Cannabis - 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.

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

October

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: Recess stands out in the Cannabis industry for email marketing, excelling in both the number of emails sent and email scoring. Foria and The Good Patch also perform well, maintaining a good balance between the quantity of emails and their quality. Feals demonstrates high email scoring but needs improvement in promotions. House Plant, Trip, and FAB CBD face challenges with poor email scoring and promotions and should focus on enhancing both aspects. Notably, several brands like Proper, Sandland Sleep, and beam need substantial improvements across all email marketing metrics.

Email Deliverability Summary: Recess continues to lead in email deliverability with a low spam score and optimal email size. The Honey Pot Company, beam, Feals, and Highline Wellness show potential in deliverability but require improvements in either spam score or email size. House Plant, Trip, and Proper face challenges and need substantial enhancements in both spam score and email size. Not Pot requires improvement in email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: The Honey Pot Company emerges as a leader in ads performance within the Cannabis industry, demonstrating a high number of new ads, good ad velocity, and diverse copies. The Good Patch and FAB CBD also perform well in ads, showcasing variety and good velocity. Recess, Foria, and beam show potential but need improvements in ad velocity and diversity. House Plant, Feals, and Not Pot face challenges and require enhancements across ad velocity and diversity metrics.

Emails sent on average

9.1

Ads published on average

11

Average Spam Score

1.9

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 9.13 60.2%
House Plant
11

✅ Good

49.64%

❌ Poor

Recess
16

✅ Good

64.38%

⚠️ Fair

Standard Dose
6

❌ Poor

75.0%

✅ Good

Proper
7

❌ Poor

51.43%

❌ Poor

The Honey Pot Company
11

✅ Good

55.73%

⚠️ Fair

FAB CBD
8

❌ Poor

48.63%

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
5

❌ Poor

56.2%

⚠️ Fair

beam
4

❌ Poor

62.25%

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
7

❌ Poor

68.14%

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
8

❌ Poor

54.75%

⚠️ Fair

Not Pot
6

❌ Poor

60.17%

⚠️ Fair

Feals
13

✅ Good

75.69%

✅ Good

The Good Patch
13

✅ Good

62.15%

⚠️ Fair

Foria
14

✅ Good

61.36%

⚠️ Fair

Trip
8

❌ Poor

50.38%

❌ 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 -1.9 2,457.07 kb
House Plant
✅ -1.6

❌ Poor

4,993.53 kb

❌ Poor

Recess
✅ -2.34

✅ Good

1,379.19 kb

✅ Good

Standard Dose
✅ -1.55

❌ Poor

1,048.88 kb

✅ Good

Proper
✅ -1.41

❌ Poor

5,840.14 kb

❌ Poor

The Honey Pot Company
✅ -0.9

❌ Poor

1,181.79 kb

✅ Good

FAB CBD
✅ -2.61

✅ Good

4,715.08 kb

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
🟧 0.72

❌ Poor

603.3 kb

✅ Good

beam
✅ -3.5

✅ Good

2,451.83 kb

⚠️ Fair

Plant People
✅ -2.17

✅ Good

1,322.87 kb

✅ Good

Highline Wellness
✅ -2.36

✅ Good

1,749.44 kb

✅ Good

Not Pot
- 3,338.99 kb

❌ Poor

Feals
✅ -2.35

✅ Good

974.81 kb

✅ Good

The Good Patch
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

2,362.51 kb

⚠️ Fair

Foria
✅ -1.76

⚠️ Fair

2,279.27 kb

⚠️ Fair

Trip
✅ -1.63

❌ Poor

3,789.98 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 10.67 5.73
House Plant
6

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Recess
12

❌ Poor

0

✅ Good

Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
52

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

FAB CBD
14

❌ Poor

9

❌ Poor

Sandland Sleep
7

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

beam
18

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Plant People
0

✅ Good

-
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
2

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

Feals
3

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

The Good Patch
22

❌ Poor

13

❌ Poor

Foria
11

⚠️ Fair

6

⚠️ Fair

Trip
13

❌ Poor

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 72 87 54.37%
House Plant
4

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

33.33%
Recess
4

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

66.67%
Standard Dose
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Proper
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
The Honey Pot Company
21

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

57.69%
FAB CBD
9

✅ Good

5

✅ Good

35.71%
Sandland Sleep
3

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

57.14%
beam
11

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

38.89%
Plant People
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Highline Wellness
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Not Pot
1

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

50.0%
Feals
3

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

0.0%
The Good Patch
7

✅ Good

15

✅ Good

68.18%
Foria
7

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

36.36%
Trip
2

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

84.62%

Ads detected over time

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