Sports Tech - September - 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

October

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: Hydrow and Joovv lead the Sports Tech industry in email marketing. Hydrow stands out with a strong performance in both email scoring and promotions. Joovv, while excelling in email scoring and promotions, needs improvement in the promotion management area. Oru Kayak follows closely, showcasing good email scoring but struggling with promotions. Tonal and Echelon are performing well but face challenges in promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Hydrow excels in email deliverability with a low spam score and effective email size optimization. Quell and Tempo Fit demonstrate good deliverability but face challenges in email size optimization. Theragun, Oru Kayak, and Supersapiens need improvements in both spam score and email size optimization. Echelon and FightCamp lag behind in deliverability, struggling with both spam score and email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Hydrow dominates in advertising, displaying a high number of ads with diverse and effective copies. Tonal, Oru Kayak, and Wahoo Fitness also perform well, maintaining a good balance of ad velocity and unique copy. Peloton struggles in ad velocity and diversity, impacting its visibility. Brands like Tempo Fit and Clmbr face challenges in both ad velocity and copy diversity.

In conclusion, Hydrow leads the Sports Tech industry, excelling in both email marketing and advertising. Joovv and Oru Kayak follow closely but need refinement in certain areas. Tonal and Wahoo Fitness perform well but require improvements in promotions and ad diversity. Brands like Peloton, Echelon, and FightCamp need significant enhancements to compete effectively.

Emails sent on average

5.2

Ads published on average

28

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 5.2 57.9%
Tempo Fit
1

❌ Poor

48.0%

❌ Poor

Theragun
2

❌ Poor

64.5%

✅ Good

Oru Kayak
14

✅ Good

51.64%

❌ Poor

Quell
4

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

Joovv
10

✅ Good

73.4%

✅ Good

Supersapiens
2

❌ Poor

53.0%

⚠️ Fair

Clmbr
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Echelon
9

✅ Good

45.78%

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
4

❌ Poor

50.0%

❌ Poor

Hydrow
15

✅ Good

67.8%

✅ Good

Peloton
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

FightCamp
7

✅ Good

45.57%

❌ Poor

Ergatta
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Tonal
9

✅ Good

57.89%

⚠️ Fair

Crossnet
1

❌ Poor

75.0%

✅ 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 -1.89 1,829.83 kb
Tempo Fit
✅ -1.8

⚠️ Fair

2,175.53 kb

❌ Poor

Theragun
✅ -1.8

⚠️ Fair

3,024.51 kb

❌ Poor

Oru Kayak
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

2,632.46 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -0.38

❌ Poor

1,256.02 kb

✅ Good

Joovv
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

1,393.11 kb

✅ Good

Supersapiens
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,203.62 kb

❌ Poor

Clmbr
- -
Echelon
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

2,806.42 kb

❌ Poor

Wahoo Fitness
- 2,133.31 kb

❌ Poor

Hydrow
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

1,081.58 kb

✅ Good

Peloton
- -
FightCamp
- 2,738.16 kb

❌ Poor

Ergatta
- -
Tonal
✅ -0.27

❌ Poor

566.68 kb

✅ Good

Crossnet
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

3.64 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 27.93 10.8
Tempo Fit
23

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Theragun
23

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Oru Kayak
45

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Quell
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Joovv
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
12

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Wahoo Fitness
34

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Hydrow
117

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Peloton
30

⚠️ Fair

20

❌ Poor

FightCamp
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Ergatta
13

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Tonal
63

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Crossnet
35

❌ Poor

3

✅ 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 151 258 61.58%
Tempo Fit
1

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

95.65%
Theragun
16

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

21.74%
Oru Kayak
16

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

64.44%
Quell
2

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

85.71%
Joovv
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Supersapiens
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Clmbr
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Echelon
11

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

8.33%
Wahoo Fitness
25

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

26.47%
Hydrow
34

✅ Good

76

✅ Good

64.96%
Peloton
2

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

93.33%
FightCamp
0

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

100.0%
Ergatta
0

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

92.31%
Tonal
25

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

60.32%
Crossnet
14

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

60.0%

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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