64

❌ Poor

3,838.79 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -2.11

✅ Good

1,816.73 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
✅ -2.55

✅ Good

4,252.77 kb

❌ Poor

FightCamp
✅ -1.7

✅ Good

7,987.55 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
🟧 2.03

❌ Poor

4,291.66 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
🟧 0.64

❌ Poor

1,828.26 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
✅ -2.77

✅ Good

590.78 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 16.27 8.87
Tempo Fit
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Theragun
49

❌ Poor

9

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
44

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Quell
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Joovv
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
14

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Echelon
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
29

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Hydrow
21

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Peloton
30

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

FightCamp
14

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Ergatta
12

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Tonal
0

✅ Good

-
Crossnet
8

✅ Good

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 101 134 54.92%
Tempo Fit
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Theragun
2

✅ Good

44

✅ Good

89.8%
Oru Kayak
35

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

20.45%
Quell
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Joovv
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

100.0%
Echelon
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

30.0%
Wahoo Fitness
23

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

20.69%
Hydrow
10

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

52.38%
Peloton
11

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

63.33%
FightCamp
4

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

71.43%
Ergatta
5

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
Tonal
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Crossnet
1

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

87.5%

Ads detected over time

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