Sports Tech - February - 2024


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

June

2024

. 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 Performance: Peloton and Hydrow lead in email marketing with 17 emails each, showing strong activity. Hydrow excels with high promotional engagement, unlike Peloton. Echelon and Ergatta follow with 16 and 11 emails, respectively. Oru Kayak also shows decent activity with 10 emails. Brands like Joovv and Tempo Fit sent fewer emails and need to improve engagement. FightCamp, Tonal, and Supersapiens are at the bottom with minimal email activity. Crossnet, Wahoo Fitness, Clmbr, Quell, and Therabody did not send any emails, indicating significant room for improvement.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Hydrow and Joovv excel in deliverability with spam scores of -3.03 and -3.0, respectively, and compact email sizes. Peloton also performs well with a score of -5.1 but has large email sizes that need addressing. Oru Kayak and Echelon show fair spam scores but need to improve email sizes. Brands like Supersapiens and FightCamp need significant improvements in both spam scores and email sizes. Tonal shows poor spam scores but manages good email size. Ergatta and Therabody require better email deliverability strategies to enhance performance.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Therabody dominates advertising with 70 new ads and 41 unique copies, showing high activity and diversity. Hydrow follows closely with 64 new ads but needs better copy diversity. Tempo Fit and Peloton also show strong ad activity with 58 and 55 new ads, respectively. Wahoo Fitness shows good ad activity but needs more unique copies. Brands like Ergatta, Echelon, and FightCamp need to increase both ad volume and diversity. Oru Kayak, Quell, and Tonal show minimal ad activity and need significant improvements. Crossnet, Clmbr, Supersapiens, and Joovv did not engage in advertising, indicating a need for strategic enhancements.

Emails sent on average

4.9

Ads published on average

25

Average Spam Score

1.5

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 4.87 56.08%
Tempo Fit
1

❌ Poor

34.0%

❌ Poor

Therabody (formerly Theragun)
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
5

⚠️ Fair

59.4%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
1

❌ Poor

55.0%

⚠️ Fair

Joovv
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Supersapiens
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
12

✅ Good

32.83%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
23

✅ Good

71.7%

✅ Good

Peloton
1

❌ Poor

85.0%

✅ Good

FightCamp
1

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
15

✅ Good

49.4%

❌ Poor

Tonal
14

✅ Good

56.14%

⚠️ Fair

Crossnet
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

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 -1.48 2,822.09 kb
Tempo Fit
- 2,858.82 kb

⚠️ Fair

Therabody (formerly Theragun)
- -
Oru Kayak
- 2,159.51 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

11,387.35 kb

❌ Poor

Joovv
- -
Supersapiens
- -
Clmbr
- -
Echelon
✅ -1.25

❌ Poor

4,573.82 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -1.93

✅ Good

1,058.92 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
✅ -5.6

✅ Good

278.83 kb

✅ Good

FightCamp
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

4,714.17 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
- 5,327.03 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.35

❌ Poor

1,202.1 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
- -

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 24.6 11.33
Tempo Fit
23

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

Therabody (formerly Theragun)
23

⚠️ Fair

16

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
72

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Quell
57

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Joovv
0

✅ Good

-
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
34

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
28

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Hydrow
47

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Peloton
54

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

FightCamp
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Ergatta
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Tonal
17

✅ Good

15

❌ Poor

Crossnet
3

✅ Good

1

✅ 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 186 183 49.59%
Tempo Fit
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

34.78%
Therabody (formerly Theragun)
12

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

47.83%
Oru Kayak
44

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

38.89%
Quell
36

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

36.84%
Joovv
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
8

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

76.47%
Wahoo Fitness
24

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

14.29%
Hydrow
27

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

42.55%
Peloton
5

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

90.74%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Ergatta
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Tonal
7

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

58.82%
Crossnet
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%

Ads detected over time

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