Underwear - October - 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

November

2023

. 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 Summary: In the underwear industry, Shapermint leads in email marketing with a high number of emails sent and a good email scoring. Parade and Pepper also perform well, with a substantial volume of emails and good email scoring. MeUndies and Heist need to enhance their email marketing to compete with the leaders. However, brands like JustWears, Cuup, Icone Lingerie, Savage X, Shinesty, and brands from Culprit Underwear to Negative Underwear lag in email marketing and should focus on improving both the quantity and quality of their emails.

Email Deliverability Summary: Heist stands out with the best email deliverability due to a low average spam score. PSD Underwear and Pepper also show good email deliverability. However, SAXX Underwear, MeUndies, and brands from Parade to Shinesty need to improve their spam scores to ensure emails reach their audience effectively. Shapermint maintains a good spam score but should work on email size. Brands from Culprit Underwear to Icone Lingerie perform poorly in email deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Shapermint takes the lead in advertising performance, with a high number of new ads detected and a diverse range of unique copies. MeUndies and JustWears also perform well in this category. Brands like Parade, Lounge Underwear, SAXX Underwear, and brands from Culprit Underwear to Heist need to enhance their advertising strategies. Icone Lingerie and Shinesty lag behind in this aspect.

Emails sent on average

16.5

Ads published on average

44

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 16.53 60.63%
Heist
13

❌ Poor

62.85%

⚠️ Fair

SAXX Underwear
25

✅ Good

43.84%

❌ Poor

Culprit Underwear
20

✅ Good

62.35%

⚠️ Fair

PSD Underwear
21

✅ Good

58.1%

⚠️ Fair

JustWears
7

❌ Poor

52.0%

❌ Poor

Lounge Underwear
17

⚠️ Fair

58.82%

⚠️ Fair

Parade
27

✅ Good

64.85%

⚠️ Fair

Icone Lingerie
5

❌ Poor

59.8%

⚠️ Fair

Savage X
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

MeUndies
16

⚠️ Fair

48.94%

❌ Poor

Pepper
25

✅ Good

78.36%

✅ Good

Cuup
5

❌ Poor

69.8%

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
13

❌ Poor

62.38%

⚠️ Fair

Shinesty
7

❌ Poor

46.14%

❌ Poor

Shapermint
47

✅ Good

64.21%

⚠️ 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 -3.31 3,300.46 kb
Heist
✅ -2.65

❌ Poor

4,815.07 kb

❌ Poor

SAXX Underwear
✅ -0.52

❌ Poor

5,997.83 kb

❌ Poor

Culprit Underwear
✅ -1.69

❌ Poor

2,203.46 kb

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
- 2,330.82 kb

✅ Good

JustWears
✅ -2.21

❌ Poor

2,365.15 kb

✅ Good

Lounge Underwear
✅ -3.92

✅ Good

4,318.93 kb

❌ Poor

Parade
✅ -3.09

⚠️ Fair

3,878.75 kb

❌ Poor

Icone Lingerie
✅ -3.84

✅ Good

1,714.87 kb

✅ Good

Savage X
- -
MeUndies
✅ -2.07

❌ Poor

3,720.33 kb

❌ Poor

Pepper
✅ -2.64

❌ Poor

678.68 kb

✅ Good

Cuup
✅ -2.3

❌ Poor

49.65 kb

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
✅ -2.0

❌ Poor

3,842.18 kb

❌ Poor

Shinesty
✅ -2.33

❌ Poor

3,837.51 kb

❌ Poor

Shapermint
✅ -6.99

✅ Good

3,321.84 kb

⚠️ Fair

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 44.47 19.87
Heist
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

SAXX Underwear
30

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Culprit Underwear
17

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
57

❌ Poor

14

✅ Good

JustWears
69

❌ Poor

18

⚠️ Fair

Lounge Underwear
30

✅ Good

19

⚠️ Fair

Parade
23

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Icone Lingerie
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Savage X
60

❌ Poor

20

⚠️ Fair

MeUndies
89

❌ Poor

6

✅ Good

Pepper
33

✅ Good

18

⚠️ Fair

Cuup
33

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
60

❌ Poor

23

❌ Poor

Shinesty
30

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

Shapermint
120

❌ Poor

14

✅ 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 358 296 44.38%
Heist
5

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

16.67%
SAXX Underwear
20

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

33.33%
Culprit Underwear
4

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

76.47%
PSD Underwear
34

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

33.33%
JustWears
31

✅ Good

33

✅ Good

47.83%
Lounge Underwear
15

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

46.67%
Parade
22

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

4.35%
Icone Lingerie
10

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Savage X
52

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

13.33%
MeUndies
59

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

32.58%
Pepper
2

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

93.94%
Cuup
33

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Negative Underwear
40

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

33.33%
Shinesty
8

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

73.33%
Shapermint
23

✅ Good

95

✅ Good

79.17%

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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