Haircare - May - 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.

Haircare

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

Haircare

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 May, Color Wow and Crown Affair maintain their leadership positions in emails, with a total of 32 emails each.

Turning our attention to advertising, Luvme Hair and Prose dominate the scene, creating a staggering 90 new ads each. Notably, Luvme Hair showcases their creativity with the highest number of ad copies with a total of 88 unique ad copies used.

In terms of ad strategy, both Luvme Hair and Prose prioritize videos to engage their audience. Luvme Hair used 70 videos alongside 20 images. Similarly, Prose utilizes 87 videos alongside only 3 images.

Emails sent on average

15.3

Ads published on average

39

Average Spam Score

1.6

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 15.25 55.28%
Sienna Naturals
14

⚠️ Fair

52.21%

⚠️ Fair

Bread
5

❌ Poor

50.6%

⚠️ Fair

Crown Affair
32

✅ Good

65.47%

✅ Good

Keeps
6

❌ Poor

58.0%

⚠️ Fair

amika
9

❌ Poor

44.89%

❌ Poor

Color Wow
32

✅ Good

46.41%

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
19

✅ Good

46.74%

❌ Poor

Overtone
10

❌ Poor

42.9%

❌ Poor

eSalon
8

❌ Poor

47.88%

❌ Poor

Good Dye Young
2

❌ Poor

81.5%

✅ Good

Prose
21

✅ Good

50.52%

⚠️ Fair

Champo
11

❌ Poor

55.18%

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
23

✅ Good

68.83%

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
20

✅ Good

61.45%

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
24

✅ Good

51.88%

⚠️ Fair

Nutrafol
8

❌ Poor

73.0%

✅ Good

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 -1.59 2,218.05 kb
Sienna Naturals
✅ -2.84

✅ Good

3,672.63 kb

❌ Poor

Bread
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

7,168.1 kb

❌ Poor

Crown Affair
✅ -1.69

⚠️ Fair

1,444.3 kb

✅ Good

Keeps
✅ -1.77

✅ Good

948.93 kb

✅ Good

amika
✅ -1.87

✅ Good

4,520.36 kb

❌ Poor

Color Wow
✅ -0.98

❌ Poor

4,303.24 kb

❌ Poor

Function of Beauty
✅ -1.59

⚠️ Fair

2,538.19 kb

❌ Poor

Overtone
✅ -2.1

✅ Good

3,699.28 kb

❌ Poor

eSalon
✅ -0.55

❌ Poor

791.16 kb

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
✅ -2.0

✅ Good

478.88 kb

✅ Good

Prose
✅ -0.4

❌ Poor

1,653.59 kb

✅ Good

Champo
✅ -4.38

✅ Good

3,622.28 kb

❌ Poor

Briogeo
✅ -1.47

⚠️ Fair

940.32 kb

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
✅ -1.71

⚠️ Fair

604.07 kb

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
✅ -1.07

❌ Poor

701.94 kb

✅ Good

Nutrafol
✅ -3.04

✅ Good

752.33 kb

✅ Good

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 38.88 22.75
Sienna Naturals
28

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

Bread
12

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

Crown Affair
34

✅ Good

28

❌ Poor

Keeps
27

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

amika
33

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Color Wow
22

✅ Good

13

✅ Good

Function of Beauty
51

❌ Poor

13

✅ Good

Overtone
24

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

eSalon
72

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Good Dye Young
50

❌ Poor

12

✅ Good

Prose
90

❌ Poor

61

❌ Poor

Champo
30

✅ Good

24

⚠️ Fair

Briogeo
35

⚠️ Fair

9

✅ Good

BELLAMI Hair
24

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Luvme Hair
90

❌ Poor

86

❌ Poor

Nutrafol
0

✅ Good

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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 117 489 78.62%
Sienna Naturals
8

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

71.43%
Bread
3

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

75.0%
Crown Affair
17

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

50.0%
Keeps
0

✅ Good

26

✅ Good

96.3%
amika
22

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

33.33%
Color Wow
1

✅ Good

21

✅ Good

95.45%
Function of Beauty
11

✅ Good

40

✅ Good

78.43%
Overtone
13

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

45.83%
eSalon
6

✅ Good

66

✅ Good

91.67%
Good Dye Young
1

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

70.0%
Prose
3

✅ Good

87

✅ Good

96.67%
Champo
2

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

93.33%
Briogeo
4

✅ Good

31

✅ Good

88.57%
BELLAMI Hair
6

✅ Good

17

✅ Good

70.83%
Luvme Hair
20

✅ Good

70

✅ Good

77.78%
Nutrafol
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

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Ads detected over time

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