Sports Tech - October - 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

November

2023

. 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 Summary: In the Sports Tech industry, Hydrow emerges as a leader in email marketing. They not only send a significant number of emails but also maintain high email scoring. Tonal is another top performer with a good balance of emails sent and high email scoring. In contrast, brands like Echelon and Ergatta need to improve their email marketing performance, particularly in email scoring.

Email Deliverability Summary: Tempo Fit and Theragun stand out for their email deliverability. They have good average spam scores and fair email size optimization. However, Oru Kayak and Quell need to work on their email deliverability, as they have fair spam scores but face challenges in email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Theragun leads in advertising performance, with a high number of new ads detected and a variety of unique ad copies. Hydrow, Tempo Fit, and Tonal also perform well in advertising. Conversely, brands like FightCamp and Ergatta need to enhance their advertising efforts, with fewer new ads detected and limited ad diversity.

Social Ads Diversity Summary: Oru Kayak and Quell shine in social ad diversity, with a significant proportion of video assets in their ads. Hydrow and Peloton also perform well in this aspect. However, brands like Joovv and Supersapiens have limited social ad diversity, with a lack of video content in their ads.

Emails sent on average

5.3

Ads published on average

39

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 5.33 59.11%
Tempo Fit
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Theragun
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
9

✅ Good

60.33%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
3

❌ Poor

61.33%

⚠️ Fair

Joovv
6

✅ Good

71.83%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
3

❌ Poor

45.67%

❌ Poor

Clmbr
1

❌ Poor

43.0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
9

✅ Good

42.89%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
18

✅ Good

66.72%

✅ Good

Peloton
8

✅ Good

62.13%

⚠️ Fair

FightCamp
4

❌ Poor

47.0%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
8

✅ Good

40.75%

❌ Poor

Tonal
10

✅ Good

71.5%

✅ Good

Crossnet
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ 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 -2.65 2,281.22 kb
Tempo Fit
- -
Theragun
- -
Oru Kayak
✅ -3.31

✅ Good

2,449.59 kb

⚠️ Fair

Quell
✅ -2.93

✅ Good

3,123.64 kb

❌ Poor

Joovv
✅ -4.17

✅ Good

1,250.39 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

3,456.36 kb

❌ Poor

Clmbr
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

3,762.14 kb

❌ Poor

Echelon
🟧 0.22

❌ Poor

3,295.06 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- -
Hydrow
✅ -2.17

❌ Poor

1,057.71 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
✅ -5.09

✅ Good

3,488.77 kb

❌ Poor

FightCamp
- 3,170.96 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
- 4,428.78 kb

❌ Poor

Tonal
✅ -2.12

❌ Poor

458.78 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
- 140.8 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 39.07 14.4
Tempo Fit
76

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Theragun
101

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
47

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Quell
50

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Joovv
6

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
28

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
25

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Hydrow
78

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Peloton
54

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

FightCamp
16

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Ergatta
15

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Tonal
72

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Crossnet
18

✅ Good

8

✅ 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 259 320 54.61%
Tempo Fit
41

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

46.05%
Theragun
55

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

42.57%
Oru Kayak
14

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

70.21%
Quell
7

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

86.0%
Joovv
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
17

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

39.29%
Wahoo Fitness
15

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

40.0%
Hydrow
52

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

33.33%
Peloton
7

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

87.04%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

100.0%
Ergatta
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

20.0%
Tonal
37

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

48.61%
Crossnet
0

✅ Good

18

✅ 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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