Yoga - 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.

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

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: Lululemon dominates the Yoga industry in email marketing, excelling in both quantity and quality. Beyond Yoga and Vuori follow, with Beyond Yoga showing strength in promotions but needing improvement in email scoring. Vuori, however, lags in promotions. Prana and Alo Yoga fall into a fair category, with Alo Yoga excelling in email scoring but struggling in promotions. Born Living Yoga, Recess Activewear, and Mirror face challenges, needing substantial improvements in both email scoring and promotions. Fabletics lags behind with no emails sent.

Email Deliverability Summary: Lululemon secures the top spot in email deliverability, displaying exceptional spam score and email size optimization. Recess Activewear performs well in deliverability despite poor email scoring and promotions. Born Living Yoga and Vuori struggle, requiring substantial enhancements in both spam score and email size optimization. Fabletics lacks data for evaluation. Alo Yoga excels in spam score but faces challenges in email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Beyond Yoga leads in ads performance, showcasing high ad velocity and a diverse range of copies. Fabletics and Lululemon also perform well, displaying a good balance of ad velocity and unique copies. Vuori and Born Living Yoga show promise but need improvements in both ad velocity and diversity. Prana, Recess Activewear, and Yoga Strong face challenges, requiring enhancements in both ad velocity and diversity.

In conclusion, Lululemon dominates in both email marketing and deliverability, securing a strong position in the Yoga industry. Beyond Yoga leads in ads performance, closely followed by Fabletics and Lululemon. Vuori and Born Living Yoga show promise but need improvements, while Prana, Recess Activewear, Yoga Strong, Alo Yoga, and Mirror lag behind in various aspects, requiring substantial enhancements to compete effectively.

Emails sent on average

11.0

Ads published on average

29

Average Spam Score

3.5

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 59.64%
Recess Activewear
3

❌ Poor

67.0%

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
8

❌ Poor

45.25%

❌ Poor

Alo Yoga
12

⚠️ Fair

63.33%

⚠️ Fair

Beyond Yoga
22

✅ Good

61.05%

⚠️ Fair

Fabletics
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Vuori
21

✅ Good

46.29%

❌ Poor

Yoga Strong
3

❌ Poor

66.0%

✅ Good

Lululemon
22

✅ Good

75.09%

✅ Good

Prana
17

✅ Good

57.94%

⚠️ Fair

Mirror
2

❌ Poor

43.5%

❌ 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 -3.51 2,664.79 kb
Recess Activewear
✅ -5.1

✅ Good

4,711.57 kb

❌ Poor

Born Living Yoga
✅ -0.98

❌ Poor

5,938.98 kb

❌ Poor

Alo Yoga
✅ -7.31

✅ Good

1,967.56 kb

✅ Good

Beyond Yoga
✅ -0.91

❌ Poor

1,902.36 kb

✅ Good

Fabletics
- -
Vuori
✅ -1.67

❌ Poor

3,808.73 kb

❌ Poor

Yoga Strong
✅ 0.0

❌ Poor

10.81 kb

✅ Good

Lululemon
✅ -6.6

✅ Good

651.3 kb

✅ Good

Prana
✅ -3.63

⚠️ Fair

3,111.37 kb

❌ Poor

Mirror
✅ -2.6

❌ Poor

9,390.09 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 28.8 11.4
Recess Activewear
13

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Born Living Yoga
25

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

-
Beyond Yoga
84

❌ Poor

14

❌ Poor

Fabletics
67

❌ Poor

8

✅ Good

Vuori
30

⚠️ Fair

8

✅ Good

Yoga Strong
4

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

Lululemon
43

❌ Poor

11

⚠️ Fair

Prana
22

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

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 208 76 26.39%
Recess Activewear
6

✅ Good

7

✅ Good

53.85%
Born Living Yoga
5

✅ Good

20

✅ Good

80.0%
Alo Yoga
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Beyond Yoga
80

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

4.76%
Fabletics
38

✅ Good

28

✅ Good

41.79%
Vuori
27

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

10.0%
Yoga Strong
0

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

100.0%
Lululemon
36

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

13.95%
Prana
16

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

18.18%
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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