Toys - May - 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

June

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 May, American Girl emerged as the leader with 23 emails, closely trailed by Funko and GAME, each sending 17 emails. Lovevery dominated the ads landscape, creating 138 new ads and utilizing 116 unique ad copies. MEL Science showcased a strong presence as well, with 116 new ads but featuring just 25 unique ad copies. Both Lovevery and MEL Science demonstrated a focus on videos in their ad strategies, with Lovevery utilizing 129 videos vs. 8 images and MEL Science featuring 91 videos vs. 22 images.

Emails sent on average

8.8

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 8.8 52.05%
Jiggy Puzzles
9

⚠️ Fair

72.11%

✅ Good

American Girl
23

✅ Good

60.96%

✅ Good

Nugget
6

❌ Poor

47.67%

⚠️ Fair

WOWCube
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Osmo
11

✅ Good

50.82%

⚠️ Fair

GAME
16

✅ Good

46.63%

❌ Poor

Quell
2

❌ Poor

60.0%

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
8

⚠️ Fair

44.38%

❌ Poor

Lovevery
8

⚠️ Fair

42.63%

❌ Poor

Funko
17

✅ Good

53.47%

⚠️ Fair

The Works
3

❌ Poor

33.0%

❌ Poor

BigStuffed
6

❌ Poor

38.83%

❌ Poor

MEL Science
10

✅ Good

47.8%

⚠️ Fair

Superplastic
7

❌ Poor

49.86%

⚠️ Fair

Build-A-Bear Workshop
6

❌ Poor

57.33%

✅ 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 -1.94 2,298.07 kb
Jiggy Puzzles
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

725.18 kb

✅ Good

American Girl
✅ -2.6

✅ Good

1,734.85 kb

✅ Good

Nugget
✅ -0.05

❌ Poor

1,782.59 kb

✅ Good

WOWCube
- -
Osmo
✅ -1.39

❌ Poor

1,601.85 kb

✅ Good

GAME
✅ -2.51

✅ Good

3,313.97 kb

❌ Poor

Quell
✅ -0.1

❌ Poor

771.33 kb

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
✅ -3.1

✅ Good

2,071.19 kb

⚠️ Fair

Lovevery
🟧 1.33

❌ Poor

2,094.01 kb

⚠️ Fair

Funko
✅ -3.34

✅ Good

2,175.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

The Works
🟧 0.7

❌ Poor

1,675.55 kb

✅ Good

BigStuffed
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

3,761.57 kb

❌ Poor

MEL Science
✅ -3.6

✅ Good

6,200.12 kb

❌ Poor

Superplastic
✅ -0.76

❌ Poor

1,503.42 kb

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
✅ -1.77

⚠️ Fair

601.86 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 37.0 22.67
Jiggy Puzzles
28

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

American Girl
15

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Nugget
28

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

WOWCube
0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

-
GAME
30

✅ Good

21

⚠️ Fair

Quell
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lime Tree Kids
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Lovevery
138

❌ Poor

101

❌ Poor

Funko
42

❌ Poor

23

⚠️ Fair

The Works
14

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

BigStuffed
40

⚠️ Fair

6

✅ Good

MEL Science
116

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Superplastic
41

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Build-A-Bear Workshop
57

❌ Poor

30

❌ 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 258 276 49.73%
Jiggy Puzzles
18

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

25.0%
American Girl
8

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

46.67%
Nugget
22

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

17.86%
WOWCube
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Osmo
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
GAME
29

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Quell
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%
Lime Tree Kids
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Lovevery
8

✅ Good

129

✅ Good

93.48%
Funko
38

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

4.76%
The Works
13

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

7.14%
BigStuffed
23

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

42.5%
MEL Science
22

✅ Good

91

✅ Good

78.45%
Superplastic
30

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

21.95%
Build-A-Bear Workshop
44

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

8.77%

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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