Sportswear - April - 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.

Sport Wear

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Sport Wear

industry, for the month of

April

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

To start with, Kuiu remained the top contender for the number of emails sent with 35 emails during April. Meanwhile, Short Par 4 sent 31 emails during the same period.

In terms of ad campaigns, Sport Check is the front-runner with 56 new ads launched in April, followed by Columbia Sportswear with 55 new ads.

Sport Check has given preference to images in its new ads, having 41 new images and only 6 new videos. Columbia Sportswear, on the other hand, has a nearly equal amount of images and videos, with 30 new images and 23 new videos.

Emails sent on average

15.3

Ads published on average

28

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 15.33 54.12%
Kuiu
35

✅ Good

49.91%

⚠️ Fair

Short Par 4
31

✅ Good

65.13%

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
11

❌ Poor

42.55%

❌ Poor

Berghaus
8

❌ Poor

61.38%

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
7

❌ Poor

68.43%

✅ Good

Musto
13

❌ Poor

56.92%

⚠️ Fair

TREW
13

❌ Poor

46.46%

❌ Poor

ciele
12

❌ Poor

49.5%

⚠️ Fair

FootJoy
9

❌ Poor

60.67%

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
12

❌ Poor

50.42%

⚠️ Fair

Janji - UK
6

❌ Poor

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Sport Chek
17

✅ Good

36.59%

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
20

✅ Good

68.8%

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
26

✅ Good

50.12%

⚠️ Fair

SAYSKY
10

❌ Poor

54.1%

⚠️ 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 -2.74 5,112.8 kb
Kuiu
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

15,866.17 kb

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
✅ -1.83

❌ Poor

1,373.79 kb

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
✅ -0.45

❌ Poor

7,336.15 kb

❌ Poor

Berghaus
✅ -2.6

⚠️ Fair

706.2 kb

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
✅ -1.96

❌ Poor

2,247.18 kb

✅ Good

Musto
✅ -2.02

❌ Poor

1,958.2 kb

✅ Good

TREW
✅ -1.45

❌ Poor

3,750.59 kb

✅ Good

ciele
✅ -2.47

⚠️ Fair

1,686.25 kb

✅ Good

FootJoy
✅ -2.88

⚠️ Fair

1,762.92 kb

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
✅ -2.93

⚠️ Fair

6,395.19 kb

❌ Poor

Janji - UK
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

7,733.19 kb

❌ Poor

Sport Chek
✅ -2.55

⚠️ Fair

2,487.21 kb

✅ Good

Columbia Sportswear
✅ -10.1

✅ Good

55.5 kb

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
✅ -1.88

❌ Poor

6,378.44 kb

❌ Poor

SAYSKY
✅ -1.57

❌ Poor

3,327.48 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 27.87 12.13
Kuiu
28

⚠️ Fair

15

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
15

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Berghaus
0

✅ Good

-
Malbon Golf
30

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

Musto
19

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

TREW
13

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

ciele
33

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

FootJoy
30

⚠️ Fair

5

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Janji - UK
42

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Sport Chek
56

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
55

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
30

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

SAYSKY
54

❌ 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 290 113 27.03%
Kuiu
21

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

25.0%
Short Par 4
14

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

6.67%
Bad Birdie
0

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

100.0%
Berghaus
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Malbon Golf
27

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

6.67%
Musto
11

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

42.11%
TREW
9

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

30.77%
ciele
26

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

12.12%
FootJoy
26

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

13.33%
Mountain Hardwear
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

100.0%
Janji - UK
7

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

83.33%
Sport Chek
41

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

10.71%
Columbia Sportswear
30

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

41.82%
Ten Thousand
24

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

20.0%
SAYSKY
54

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

Ads detected over time

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