Cannabis - March - 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

March

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 March, Standard Dose was the most active email sender with 24 emails, followed by Recess with 18 emails and Beam with 13 emails. When it comes to new ads, Foria was the leader with 37 new ads created, followed by Trip with 34. However, Trip used more unique ad copies (22) compared to Foria's 14. Foria and Beam relied more on videos in their ads, with percentages of 59% and 62% respectively, while Trip leaned more towards images with a 79% usage rate in its new ads.

Emails sent on average

10.3

Ads published on average

13

Average Spam Score

2.0

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 10.47 59.44%
House Plant
10

⚠️ Fair

48.8%

❌ Poor

Recess
18

✅ Good

59.06%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
25

✅ Good

57.96%

⚠️ Fair

Proper
5

❌ Poor

48.6%

❌ Poor

The Honey Pot Company
4

❌ Poor

42.25%

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
7

❌ Poor

48.86%

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
7

❌ Poor

64.71%

⚠️ Fair

beam
12

✅ Good

65.67%

✅ Good

Plant People
7

❌ Poor

61.71%

⚠️ Fair

Highline Wellness CBD
7

❌ Poor

54.43%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
13

✅ Good

56.46%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
12

✅ Good

84.42%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
8

❌ Poor

62.13%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
12

✅ Good

60.5%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
10

⚠️ Fair

55.4%

⚠️ 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 -2.02 2,639.34 kb
House Plant
✅ -0.74

❌ Poor

7,793.18 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -1.68

❌ Poor

2,344.6 kb

✅ Good

Standard Dose
✅ -1.92

⚠️ Fair

3,730.06 kb

❌ Poor

Proper
✅ -4.02

✅ Good

1,644.16 kb

✅ Good

The Honey Pot Company
🟧 2.6

❌ Poor

3,561.04 kb

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
✅ -1.36

❌ Poor

1,729.63 kb

✅ Good

Sandland Sleep
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

843.4 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -3.41

✅ Good

919.21 kb

✅ Good

Plant People
✅ -2.96

✅ Good

1,856.8 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness CBD
✅ -3.33

✅ Good

1,952.75 kb

✅ Good

Not Pot
✅ -1.69

❌ Poor

4,107.85 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -2.99

✅ Good

770.04 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -1.88

⚠️ Fair

1,574.91 kb

✅ Good

Foria
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

1,357.85 kb

✅ Good

Trip
✅ -1.91

⚠️ Fair

3,128.12 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 12.67 8.0
House Plant
10

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Recess
6

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
16

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
14

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
10

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

beam
34

❌ Poor

15

❌ Poor

Plant People
6

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

Highline Wellness CBD
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

-
Feals
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

The Good Patch
21

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Foria
37

❌ Poor

10

❌ Poor

Trip
34

❌ Poor

14

❌ 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 93 94 49.47%
House Plant
5

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

50.0%
Recess
2

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

66.67%
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
5

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

68.75%
FAB CBD
7

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

42.86%
Sandland Sleep
4

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

60.0%
beam
13

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

61.76%
Plant People
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

33.33%
Highline Wellness CBD
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Feals
2

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
The Good Patch
9

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

47.62%
Foria
15

✅ Good

22

✅ Good

59.46%
Trip
27

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

20.59%

Ads detected over time

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