Toys - January - 2024


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.

Toys

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

March

2024

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Performance: American Girl emerges as the leader in email marketing within the toys industry, sending out 24 emails with a good balance in email scoring despite a high promotion rate. Funko closely follows with 22 emails, demonstrating strong email scoring and a moderate promotional content ratio. Superplastic also exhibits commendable email marketing performance, with 12 emails and a high email scoring rate, indicating effective engagement with the target audience.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Jiggy Puzzles showcases efficient email deliverability with a positive spam score, although it needs improvement in managing email size to enhance its performance in this aspect. American Girl excels in email deliverability, boasting a significant positive spam score and efficient email size management, indicating a strong presence in the toys industry. Nugget demonstrates solid email deliverability with a positive spam score, reflecting effective email size management and efficient engagement strategies.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: MEL Science stands out in advertising impact with 58 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content, reflecting its strong market presence in the toys industry. Lovevery closely follows with 58 impactful ads, showcasing a variety of unique copies and a balanced proportion of video content. Build-A-Bear Workshop demonstrates solid advertising strategies with 55 impactful ads, focusing on volume and a diverse range of ad content.

Emails sent on average

6.7

Ads published on average

23

Average Spam Score

2.3

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 6.67 58.99%
Jiggy Puzzles
4

❌ Poor

66.75%

✅ Good

American Girl
24

✅ Good

55.5%

⚠️ Fair

Nugget
8

✅ Good

63.13%

⚠️ Fair

WOWCube
6 65.67%

✅ Good

Osmo
2

❌ Poor

43.5%

❌ Poor

GAME
11

✅ Good

51.82%

❌ Poor

Quell
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Lovevery
5

❌ Poor

51.4%

❌ Poor

Funko
22

✅ Good

63.36%

⚠️ Fair

The Works
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

BigStuffed
4

❌ Poor

36.5%

❌ Poor

MEL Science
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Superplastic
12

✅ Good

67.58%

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
1

❌ Poor

63.0%

⚠️ 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 -2.28 2,018.5 kb
Jiggy Puzzles
✅ -1.03

❌ Poor

2,737.67 kb

❌ Poor

American Girl
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

2,927.89 kb

❌ Poor

Nugget
✅ -1.48

❌ Poor

1,417.14 kb

✅ Good

WOWCube
✅ -7.43

✅ Good

1,526.63 kb

✅ Good

Osmo
✅ -2.8

✅ Good

2,485.54 kb

❌ Poor

GAME
✅ -3.39

✅ Good

2,865.95 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

4,261.73 kb

❌ Poor

Lime Tree Kids
- -
Lovevery
🟧 1.08

❌ Poor

1,064.74 kb

✅ Good

Funko
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,493.3 kb

✅ Good

The Works
- -
BigStuffed
⚠️ 7.8

❌ Poor

1,377.14 kb

✅ Good

MEL Science
- -
Superplastic
✅ -3.14

✅ Good

699.08 kb

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
✅ -5.0

✅ Good

7,301.24 kb

❌ Poor

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 22.73 12.4
Jiggy Puzzles
0

✅ Good

-
American Girl
20

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Nugget
11

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

WOWCube
0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

-
GAME
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Quell
17

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Lovevery
58

❌ Poor

35

❌ Poor

Funko
45

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

The Works
18

✅ Good

14

❌ Poor

BigStuffed
18

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

MEL Science
58

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Superplastic
29

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
55

❌ Poor

23

❌ 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 199 142 41.64%
Jiggy Puzzles
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
American Girl
7

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

65.0%
Nugget
11

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
WOWCube
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
GAME
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Quell
4

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

76.47%
Lime Tree Kids
3

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

40.0%
Lovevery
7

✅ Good

51

✅ Good

87.93%
Funko
40

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

11.11%
The Works
15

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

16.67%
BigStuffed
17

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

5.56%
MEL Science
27

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

53.45%
Superplastic
8

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

72.41%
Build-A-Bear Workshop
54

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

1.82%

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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