Sportswear - August - 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

September

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In August, Kuiu and Short Par 4 maintained their lead in emails, with Kuiu sending 42 and Short Par 4 sending 30 emails.

Turning to advertising, SAYSKY took the lead by creating 102 new ads, while Sport Chek secured the second position with 84 new ads, boasting the highest number of ad copies at 38.

Regarding their advertising approach, both SAYSKY and Sport Check leaned towards using more images in their ads this month. SAYSKY exclusively used images (102), and Sport Check employed 73 images compared to just 9 videos.

Emails sent on average

14.7

Ads published on average

36

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 14.73 54.91%
Kuiu
42

✅ Good

47.26%

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
30

✅ Good

67.83%

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
10

❌ Poor

54.5%

⚠️ Fair

Berghaus
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Malbon Golf
11

❌ Poor

45.27%

❌ Poor

Musto
11

❌ Poor

65.82%

✅ Good

TREW
13

❌ Poor

54.15%

⚠️ Fair

ciele
5

❌ Poor

48.6%

❌ Poor

FootJoy
9

❌ Poor

60.22%

⚠️ Fair

Mountain Hardwear
13

❌ Poor

57.46%

⚠️ Fair

Janji - UK
11

❌ Poor

50.09%

⚠️ Fair

Sport Chek
14

⚠️ Fair

48.21%

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
18

✅ Good

66.61%

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
22

✅ Good

48.32%

❌ Poor

SAYSKY
12

❌ Poor

52.08%

⚠️ 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 -2.67 5,246.43 kb
Kuiu
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

15,830.2 kb

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
✅ -2.13

❌ Poor

530.18 kb

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
✅ -3.42

✅ Good

7,459.91 kb

❌ Poor

Berghaus
- -
Malbon Golf
✅ -1.01

❌ Poor

2,317.47 kb

✅ Good

Musto
✅ -2.01

❌ Poor

1,035.35 kb

✅ Good

TREW
✅ -0.82

❌ Poor

2,393.28 kb

✅ Good

ciele
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

4,238.34 kb

✅ Good

FootJoy
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

1,444.65 kb

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

3,503.05 kb

✅ Good

Janji - UK
✅ -2.61

⚠️ Fair

6,555.53 kb

❌ Poor

Sport Chek
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

2,736.78 kb

✅ Good

Columbia Sportswear
✅ -10.37

✅ Good

340.66 kb

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
✅ -1.07

❌ Poor

4,447.21 kb

✅ Good

SAYSKY
✅ -1.47

❌ Poor

3,497.08 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 36.07 14.0
Kuiu
52

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
60

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Berghaus
18

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
42

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Musto
24

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

TREW
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

ciele
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

FootJoy
13

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
10

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Janji - UK
22

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Sport Chek
84

❌ Poor

15

⚠️ Fair

Columbia Sportswear
46

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
47

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

SAYSKY
102

❌ Poor

5

✅ 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 423 112 20.7%
Kuiu
31

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

40.38%
Short Par 4
25

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

58.33%
Bad Birdie
2

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

86.67%
Berghaus
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

27.78%
Malbon Golf
36

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

14.29%
Musto
22

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

8.33%
TREW
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
ciele
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
FootJoy
8

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

15.38%
Mountain Hardwear
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Janji - UK
21

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

4.55%
Sport Chek
73

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

10.71%
Columbia Sportswear
38

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

15.22%
Ten Thousand
36

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

23.4%
SAYSKY
102

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

Ads detected over time

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