Sports Tech - August - 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

September

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

In August, Theragun and Oru Kayak maintained their lead in emails, sending 16 and 15 emails, respectively.

Looking at advertising, Peloton and Oru Kayak shared the top spot. Peloton created 118 new ads, boasting the highest number of ad copies at 55 for the month. Oru Kayak followed closely with 60 new ads launched.

In terms of their advertising strategy, both Peloton and Oru Kayak favored videos over images. Peloton used 74 videos compared to 43 images, while Oru Kayak employed 39 videos against 21 images.

Emails sent on average

6.0

Ads published on average

26

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 6.0 55.68%
Tempo Fit
2

❌ Poor

57.0%

⚠️ Fair

Theragun
16

✅ Good

52.06%

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
15

✅ Good

55.07%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
2

❌ Poor

50.0%

❌ Poor

Joovv
2

❌ Poor

69.0%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
6

⚠️ Fair

47.5%

❌ Poor

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
10

✅ Good

50.0%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
12

✅ Good

55.42%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
2

❌ Poor

50.0%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
1

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Tonal
12

✅ Good

62.5%

✅ Good

Crossnet
10

✅ Good

64.2%

✅ 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 -1.92 2,682.45 kb
Tempo Fit
✅ -2.8

✅ Good

5,913.84 kb

❌ Poor

Theragun
✅ -2.19

✅ Good

3,510.37 kb

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
✅ -3.02

✅ Good

5,257.52 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

2,199.1 kb

✅ Good

Joovv
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

2,304.28 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -1.37

❌ Poor

3,287.84 kb

❌ Poor

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
✅ -2.22

✅ Good

2,178.32 kb

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -1.11

❌ Poor

1,015.54 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
- -
FightCamp
- 3,015.7 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
✅ -1.3

❌ Poor

878.7 kb

✅ Good

Tonal
✅ -0.71

❌ Poor

777.46 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
✅ -1.93

⚠️ Fair

1,562.12 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 25.6 11.0
Tempo Fit
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Theragun
58

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Oru Kayak
60

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Quell
27

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Joovv
11

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Hydrow
27

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

Peloton
118

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

FightCamp
0

✅ Good

-
Ergatta
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Tonal
50

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Crossnet
16

✅ Good

2

✅ 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 124 246 64.06%
Tempo Fit
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Theragun
16

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

50.0%
Oru Kayak
21

✅ Good

39

✅ Good

65.0%
Quell
3

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

88.89%
Joovv
8

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

27.27%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Wahoo Fitness
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
Hydrow
0

✅ Good

27

✅ Good

100.0%
Peloton
43

✅ Good

74

✅ Good

62.71%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Tonal
18

✅ Good

32

✅ Good

64.0%
Crossnet
2

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

87.5%

Ads detected over time

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