Sports Tech - May - 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

June

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 May, Theragun and Peloton remain the frontrunners in email communication, with Theragun sending 22 emails and Peloton following closely with 17 emails. As for advertising, Peloton takes the lead with 164 new ads and 104 unique ad copies. Theragun is not far behind, creating 111 new ads. Peloton adopts a well-rounded ad strategy with 77 videos and 72 images, while Theragun prioritizes videos, featuring 71 videos and 24 images in their campaigns.

Emails sent on average

7.9

Ads published on average

42

Average Spam Score

1.3

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 7.93 50.6%
Tempo Fit
5

❌ Poor

30.0%

❌ Poor

Theragun
22

✅ Good

44.18%

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Quell
4

❌ Poor

43.5%

❌ Poor

Joovv
9

✅ Good

55.11%

⚠️ Fair

Supersapiens
6

❌ Poor

53.67%

⚠️ Fair

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
15

✅ Good

58.53%

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
10

✅ Good

48.9%

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
17

✅ Good

48.82%

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
5

❌ Poor

58.0%

✅ Good

Ergatta
9

✅ Good

36.22%

❌ Poor

Tonal
9

✅ Good

57.22%

✅ Good

Crossnet
8

⚠️ Fair

72.38%

✅ 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 -1.29 2,715.52 kb
Tempo Fit
🟧 0.6

❌ Poor

3,482.51 kb

❌ Poor

Theragun
✅ -0.82

❌ Poor

2,447.4 kb

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
- -
Quell
🟧 1.38

❌ Poor

7,356.82 kb

❌ Poor

Joovv
✅ -1.67

✅ Good

1,709.43 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

4,131.31 kb

❌ Poor

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
✅ -1.61

✅ Good

2,417.67 kb

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -1.7

✅ Good

2,498.61 kb

⚠️ Fair

Peloton
✅ -4.08

✅ Good

3,147.63 kb

❌ Poor

FightCamp
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

2,690.09 kb

⚠️ Fair

Ergatta
🟧 1.48

❌ Poor

4,063.47 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -0.82

❌ Poor

915.26 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
✅ -1.35

⚠️ Fair

1,158.93 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 41.67 18.73
Tempo Fit
0

✅ Good

-
Theragun
111

❌ Poor

19

⚠️ Fair

Oru Kayak
54

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Quell
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Joovv
14

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
20

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
17

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

Hydrow
99

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Peloton
164

❌ Poor

78

❌ Poor

FightCamp
49

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Ergatta
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Tonal
76

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Crossnet
12

✅ 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 225 363 58.08%
Tempo Fit
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Theragun
24

✅ Good

71

✅ Good

63.96%
Oru Kayak
14

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

74.07%
Quell
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
Joovv
12

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

35.0%
Wahoo Fitness
15

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

11.76%
Hydrow
24

✅ Good

72

✅ Good

72.73%
Peloton
72

✅ Good

77

✅ Good

46.95%
FightCamp
2

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

93.88%
Ergatta
1

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

80.0%
Tonal
45

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

40.79%
Crossnet
0

✅ Good

12

✅ 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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