Toys - 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.

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

Toys

industry, for the month of

May

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

April's top email sender was Build-A-Bear Workshop with 33 emails, followed by American Girl with 19 emails. Funko took the lead in advertising with 44 new ads created, followed by Lovevery and Build-A-Bear Workshop, both with 30 new ads.

Funko and Build-A-Bear Workshop leaned more toward images in their ad strategies, with Funko using 42 images vs. 2 videos, and Build-A-Bear Workshop using 26 images. On the other hand, Lovevery focused on videos with 28 videos vs. 2 images.

Emails sent on average

9.6

Ads published on average

14

Average Spam Score

0.3

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 9.6 50.33%
Jiggy Puzzles
9

⚠️ Fair

66.67%

✅ Good

American Girl
19

✅ Good

38.26%

❌ Poor

Nugget
5

❌ Poor

41.2%

❌ Poor

WOWCube
1

❌ Poor

88.0%

✅ Good

Osmo
3

❌ Poor

57.67%

✅ Good

GAME
15

✅ Good

44.93%

❌ Poor

Quell
4

❌ Poor

69.5%

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
9

⚠️ Fair

47.89%

⚠️ Fair

Lovevery
10

⚠️ Fair

35.7%

❌ Poor

Funko
16

✅ Good

58.63%

✅ Good

The Works
1

❌ Poor

42.0%

❌ Poor

BigStuffed
6

❌ Poor

27.5%

❌ Poor

MEL Science
8

❌ Poor

56.13%

✅ Good

Superplastic
5

❌ Poor

43.0%

❌ Poor

Build-A-Bear Workshop
33

✅ Good

57.73%

✅ 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 -0.34 2,326.62 kb
Jiggy Puzzles
✅ -2.19

✅ Good

1,831.68 kb

✅ Good

American Girl
⚠️ 7.74

❌ Poor

1,525.89 kb

✅ Good

Nugget
🟧 0.4

❌ Poor

1,959.21 kb

✅ Good

WOWCube
✅ -5.9

✅ Good

752.57 kb

✅ Good

Osmo
✅ -1.67

✅ Good

980.19 kb

✅ Good

GAME
✅ -3.24

✅ Good

5,396.05 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -1.35

✅ Good

698.91 kb

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
✅ -4.6

✅ Good

1,859.84 kb

✅ Good

Lovevery
🟧 1.98

❌ Poor

1,836.68 kb

✅ Good

Funko
✅ -1.98

✅ Good

1,047.82 kb

✅ Good

The Works
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

276.8 kb

✅ Good

BigStuffed
- 10,007.58 kb

❌ Poor

MEL Science
✅ -4.48

✅ Good

5,257.77 kb

❌ Poor

Superplastic
🟧 1.18

❌ Poor

1,437.91 kb

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
✅ -1.75

✅ Good

935.97 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 14.27 10.33
Jiggy Puzzles
9

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

American Girl
16

❌ Poor

10

⚠️ Fair

Nugget
19

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

WOWCube
0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

-
GAME
18

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Quell
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
4

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Lovevery
30

❌ Poor

30

❌ Poor

Funko
44

❌ Poor

17

❌ Poor

The Works
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

BigStuffed
13

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

MEL Science
0

✅ Good

-
Superplastic
24

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
30

❌ Poor

21

❌ Poor

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 142 58 27.1%
Jiggy Puzzles
5

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
American Girl
9

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

43.75%
Nugget
13

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

26.32%
WOWCube
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
GAME
11

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

22.22%
Quell
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Lime Tree Kids
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
Lovevery
2

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

93.33%
Funko
42

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

4.55%
The Works
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
BigStuffed
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

23.08%
MEL Science
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Superplastic
19

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

16.67%
Build-A-Bear Workshop
26

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%

Ads detected over time

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