Toys - June - 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

July

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 the month of June, American Girl maintained its position as the frontrunner in email communications, sending a total of 26 emails. Following behind is Funko, with 15 emails.

Shifting our focus to advertising efforts, MEL Science emerged as the leader, creating 103 new ads. Lovevery secured the second position by creating 95 new ads, incorporating the highest number of ad copies (81) compared to all the other brands of the benchmark.

Turning our attention to the ad media utilized, both MEL Science and Lovevery showcased a preference for videos over images. MEL Science employed 62 videos alongside 41 images, while Lovevery utilized 76 videos and 17 images.

Emails sent on average

8.5

Ads published on average

26

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 8.53 54.5%
Jiggy Puzzles
9

⚠️ Fair

82.44%

✅ Good

American Girl
26

✅ Good

53.31%

⚠️ Fair

Nugget
6

❌ Poor

58.17%

⚠️ Fair

WOWCube
1

❌ Poor

56.0%

⚠️ Fair

Osmo
7

❌ Poor

43.0%

❌ Poor

GAME
11

✅ Good

58.36%

⚠️ Fair

Quell
4

❌ Poor

35.75%

❌ Poor

Lime Tree Kids
8

⚠️ Fair

45.13%

❌ Poor

Lovevery
12

✅ Good

43.25%

❌ Poor

Funko
15

✅ Good

59.93%

⚠️ Fair

The Works
4

❌ Poor

57.5%

⚠️ Fair

BigStuffed
3

❌ Poor

42.0%

❌ Poor

MEL Science
8

⚠️ Fair

52.5%

⚠️ Fair

Superplastic
9

⚠️ Fair

53.67%

⚠️ Fair

Build-A-Bear Workshop
5

❌ Poor

63.8%

✅ 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 -2.13 2,160.19 kb
Jiggy Puzzles
✅ -3.43

✅ Good

680.83 kb

✅ Good

American Girl
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

2,098.73 kb

⚠️ Fair

Nugget
✅ -1.93

⚠️ Fair

1,729.67 kb

✅ Good

WOWCube
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

1,047.68 kb

✅ Good

Osmo
✅ -0.71

❌ Poor

2,553.97 kb

❌ Poor

GAME
✅ -2.27

⚠️ Fair

1,736.88 kb

✅ Good

Quell
✅ -1.05

❌ Poor

1,248.8 kb

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

2,166.7 kb

⚠️ Fair

Lovevery
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

1,844.56 kb

✅ Good

Funko
✅ -2.43

✅ Good

1,638.19 kb

✅ Good

The Works
✅ -1.8

❌ Poor

858.93 kb

✅ Good

BigStuffed
- 12,988.37 kb

❌ Poor

MEL Science
✅ -5.09

✅ Good

4,364.93 kb

❌ Poor

Superplastic
✅ -1.21

❌ Poor

1,481.51 kb

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

1,542.2 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 26.4 17.13
Jiggy Puzzles
7

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

American Girl
7

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

Nugget
17

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

WOWCube
0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

-
GAME
22

✅ Good

16

⚠️ Fair

Quell
13

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Lovevery
95

❌ Poor

70

❌ Poor

Funko
31

❌ Poor

14

✅ Good

The Works
16

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

BigStuffed
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

MEL Science
103

❌ Poor

16

⚠️ Fair

Superplastic
24

⚠️ Fair

13

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
48

❌ Poor

29

❌ 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 200 191 48.23%
Jiggy Puzzles
0

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

85.71%
American Girl
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
Nugget
11

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

35.29%
WOWCube
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
GAME
14

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

27.27%
Quell
6

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

53.85%
Lime Tree Kids
1

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

66.67%
Lovevery
17

✅ Good

76

✅ Good

80.0%
Funko
25

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

19.35%
The Works
12

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

25.0%
BigStuffed
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
MEL Science
41

✅ Good

62

✅ Good

60.19%
Superplastic
12

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

50.0%
Build-A-Bear Workshop
48

✅ 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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