Sportswear - May - 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

June

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 the month of May, Short Par 4 sent the highest number of emails with a total of 39 emails, followed by Kuiu with 35 emails. Ten Thousand claimed the lead in ads, creating 100 new ads, closely followed by Sport Check with 95 new ads. Sport Check utilized the highest number of unique ad copies (58) during May. Both Ten Thousand and Sport Check emphasized more images over videos in their ad media, with Ten Thousand using 79 images and 21 videos, and Sport Check featuring 67 images and 24 videos.

Emails sent on average

15.9

Ads published on average

46

Average Spam Score

2.5

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 15.93 55.49%
Kuiu
35

✅ Good

46.94%

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
39

✅ Good

70.33%

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
12

❌ Poor

54.33%

⚠️ Fair

Berghaus
7

❌ Poor

62.14%

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
10

❌ Poor

54.4%

⚠️ Fair

Musto
14

❌ Poor

59.64%

⚠️ Fair

TREW
10

❌ Poor

49.0%

❌ Poor

ciele
9

❌ Poor

46.67%

❌ Poor

FootJoy
12

❌ Poor

55.33%

⚠️ Fair

Mountain Hardwear
18

✅ Good

55.83%

⚠️ Fair

Janji - UK
4

❌ Poor

54.25%

⚠️ Fair

Sport Chek
16

⚠️ Fair

34.88%

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
20

✅ Good

65.9%

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
22

✅ Good

50.18%

⚠️ Fair

SAYSKY
11

❌ Poor

57.55%

⚠️ 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 -2.54 5,366.25 kb
Kuiu
✅ -1.27

❌ Poor

23,910.74 kb

❌ Poor

Short Par 4
✅ -2.16

❌ Poor

654.18 kb

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
✅ -2.18

❌ Poor

4,765.93 kb

✅ Good

Berghaus
- 566.1 kb

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
✅ -2.26

❌ Poor

2,338.39 kb

✅ Good

Musto
✅ -2.96

✅ Good

1,681.36 kb

✅ Good

TREW
✅ -1.59

❌ Poor

4,534.91 kb

✅ Good

ciele
✅ -0.83

❌ Poor

1,439.4 kb

✅ Good

FootJoy
✅ -0.26

❌ Poor

1,422.83 kb

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
✅ -1.13

❌ Poor

2,985.16 kb

✅ Good

Janji - UK
✅ -2.5

⚠️ Fair

3,009.3 kb

✅ Good

Sport Chek
✅ -1.23

❌ Poor

3,938.11 kb

✅ Good

Columbia Sportswear
✅ -10.06

✅ Good

51.86 kb

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
✅ -2.7

⚠️ Fair

3,740.13 kb

✅ Good

SAYSKY
✅ -1.72

❌ Poor

2,235.41 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 45.8 19.67
Kuiu
64

❌ Poor

15

✅ Good

Short Par 4
15

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

Bad Birdie
46

⚠️ Fair

19

⚠️ Fair

Berghaus
29

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Malbon Golf
88

❌ Poor

9

✅ Good

Musto
19

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

TREW
32

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

ciele
13

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

FootJoy
43

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

Mountain Hardwear
20

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Janji - UK
49

⚠️ Fair

7

✅ Good

Sport Chek
95

❌ Poor

39

❌ Poor

Columbia Sportswear
31

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Ten Thousand
100

❌ Poor

18

⚠️ Fair

SAYSKY
43

⚠️ Fair

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 490 179 26.06%
Kuiu
50

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

21.88%
Short Par 4
15

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Bad Birdie
10

✅ Good

36

✅ Good

78.26%
Berghaus
17

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

37.93%
Malbon Golf
81

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

7.95%
Musto
12

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

36.84%
TREW
23

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

28.13%
ciele
9

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
FootJoy
24

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

44.19%
Mountain Hardwear
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

30.0%
Janji - UK
30

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

38.78%
Sport Chek
67

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

25.26%
Columbia Sportswear
16

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

19.35%
Ten Thousand
79

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

21.0%
SAYSKY
43

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

Ads detected over time

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