Underwear - December - 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.

Underwear

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Underwear

industry, for the month of

January

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 Overview: Shapermint stands out with a robust email marketing strategy, sending 52 emails and achieving a remarkable performance score of 63.44%. Parade follows closely, demonstrating a competitive approach with 30 emails and a solid performance score of 60.13%. Pepper, SAXX Underwear, and MeUndies maintain good performance but with varying email volumes. Savage X, Lounge Underwear, Culprit Underwear, and Negative Underwear exhibit potential but need improvements in both volume and performance. Brands like Cuup, Heist, and Shinesty struggle with lower performance and need strategic adjustments for more effective email marketing.

Email Deliverability Insights: Heist leads in email deliverability with the best spam score improvement, albeit with larger email sizes. SAXX Underwear showcases good deliverability with a moderate spam score and reasonable email sizes. Culprit Underwear, PSD Underwear, and Icone Lingerie also exhibit good deliverability. Brands like Lounge Underwear, Parade, and Negative Underwear face challenges with larger email sizes despite moderate spam scores. Shinesty stands out with a high spam score, indicating potential deliverability issues.

Ads Performance: Lounge Underwear emerges as the advertising leader, demonstrating 210 impactful ads with a diverse range of 82 unique copies. Shapermint, Savage X, and Shinesty maintain strong advertising strategies, combining substantial ad volumes with engaging content. Parade, Negative Underwear, and Pepper show competitive advertising impact. Struggling with both volume and content diversity, JustWears, Cuup, and PSD Underwear need strategic adjustments for competitive advertising.

Emails sent on average

17.5

Ads published on average

70

Average Spam Score

3.3

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 17.47 58.72%
Heist
11

❌ Poor

60.27%

⚠️ Fair

SAXX Underwear
22

✅ Good

45.73%

❌ Poor

Culprit Underwear
15

❌ Poor

69.47%

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
9

❌ Poor

61.44%

⚠️ Fair

JustWears
6

❌ Poor

52.17%

❌ Poor

Lounge Underwear
17

⚠️ Fair

54.59%

⚠️ Fair

Parade
30

✅ Good

60.13%

⚠️ Fair

Icone Lingerie
5

❌ Poor

57.4%

⚠️ Fair

Savage X
18

⚠️ Fair

45.06%

❌ Poor

MeUndies
19

⚠️ Fair

47.63%

❌ Poor

Pepper
24

✅ Good

79.79%

✅ Good

Cuup
12

❌ Poor

64.08%

⚠️ Fair

Negative Underwear
13

❌ Poor

62.0%

⚠️ Fair

Shinesty
9

❌ Poor

31.44%

❌ Poor

Shapermint
52

✅ Good

63.44%

⚠️ 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 -3.27 3,684.4 kb
Heist
✅ -2.72

❌ Poor

3,667.58 kb

⚠️ Fair

SAXX Underwear
✅ -0.78

❌ Poor

13,015.27 kb

❌ Poor

Culprit Underwear
✅ -1.79

❌ Poor

1,584.15 kb

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
- 1,856.56 kb

✅ Good

JustWears
✅ -3.33

⚠️ Fair

4,002.42 kb

⚠️ Fair

Lounge Underwear
✅ -3.04

⚠️ Fair

4,995.01 kb

❌ Poor

Parade
✅ -2.3

❌ Poor

4,452.21 kb

❌ Poor

Icone Lingerie
✅ -2.86

❌ Poor

1,731.38 kb

✅ Good

Savage X
- 1,616.37 kb

✅ Good

MeUndies
✅ -1.94

❌ Poor

3,270.63 kb

✅ Good

Pepper
✅ -3.45

⚠️ Fair

830.79 kb

✅ Good

Cuup
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

51.53 kb

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
✅ -1.42

❌ Poor

2,427.04 kb

✅ Good

Shinesty
🟧 3.81

❌ Poor

3,869.87 kb

⚠️ Fair

Shapermint
✅ -8.08

✅ Good

3,246.81 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 70.2 26.33
Heist
5

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

SAXX Underwear
48

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Culprit Underwear
47

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
16

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

JustWears
55

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Lounge Underwear
210

❌ Poor

61

❌ Poor

Parade
76

⚠️ Fair

19

✅ Good

Icone Lingerie
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Savage X
149

❌ Poor

28

⚠️ Fair

MeUndies
60

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

Pepper
64

⚠️ Fair

11

✅ Good

Cuup
7

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
67

⚠️ Fair

4

✅ Good

Shinesty
93

❌ Poor

37

❌ Poor

Shapermint
149

❌ Poor

31

❌ 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 428 625 59.35%
Heist
2

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

60.0%
SAXX Underwear
33

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

31.25%
Culprit Underwear
4

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

91.49%
PSD Underwear
6

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

62.5%
JustWears
9

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

83.64%
Lounge Underwear
85

✅ Good

125

✅ Good

59.52%
Parade
43

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

43.42%
Icone Lingerie
6

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

14.29%
Savage X
102

✅ Good

47

✅ Good

31.54%
MeUndies
17

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

71.67%
Pepper
16

✅ Good

48

✅ Good

75.0%
Cuup
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Negative Underwear
29

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

56.72%
Shinesty
44

✅ Good

49

✅ Good

52.69%
Shapermint
25

✅ Good

124

✅ Good

83.22%

Ads detected over time

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