Sports Tech - January - 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

March

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: Hydrow leads in email marketing with 22 emails sent, boasting excellent email scoring and minimal promotions, showcasing a strong email marketing strategy. Ergatta and Peloton follow with 12 emails each, demonstrating potential but requiring improvements in email scoring and promotional diversity to solidify their positions as top performers. Oru Kayak showcases effective email marketing with 11 emails, displaying good email scoring and promotional diversity.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Tempo Fit exhibits fair email deliverability with a decent spam score but requires improvements in email size management for optimal performance. Oru Kayak showcases positive email deliverability with a good spam score and efficient email size management, positioning itself as a top performer in this aspect. Quell leads in email deliverability with a good spam score and effective email size management, distinguishing itself as a leader in the industry.

Advertising Performance: Peloton leads in advertising impact with 73 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence in the sports tech industry. Theragun closely follows with 70 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and a high proportion of video content. Hydrow exhibits solid advertising impact with 55 impactful ads, emphasizing a balance between volume and diversity in ad content. Echelon presents promising advertising strategies with 33 impactful ads, emphasizing a balance between volume and diversity in ad content.

Emails sent on average

5.7

Ads published on average

27

Average Spam Score

2.7

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 5.73 54.22%
Tempo Fit
9

✅ Good

42.78%

❌ Poor

Theragun
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
11

✅ Good

60.82%

✅ Good

Quell
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

Joovv
5

❌ Poor

71.8%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
1

❌ Poor

50.0%

⚠️ Fair

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
9

✅ Good

37.67%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
22

✅ Good

70.95%

✅ Good

Peloton
12

✅ Good

46.83%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
3

❌ Poor

50.67%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
12

✅ Good

36.17%

❌ Poor

Tonal
1

❌ Poor

79.0%

✅ Good

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 -2.67 2,592.69 kb
Tempo Fit
- 2,617.78 kb

⚠️ Fair

Theragun
- -
Oru Kayak
✅ -2.27

❌ Poor

1,420.36 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

4,261.73 kb

❌ Poor

Joovv
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

1,263.21 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

6,470.14 kb

❌ Poor

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
🟧 0.03

❌ Poor

3,153.04 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -3.41

✅ Good

1,658.64 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
✅ -10.1

✅ Good

3,140.61 kb

❌ Poor

FightCamp
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

5,289.42 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
- 4,008.42 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

215.18 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 26.87 11.93
Tempo Fit
35

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Theragun
70

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Quell
15

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Joovv
0

✅ Good

-
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
33

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
35

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Hydrow
55

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Peloton
73

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

FightCamp
25

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

Ergatta
14

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Tonal
33

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Crossnet
0

✅ 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 223 180 44.67%
Tempo Fit
15

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

57.14%
Theragun
54

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

22.86%
Oru Kayak
1

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

93.33%
Quell
4

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

73.33%
Joovv
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
33

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Wahoo Fitness
24

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

31.43%
Hydrow
43

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

21.82%
Peloton
24

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

67.12%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

100.0%
Ergatta
7

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

50.0%
Tonal
18

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

45.45%
Crossnet
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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