Toys - March - 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

March

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In March, Build-A-Bear Workshop sent the highest number of emails with 34 emails, followed by American Girl with 23 emails.

MEL Science created the highest number of new ads with 60 new ads during this period, followed by Lovevery with 50 new ads. Lovevery also stands out with 46 ad copies as the top brand in terms of the number of unique ad copies used in its new ads.

In terms of their preference for images vs. videos in their new ads, Lovevery is more oriented towards using images this month with a percentage of 86%. MEL Science, on the other hand, has an almost equal percentage for images and videos, with a slight preference for images at 54%. BigSTuffed is also more oriented towards using images in their ads, with a percentage of 71% for images.

Emails sent on average

9.7

Ads published on average

18

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 9.67 55.65%
Jiggy Puzzles
8

❌ Poor

72.5%

✅ Good

American Girl
23

✅ Good

62.65%

✅ Good

Nugget
10

⚠️ Fair

51.9%

⚠️ Fair

WOWCube
1

❌ Poor

78.0%

✅ Good

Osmo
8

❌ Poor

53.38%

⚠️ Fair

GAME
10

⚠️ Fair

49.2%

❌ Poor

Quell
2

❌ Poor

76.0%

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
9

⚠️ Fair

54.56%

⚠️ Fair

Lovevery
11

✅ Good

29.55%

❌ Poor

Funko
15

✅ Good

57.67%

⚠️ Fair

The Works
2

❌ Poor

37.0%

❌ Poor

BigStuffed
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

MEL Science
7

❌ Poor

41.86%

❌ Poor

Superplastic
5

❌ Poor

66.0%

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
34

✅ Good

58.88%

⚠️ 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 -1.84 2,094.58 kb
Jiggy Puzzles
✅ -3.06

✅ Good

1,528.68 kb

✅ Good

American Girl
✅ -2.7

✅ Good

1,116.66 kb

✅ Good

Nugget
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

1,870.1 kb

✅ Good

WOWCube
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

595.23 kb

✅ Good

Osmo
✅ -1.88

⚠️ Fair

1,941.97 kb

⚠️ Fair

GAME
✅ -1.88

⚠️ Fair

4,622.78 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -3.8

✅ Good

1,500.85 kb

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

1,568.67 kb

✅ Good

Lovevery
🟧 2.97

❌ Poor

6,603.59 kb

❌ Poor

Funko
✅ -1.69

⚠️ Fair

799.66 kb

✅ Good

The Works
✅ -1.8

⚠️ Fair

1,417.57 kb

✅ Good

BigStuffed
- -
MEL Science
✅ -2.24

✅ Good

4,602.34 kb

❌ Poor

Superplastic
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

614.95 kb

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
✅ -2.66

✅ Good

1,319.46 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 17.93 11.4
Jiggy Puzzles
10

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

American Girl
17

⚠️ Fair

13

❌ Poor

Nugget
21

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

WOWCube
0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

-
GAME
0

✅ Good

-
Quell
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
13

✅ Good

11

⚠️ Fair

Lovevery
50

❌ Poor

42

❌ Poor

Funko
24

❌ Poor

19

❌ Poor

The Works
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

BigStuffed
35

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

MEL Science
60

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

Superplastic
13

✅ Good

11

⚠️ Fair

Build-A-Bear Workshop
18

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ 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 144 110 40.89%
Jiggy Puzzles
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

10.0%
American Girl
9

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

47.06%
Nugget
16

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

9.52%
WOWCube
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
GAME
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Quell
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
Lime Tree Kids
7

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

46.15%
Lovevery
7

✅ Good

42

✅ Good

84.0%
Funko
19

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

20.83%
The Works
1

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
BigStuffed
25

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

28.57%
MEL Science
28

✅ Good

24

✅ Good

40.0%
Superplastic
10

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

15.38%
Build-A-Bear Workshop
12

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

33.33%

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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