Toys - July - 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.

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

August

2023

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

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Highlights & Summary

In July, American Girl and Funko retained their email leadership, sending 21 and 19 emails respectively.

In terms of advertising, MEL Science maintained its top position with 88 new ads created. Build-A-Bear Workshop followed in second place with 70 new ads and the highest number of ad copies (60).

Regarding ad strategy, MEL Science prioritized videos, while Build-A-Bear Workshop exclusively used images this month. MEL Science featured 60 videos compared to 28 images, while Build-A-Bear Workshop utilized only 55 images.

Emails sent on average

7.9

Ads published on average

26

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 7.87 53.58%
Jiggy Puzzles
7

❌ Poor

63.29%

✅ Good

American Girl
21

✅ Good

54.52%

⚠️ Fair

Nugget
7

❌ Poor

55.29%

⚠️ Fair

WOWCube
3

❌ Poor

77.0%

✅ Good

Osmo
8

⚠️ Fair

46.25%

❌ Poor

GAME
10

✅ Good

56.6%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
3

❌ Poor

50.0%

⚠️ Fair

Lime Tree Kids
9

✅ Good

51.22%

⚠️ Fair

Lovevery
10

✅ Good

35.3%

❌ Poor

Funko
19

✅ Good

58.11%

⚠️ Fair

The Works
2

❌ Poor

66.5%

✅ Good

BigStuffed
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

MEL Science
7

❌ Poor

32.71%

❌ Poor

Superplastic
9

✅ Good

61.44%

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
3

❌ Poor

66.0%

✅ 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 -2.52 2,946.43 kb
Jiggy Puzzles
✅ -2.57

⚠️ Fair

5,722.14 kb

❌ Poor

American Girl
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

3,034.0 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nugget
✅ -1.29

❌ Poor

1,854.87 kb

✅ Good

WOWCube
✅ -3.97

✅ Good

802.18 kb

✅ Good

Osmo
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

3,292.13 kb

❌ Poor

GAME
✅ -3.0

✅ Good

1,760.06 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

15,512.62 kb

❌ Poor

Lime Tree Kids
✅ -5.4

✅ Good

1,949.71 kb

✅ Good

Lovevery
🟧 0.87

❌ Poor

2,303.27 kb

✅ Good

Funko
✅ -2.73

⚠️ Fair

1,794.19 kb

✅ Good

The Works
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

1,199.7 kb

✅ Good

BigStuffed
- -
MEL Science
✅ -0.07

❌ Poor

6,414.69 kb

❌ Poor

Superplastic
✅ -2.71

⚠️ Fair

1,623.12 kb

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

488.04 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 25.6 16.67
Jiggy Puzzles
0

✅ Good

-
American Girl
10

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Nugget
15

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

WOWCube
0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

-
GAME
23

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Quell
25

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lovevery
52

❌ Poor

50

❌ Poor

Funko
33

❌ Poor

26

❌ Poor

The Works
24

⚠️ Fair

12

✅ Good

BigStuffed
18

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

MEL Science
88

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Superplastic
24

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
70

❌ Poor

51

❌ 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 191 178 46.35%
Jiggy Puzzles
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
American Girl
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

30.0%
Nugget
8

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

46.67%
WOWCube
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
GAME
14

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

39.13%
Quell
4

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

84.0%
Lime Tree Kids
0

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

100.0%
Lovevery
1

✅ Good

51

✅ Good

98.08%
Funko
30

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

9.09%
The Works
17

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

29.17%
BigStuffed
15

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

16.67%
MEL Science
28

✅ Good

60

✅ Good

68.18%
Superplastic
12

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

50.0%
Build-A-Bear Workshop
55

✅ 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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