Underwear - September - 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

September

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: Shapermint leads the underwear industry with a significant number of emails sent and a good email performance. Parade and Pepper also demonstrate strong email strategies. However, brands like JustWears and Cuup need improvement, with poor email performance and higher promotion percentages.

Email Deliverability Summary: Heist excels in email deliverability with a very good spam score and optimized email size. SAXX Underwear and PSD Underwear also perform well in this aspect. However, Lounge Underwear and MeUndies need to enhance their email optimization to improve deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: MeUndies takes the lead in advertising within the underwear industry with the highest number of new ads and a good unique copy performance. Shapermint and Savage X also perform well in advertising. Brands like Heist and Cuup need to enhance their advertising presence.

In conclusion, Shapermint dominates in email marketing, Heist excels in email deliverability, and MeUndies leads in advertising within the underwear industry. Brands like JustWears and Cuup should focus on improving their overall marketing strategies.

Emails sent on average

14.4

Ads published on average

50

Average Spam Score

3.0

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 14.4 58.15%
Heist
1

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

SAXX Underwear
19

✅ Good

39.95%

❌ Poor

Culprit Underwear
10

❌ Poor

54.7%

⚠️ Fair

PSD Underwear
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

JustWears
7

❌ Poor

57.14%

⚠️ Fair

Lounge Underwear
17

✅ Good

55.53%

⚠️ Fair

Parade
30

✅ Good

52.97%

⚠️ Fair

Icone Lingerie
4

❌ Poor

58.25%

⚠️ Fair

Savage X
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

MeUndies
24

✅ Good

57.17%

⚠️ Fair

Pepper
27

✅ Good

79.3%

✅ Good

Cuup
3

❌ Poor

52.0%

❌ Poor

Negative Underwear
14

⚠️ Fair

54.57%

⚠️ Fair

Shinesty
7

❌ Poor

42.14%

❌ Poor

Shapermint
53

✅ Good

62.02%

⚠️ 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 -3.04 3,564.15 kb
Heist
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

3,802.38 kb

⚠️ Fair

SAXX Underwear
✅ -0.25

❌ Poor

6,577.57 kb

❌ Poor

Culprit Underwear
🟧 0.2

❌ Poor

2,507.72 kb

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
- -
JustWears
✅ -3.56

✅ Good

5,702.33 kb

❌ Poor

Lounge Underwear
✅ -2.45

❌ Poor

3,709.26 kb

⚠️ Fair

Parade
✅ -0.72

❌ Poor

4,540.7 kb

❌ Poor

Icone Lingerie
✅ -2.3

❌ Poor

2,251.64 kb

✅ Good

Savage X
- -
MeUndies
✅ -2.51

❌ Poor

2,777.34 kb

✅ Good

Pepper
✅ -1.65

❌ Poor

578.72 kb

✅ Good

Cuup
✅ -4.3

✅ Good

1,847.78 kb

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
✅ -0.49

❌ Poor

3,294.6 kb

⚠️ Fair

Shinesty
✅ -0.24

❌ Poor

5,211.01 kb

❌ Poor

Shapermint
✅ -7.99

✅ Good

3,724.06 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 49.6 19.93
Heist
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

SAXX Underwear
61

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Culprit Underwear
8

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

PSD Underwear
43

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

JustWears
39

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Lounge Underwear
81

❌ Poor

34

❌ Poor

Parade
29

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Icone Lingerie
10

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Savage X
90

❌ Poor

19

⚠️ Fair

MeUndies
104

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Pepper
63

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Cuup
20

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Negative Underwear
44

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

Shinesty
58

❌ Poor

20

⚠️ Fair

Shapermint
90

❌ Poor

5

✅ 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 344 389 52.28%
Heist
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

25.0%
SAXX Underwear
42

✅ Good

19

✅ Good

31.15%
Culprit Underwear
0

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

100.0%
PSD Underwear
2

✅ Good

37

✅ Good

86.05%
JustWears
27

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

30.77%
Lounge Underwear
30

✅ Good

51

✅ Good

62.96%
Parade
18

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

37.93%
Icone Lingerie
9

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

10.0%
Savage X
50

✅ Good

38

✅ Good

42.22%
MeUndies
64

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

38.46%
Pepper
18

✅ Good

45

✅ Good

71.43%
Cuup
20

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Negative Underwear
26

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

40.91%
Shinesty
24

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

53.45%
Shapermint
12

✅ Good

77

✅ Good

85.56%

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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