Yoga - 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.

Yoga

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

Yoga

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: Vuori emerges as a leader in the yoga industry's email game, sending 22 impactful emails with a good performance score of 50.59%. Beyond Yoga follows closely, delivering 22 emails and showcasing a commendable performance of 64.55%. Prana demonstrates a strong email strategy with 18 messages, combining a high performance score of 62.89% and judicious promotion at 94%. Lululemon maintains a solid position, sending 17 emails, exhibiting a high performance score of 72.35% and a healthy promotion percentage of 11%. Born Living Yoga, while sending fewer emails, shows a balanced performance, but lags in promotion. Recess Activewear needs refinement in both volume and performance. Brands like Alo Yoga, Yoga Strong, and Fabletics require strategic adjustments to compete effectively.

Email Deliverability Insights: Recess Activewear and Born Living Yoga ensure consistent email deliverability with impressive spam scores, standing out among the competition. Lululemon maintains a strong position with excellent deliverability despite a high spam score. Beyond Yoga demonstrates good deliverability with a balanced spam score. Prana, Vuori, and Fabletics need to refine both deliverability and spam scores for optimal email performance. Alo Yoga, despite good deliverability, faces challenges in spam scores. Yoga Strong exhibits good deliverability with a high spam score, showcasing the need for optimization.

Ads Performance: Vuori excels in advertising, delivering 112 impactful ads with a diverse range of content. Fabletics follows closely, with 106 ads and a significant variety of copy. Lululemon maintains a strong position, showcasing 99 ads with diverse content. Beyond Yoga and Born Living Yoga exhibit commendable advertising impact with 61 and 54 ads, respectively. Prana, Yoga Strong, and Recess Activewear need enhancement in both volume and diversity. Lululemon Studio (formerly Mirror), Alo Yoga, and brands with zero ads need a strategic push to compete effectively in the yoga industry.

Emails sent on average

11.0

Ads published on average

48

Average Spam Score

3.2

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 11.0 61.05%
Recess Activewear
8

❌ Poor

66.88%

⚠️ Fair

Born Living Yoga
11

⚠️ Fair

52.64%

❌ Poor

Alo Yoga
6

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Beyond Yoga
22

✅ Good

64.55%

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
3

❌ Poor

59.0%

⚠️ Fair

Vuori
22

✅ Good

50.59%

❌ Poor

Yoga Strong
3

❌ Poor

58.33%

⚠️ Fair

Lululemon
17

✅ Good

72.35%

✅ Good

Prana
18

✅ Good

62.89%

⚠️ Fair

lululemon Studio (formerly Mirror)
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

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 -3.23 2,247.66 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -3.1

⚠️ Fair

4,489.55 kb

❌ Poor

Born Living Yoga
✅ -3.75

✅ Good

5,513.25 kb

❌ Poor

Alo Yoga
- 1,034.06 kb

✅ Good

Beyond Yoga
✅ -2.07

❌ Poor

1,725.75 kb

✅ Good

Fabletics
- 634.08 kb

✅ Good

Vuori
✅ -1.77

❌ Poor

3,777.31 kb

❌ Poor

Yoga Strong
✅ -1.57

❌ Poor

7.26 kb

✅ Good

Lululemon
✅ -6.57

✅ Good

260.62 kb

✅ Good

Prana
✅ -3.24

⚠️ Fair

947.42 kb

✅ Good

lululemon Studio (formerly Mirror)
- -

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 48.2 15.2
Recess Activewear
7

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
54

❌ Poor

25

❌ Poor

Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

-
Beyond Yoga
61

❌ Poor

7

✅ Good

Fabletics
106

❌ Poor

4

✅ Good

Vuori
112

❌ Poor

10

✅ Good

Yoga Strong
19

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Lululemon
99

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Prana
24

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

lululemon Studio (formerly Mirror)
0

✅ 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 331 151 31.33%
Recess Activewear
7

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
Born Living Yoga
33

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

38.89%
Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Beyond Yoga
46

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

24.59%
Fabletics
38

✅ Good

68

✅ Good

64.15%
Vuori
97

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

13.39%
Yoga Strong
1

✅ Good

18

✅ Good

94.74%
Lululemon
98

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

1.01%
Prana
11

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

54.17%
lululemon Studio (formerly Mirror)
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-

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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