Sportswear - March - 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

March

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

During March, Kuiu sent the highest number of emails with 31, closely followed by Ten Thousand with 24. However, Ten Thousand outperformed other brands in terms of advertising, launching 60 new ads, although only using 4 unique ad copies. It's worth noting that sportswear brands tend to prioritize images over videos, and Ten Thousand is the leader in this regard with 48 new images compared to only 12 new videos launched this month.

Emails sent on average

12.4

Ads published on average

13

Average Spam Score

3.0

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 12.4 54.34%
Kuiu
31

✅ Good

48.81%

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
18

✅ Good

61.39%

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
11

❌ Poor

50.27%

⚠️ Fair

Berghaus
7

❌ Poor

62.43%

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
6

❌ Poor

68.33%

✅ Good

Musto
13

⚠️ Fair

53.08%

⚠️ Fair

TREW
10

❌ Poor

43.5%

❌ Poor

ciele
8

❌ Poor

41.63%

❌ Poor

FootJoy
7

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Mountain Hardwear
1

❌ Poor

70.0%

✅ Good

Janji - UK
5

❌ Poor

52.8%

⚠️ Fair

Sport Chek
15

✅ Good

39.93%

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
20

✅ Good

70.15%

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
24

✅ Good

57.92%

⚠️ Fair

SAYSKY
10

❌ Poor

49.2%

⚠️ 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 -3.04 5,723.87 kb
Kuiu
✅ -1.34

❌ Poor

18,323.68 kb

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
✅ -3.09

⚠️ Fair

3,912.16 kb

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
✅ -2.25

❌ Poor

5,079.09 kb

✅ Good

Berghaus
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

511.53 kb

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
✅ -3.33

⚠️ Fair

2,839.92 kb

✅ Good

Musto
✅ -1.64

❌ Poor

2,628.59 kb

✅ Good

TREW
✅ -0.7

❌ Poor

4,556.23 kb

✅ Good

ciele
🟧 0.51

❌ Poor

1,803.93 kb

✅ Good

FootJoy
✅ -2.96

⚠️ Fair

1,507.24 kb

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

87.56 kb

✅ Good

Janji - UK
✅ -2.74

⚠️ Fair

3,828.7 kb

✅ Good

Sport Chek
✅ -2.15

❌ Poor

3,101.98 kb

✅ Good

Columbia Sportswear
✅ -11.1

✅ Good

67.15 kb

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
✅ -2.91

⚠️ Fair

6,392.96 kb

❌ Poor

SAYSKY
✅ -0.49

❌ Poor

2,444.59 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 13.27 5.13
Kuiu
5

✅ Good

5

⚠️ Fair

Short Par 4
14

⚠️ Fair

3

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
15

❌ Poor

11

❌ Poor

Berghaus
4

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Musto
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

TREW
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

ciele
0

✅ Good

-
FootJoy
17

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Janji - UK
7

✅ Good

5

⚠️ Fair

Sport Chek
30

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
0

✅ Good

-
Ten Thousand
60

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

SAYSKY
29

❌ Poor

4

✅ 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 133 57 28.64%
Kuiu
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Short Par 4
14

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bad Birdie
0

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

100.0%
Berghaus
3

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
Malbon Golf
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Musto
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
TREW
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

33.33%
ciele
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
FootJoy
10

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

41.18%
Mountain Hardwear
3

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

66.67%
Janji - UK
2

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Sport Chek
15

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

26.67%
Columbia Sportswear
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Ten Thousand
48

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

20.0%
SAYSKY
27

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

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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