Cannabis - April - 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.

Cannabis

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

Cannabis

industry, for the month of

May

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In April, Beam, The Honey Pot Company, and Recess sent 15 emails each, taking the lead from Standard Dose.

When it comes to ads, Beam outdid other brands with 39 new ads and used a total of 21 unique ad copies, followed by The Honey Pot Company with 20 new ads.

Beam's ad strategy is focused on videos with 22 videos compared to 17 images. Meanwhile, The Honey Pot Company uses a balanced approach, with 10 images and 10 videos.

Emails sent on average

11.9

Ads published on average

8

Average Spam Score

1.8

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 11.87 59.92%
House Plant
10

❌ Poor

43.1%

❌ Poor

Recess
15

✅ Good

63.53%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
14

✅ Good

58.29%

⚠️ Fair

Proper
9

❌ Poor

62.78%

⚠️ Fair

The Honey Pot Company
14

✅ Good

49.21%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
14

✅ Good

55.07%

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
4

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

beam
15

✅ Good

65.33%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
12

⚠️ Fair

60.92%

⚠️ Fair

Highline Wellness CBD
8

❌ Poor

61.75%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
13

⚠️ Fair

55.23%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
12

⚠️ Fair

77.75%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
14

✅ Good

67.29%

✅ Good

Foria
11

⚠️ Fair

59.55%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
13

⚠️ Fair

53.54%

❌ 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 -1.77 2,589.41 kb
House Plant
✅ -0.24

❌ Poor

8,950.81 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -2.44

✅ Good

2,534.29 kb

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
✅ -2.36

✅ Good

3,144.24 kb

❌ Poor

Proper
✅ -1.89

⚠️ Fair

878.51 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -0.61

❌ Poor

2,445.06 kb

⚠️ Fair

FAB CBD
✅ -2.02

✅ Good

1,687.59 kb

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

717.69 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -0.51

❌ Poor

640.28 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -1.83

⚠️ Fair

1,541.48 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness CBD
✅ -2.9

✅ Good

2,762.75 kb

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

4,411.52 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -1.43

❌ Poor

752.11 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -2.5

✅ Good

1,329.65 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -1.79

⚠️ Fair

1,847.96 kb

✅ Good

Trip
✅ -3.38

✅ Good

5,016.67 kb

❌ Poor

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 8.4 4.67
House Plant
0

✅ Good

-
Recess
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
20

❌ Poor

6

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
7

✅ Good

5

⚠️ Fair

Sandland Sleep
15

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

beam
39

❌ Poor

12

❌ Poor

Plant People
8

⚠️ Fair

2

✅ Good

Highline Wellness CBD
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Not Pot
0

✅ Good

-
Feals
8

⚠️ Fair

0

✅ Good

The Good Patch
16

❌ Poor

7

❌ Poor

Foria
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Trip
4

✅ Good

4

✅ 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 49 73 57.94%
House Plant
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Recess
0

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

100.0%
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
10

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

50.0%
FAB CBD
1

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

71.43%
Sandland Sleep
3

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

80.0%
beam
17

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

56.41%
Plant People
2

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

75.0%
Highline Wellness CBD
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Feals
4

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

50.0%
The Good Patch
7

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

56.25%
Foria
2

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

16.67%
Trip
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

50.0%

Ads detected over time

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