Sports Tech - July - 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

August

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 July, Theragun retains its leadership in emails with a total of 37 emails, followed by Oru Kayak with 22 emails.

In terms of advertising, Peloton takes the lead with 136 new ads created and utilizing the highest number of ad copies (58). Oru Kayak secures the second position with 70 new ads.

Concerning ad strategy, both Peloton and Oru Kayak prioritized videos this month. Peloton employs 99 videos vs. 37 images, and Oru Kayak employed 55 videos vs. 15 images.

Emails sent on average

7.7

Ads published on average

31

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 7.67 54.01%
Tempo Fit
8

⚠️ Fair

48.75%

⚠️ Fair

Theragun
37

✅ Good

54.97%

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
22

✅ Good

57.18%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
7

⚠️ Fair

48.0%

❌ Poor

Joovv
3

❌ Poor

73.33%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
4

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
4

❌ Poor

37.75%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
11

✅ Good

48.73%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
2

❌ Poor

34.0%

❌ Poor

Tonal
7

⚠️ Fair

63.14%

✅ Good

Crossnet
10

✅ Good

56.8%

⚠️ 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 -1.75 3,158.69 kb
Tempo Fit
🟧 0.02

❌ Poor

2,875.79 kb

⚠️ Fair

Theragun
✅ -1.73

⚠️ Fair

2,995.37 kb

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
✅ -1.82

⚠️ Fair

2,284.27 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -3.56

✅ Good

11,500.16 kb

❌ Poor

Joovv
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

1,038.88 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -3.55

✅ Good

3,368.49 kb

⚠️ Fair

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
🟧 1.25

❌ Poor

3,822.02 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -1.54

❌ Poor

2,953.69 kb

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
- -
FightCamp
- -
Ergatta
🟧 1.2

❌ Poor

4,116.48 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.77

❌ Poor

781.43 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
✅ -2.73

✅ Good

2,058.75 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 31.4 12.67
Tempo Fit
0

✅ Good

-
Theragun
62

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Oru Kayak
70

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Quell
29

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

Joovv
32

⚠️ Fair

27

❌ Poor

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
15

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Hydrow
66

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Peloton
136

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

FightCamp
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Ergatta
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Tonal
33

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

Crossnet
6

✅ 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 119 326 69.21%
Tempo Fit
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Theragun
7

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

61.29%
Oru Kayak
15

✅ Good

55

✅ Good

78.57%
Quell
6

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

79.31%
Joovv
12

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

40.63%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Wahoo Fitness
11

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

26.67%
Hydrow
1

✅ Good

65

✅ Good

98.48%
Peloton
37

✅ Good

99

✅ Good

72.79%
FightCamp
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

83.33%
Tonal
20

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

39.39%
Crossnet
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%

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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