Sports Tech - March - 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

March

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 March, Oru Kayak took the lead in terms of the highest number of emails sent, sending 25 emails, followed by Theragun and Peloton with 21 and 19 respectively. On the other hand, Peloton outperformed other brands with a whopping 106 new ads launched and 53 unique ad copies used during the same period. Peloton's advertising strategy for new media predominantly involved images, which accounted for 61% of the media used, while the remaining 39% consisted of videos.

Emails sent on average

8.1

Ads published on average

19

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 8.07 55.67%
Tempo Fit
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Theragun
18

✅ Good

47.83%

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
25

✅ Good

60.2%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
2

❌ Poor

76.0%

✅ Good

Joovv
9

✅ Good

67.0%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
4

❌ Poor

50.25%

⚠️ Fair

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
8

⚠️ Fair

53.5%

⚠️ Fair

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
4

❌ Poor

46.75%

❌ Poor

Peloton
18

✅ Good

51.22%

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
9

✅ Good

56.67%

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
8

⚠️ Fair

35.13%

❌ Poor

Tonal
2

❌ Poor

79.5%

✅ Good

Crossnet
14

✅ Good

66.21%

✅ 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 -1.87 2,485.76 kb
Tempo Fit
- -
Theragun
✅ -2.22

✅ Good

3,497.44 kb

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
✅ -0.58

❌ Poor

664.93 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -3.8

✅ Good

1,500.85 kb

✅ Good

Joovv
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

1,568.65 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

4,120.97 kb

❌ Poor

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
✅ -1.3

❌ Poor

3,351.83 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -2.48

✅ Good

3,483.62 kb

❌ Poor

Peloton
✅ -2.8

✅ Good

3,399.53 kb

❌ Poor

FightCamp
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

2,977.0 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
🟧 1.83

❌ Poor

3,743.48 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -4.35

✅ Good

519.69 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

1,991.09 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 19.4 10.93
Tempo Fit
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Theragun
43

❌ Poor

20

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Quell
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Joovv
12

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Echelon
11

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Hydrow
27

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
106

❌ Poor

35

❌ Poor

FightCamp
18

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Ergatta
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Tonal
30

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Crossnet
6

✅ 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 90 134 54.69%
Tempo Fit
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Theragun
1

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

72.09%
Oru Kayak
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
Quell
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Joovv
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

50.0%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

100.0%
Echelon
6

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

45.45%
Wahoo Fitness
2

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
Hydrow
6

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

55.56%
Peloton
36

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

38.33%
FightCamp
11

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

33.33%
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Tonal
13

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

56.67%
Crossnet
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

83.33%

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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