Pets

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Pets
industry. Our goal is to provide for free insights and benchmarks on their digital marketing strategy, email practices and advertising velocity. We'll compare at least 15 brands every month with thresholds. If you want more detailed insights, you can subscribe to our newsletter.

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Pets

industry. They're sorted from the most recent to the oldest - so you can compare them for future reference.

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Pet - February - 2024

Created on
April 16, 2024
Latest update on
April 16, 2024
10.3
Emails published on average
27
Ads launched on average
3.4
Average Spam Score

Email Marketing Performance: Petco emerges as the leader in email marketing, demonstrating exceptional performance by sending 21 emails with a high email scoring and a significant percentage of promotions, showcasing effective email campaign management and engagement strategies. Bark Box closely follows with 22 emails sent, boasting a good email scoring, although with a fair percentage of promotions, suggesting potential optimizations for promotional content. Incredible Pets showcases strong email marketing performance with 19 emails sent, displaying a good email scoring despite a fair percentage of promotions, indicating effective content delivery and engagement strategies.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Wild One exhibits poor email deliverability with a large email size, suggesting potential challenges in content optimization and inbox placement. West & Willow displays mixed results in email deliverability, showcasing a fair spam score and email size, suggesting potential areas for improvement in email content and management practices. Maxbone demonstrates subpar email deliverability with a fair spam score and a large email size, indicating potential challenges in content optimization and inbox placement.

Advertising Impact and Diversity: Petco stands out in advertising impact and diversity, with 96 impactful ads demonstrating both volume and variety in content, highlighting its robust market presence in the pet brands industry. Bark Box closely follows with 49 impactful ads, showcasing a strong advertising presence and engagement diversity, effectively positioning itself in the competitive market. Petcube maintains a solid advertising impact with 41 impactful ads, although with limited diversity in new images, suggesting potential areas for content variation and innovation.

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Pet - January - 2024

Created on
February 10, 2024
Latest update on
February 10, 2024
9.4
Emails published on average
44
Ads launched on average
3.6
Average Spam Score

Email Marketing Performance: Bark Box leads the industry with 29 emails, boasting a good performance score of 59.83% while maintaining a balanced promotion ratio (6%). Petco closely follows with 28 emails, exhibiting strong performance and effective promotion strategies (78%). Ren's Pets, Native Pet, and PetPlate show promise in email marketing but need adjustments in both performance and promotion ratios to compete effectively. Maxbone, Fable Pets, PETKIT, Petlab Co., Pets Corner, Petcube, Incredible Pets, Pets at Home, West & Willow, and Wild One face challenges in email marketing performance and promotion strategies, requiring significant enhancements to effectively engage consumers and remain competitive.

Email Deliverability and Spam Scores: Maxbone and Fable Pets exhibit positive spam scores, showcasing good email deliverability despite challenges in email size management. Petco, Petcube, Pets Corner, PETKIT, and Native Pet demonstrate effective email deliverability with positive spam scores and efficient email size management. PetPlate, Ren's Pets, and Petlab Co. show promise in spam scores but require improvements in email size management for optimal deliverability. Incredible Pets, Bark Box, and Wild One face challenges in both spam scores and email size management, necessitating strategic adjustments to optimize email deliverability.

Advertising Performance: Petco leads in advertising with 272 impactful ads, emphasizing both volume and diversity in ad content. Petlab Co., Bark Box, and Pets at Home closely follow, showcasing a variety of unique copies and strong advertising volume. PETKIT, Fable Pets, Maxbone, PetPlate, Wild One, Petcube, West & Willow, Native Pet, Ren's Pets, and Pets Corner exhibit potential in advertising but require enhancements in both volume and diversity to optimize advertising impact and competitiveness in the Pet Brands industry. Incredible Pets struggles with advertising impact and diversity, needing significant improvements to effectively engage consumers.

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Pet - December - 2023

Created on
December 26, 2023
Latest update on
December 26, 2023
16.0
Emails published on average
36
Ads launched on average
4.0
Average Spam Score

Email Marketing Overview: In the dynamic Pet industry, the past month witnessed a substantial email uptick, averaging 17.67 per brand. Petco takes the lead, sending a remarkable 73 emails with exceptional performance and promotions. Ren's Pets follows with commendable engagement, but struggles with promotions, presenting an area for improvement. Wild One's strategy, although frequent, lacks desired engagement and promotions, putting it in a fair performance category. Executives are advised to focus on refining email content for optimal engagement and promotions to maximize impact.

Email Deliverability Insights: Deliverability remains robust across the industry, with notable variations. Petco leads with an impressive -9.1 spam score, coupled with an efficient email size strategy. PETKIT also stands out, excelling in spam score, though facing challenges with email size. Wild One's deliverability is compromised with a suboptimal spam score and large email size. Executives should prioritize enhancing deliverability for brands facing challenges to ensure consistent, reliable communication with customers.

Ads Performance: Advertising in the Pet sector surged, averaging 37.93 ads per brand. Bark Box dominates with a staggering 127 ads and a diverse mix of images and videos, securing a leading position in advertising diversity. Petlab Co. follows closely, excelling in both volume and variety. Conversely, Pets Corner struggles, lacking in both ad volume and diversity. Executives are urged to diversify advertising content and volume to maintain a competitive edge in the bustling Pet industry.

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Pet - November - 2023

Created on
November 16, 2023
Latest update on
November 16, 2023
11.5
Emails published on average
28
Ads launched on average
3.6
Average Spam Score

Email Marketing Summary: Petco takes the lead in the Pet industry, excelling in both email volume and performance. Bark Box and Ren's Pets are competitive but need improvement in reducing promotional content. Brands like Wild One and Petlab Co. struggle, particularly in email scoring, and should refine their strategies for better engagement.

Email Deliverability Summary: Petco showcases exceptional deliverability with a remarkably low spam score and optimized email sizes. Wild One, West & Willow, and Maxbone face challenges in this area, requiring attention to enhance their email deliverability. Pets At Home, although performing well, can improve its email size optimization.

Ads Performance Summary: Petco dominates in advertising, with a high number of ads and diverse content. Bark Box and Petlab Co. follow closely, maintaining a good balance of ad velocity and variety. Native Pet, Ren's Pets, and Maxbone need to ramp up their advertising efforts, while PetPlate and Incredible Pets are currently not active in this space.

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Pet - October - 2023

Created on
October 17, 2023
Latest update on
October 17, 2023
11.3
Emails published on average
31
Ads launched on average
3.7
Average Spam Score

Email Marketing Summary: Petco leads the Pet Industry in email marketing, sending the most emails with excellent scoring and promotions. Bark Box closely follows with good email practices and a substantial quantity. Ren's Pets and Maxbone exhibit strong performances, but Ren's Pets needs to address promotions. Fable Pets, Native Pet, and PETKIT show potential but need improvements, especially in scoring and promotions. Petlab Co., West & Willow, Pets At Home, Petcube, Wild One, and Incredible Pets need significant enhancements in both quantity and quality of emails.

Email Deliverability Summary: Wild One excels in email deliverability, combining a good spam score with optimal email size. Petco, Petlab Co., PetPlate, and Pets At Home also demonstrate strong deliverability. Fable Pets and Petcube maintain good spam scores but need improvements in email size. Ren's Pets, Maxbone, Native Pet, and Incredible Pets face challenges and should focus on improving both spam scores and email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Petlab Co. dominates the Pet Industry in ads performance, demonstrating high velocity and a diverse range of unique copies. Fable Pets, Petco, West & Willow, Pets At Home, and Bark Box also maintain commendable ad strategies. Ren's Pets, Maxbone, Native Pet, Wild One, Petcube, PETKIT, and Incredible Pets face challenges and need to enhance their ads strategies for better overall performance.

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Pet - September - 2023

Created on
September 13, 2023
Latest update on
September 13, 2023
9.5
Emails published on average
29
Ads launched on average
3.4
Average Spam Score

Email Marketing Summary: Petco leads the Pet industry in email marketing, sending the most emails with good email scoring. Bark Box also performs well in email marketing with good email scoring, but it has room for improvement in reducing promotions. Brands like Ren's Pets and Fable Pets have good email scores but need to work on reducing promotions.

Email Deliverability Summary: Wild One excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. Petco, despite leading in email marketing, has room for improvement in email deliverability, especially in email size. On the other hand, brands like West & Willow and PetPlate need to improve both spam scores and email size for better deliverability.

Ads Performance Summary: Petlab Co. dominates advertising in the Pet industry with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Bark Box and Petco also perform well in advertising. Brands like Native Pet and Incredible Pets need to focus more on their advertising efforts.

In summary, Petco leads in email marketing, while Wild One excels in email deliverability. Petlab Co. dominates advertising, with Bark Box and Petco also performing well. Brands like Ren's Pets and Fable Pets have potential in email marketing but need to work on reducing promotions. West & Willow and PetPlate need to improve both email deliverability and advertising efforts.

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Pet - August - 2023

Created on
August 17, 2023
Latest update on
August 17, 2023
7.4
Emails published on average
27
Ads launched on average
4.0
Average Spam Score

In August, Petco led the way in emails with 27, while Ren's Pets secured the second position with 16 promotional emails.

Shifting to advertising, Petlab Co. and Petco continued to dominate, creating 106 and 86 new ads respectively this month. Notably, Petlab Co. utilized the highest number of ad copies (64) compared to all the benchmark brands.

Regarding media usage in their new ads, both Petlab Co. and Petco emphasized videos over images. Petlab Co. featured 101 videos alongside a single image, while Petco employed 45 videos in contrast to 33 images.

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Pet - July - 2023

Created on
July 19, 2023
Latest update on
July 19, 2023
9.1
Emails published on average
32
Ads launched on average
2.8
Average Spam Score

During July, Bark Box took the lead in emails with 20 sent, while Petco followed closely with 17 emails.

As for advertising, the top brand remains unchanged, with Petlab Co. in the first position creating 112 new ads, and Petco in the second position with 90 new ads and the highest number of ad copies (47) among all the brands in the benchmark.

In terms of ad strategy, Petlab Co. solely utilized videos (112), while Petco employed a combination of 51 images and 35 videos.

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Pet - June - 2023

Created on
June 19, 2023
Latest update on
June 19, 2023
6.9
Emails published on average
31
Ads launched on average
3.9
Average Spam Score

In June, Petco took the lead with 19 emails sent, while Bark Box and Maxbone secured the second position with 15 emails each.

In terms of ads, Petlab Co. stood out by creating 110 new ads during June, followed closely by Petco with 99 new ads. Additionally, Petco utilized the highest number of unique ad copies with a total of 53 in their new ads of this month.

Turning to ad strategy, Petlab Co. prioritized videos over images, utilizing 98 videos and only 12 images in their ads. On the other hand, Petco adopted a balanced approach, using an equal number of 46 images and 46 videos in their ads.

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Pet - May - 2023

Created on
May 15, 2023
Latest update on
May 15, 2023
6.7
Emails published on average
25
Ads launched on average
2.7
Average Spam Score

In the month of May, Ren's Pets maintains its prominent position as the industry leader in emails, delivering a total of 15 of promotional emails. Following closely behind is Petco, with 12 emails.

When it comes to advertisements, Petco takes the lead, creating 82 new ads, accompanied by the highest number of ad copies with a total of 51. Bark Box follows closely with 69 new ads.

In terms of ad strategy, Petco leans towards videos, incorporating 42 videos alongside 34 images. Conversely, Bark Box places a strong emphasis on images with 51 images and only 15 videos.

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Pet - April - 2023

Created on
April 12, 2023
Latest update on
April 12, 2023
8.2
Emails published on average
21
Ads launched on average
2.5
Average Spam Score

In April, both Maxbone and Ren's Pets sent the highest number of emails, each sending 17 emails.

As for advertisements, Wilde One sent the most new ads with 81, followed by Pets At Home with 43.

Wilde One prioritizes videos in its ads, with 69 new videos and 11 new images. Pets At Home uses almost equal numbers of videos and images, with 13 new videos and 11 new images in its new ads.

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Pet - February - 2023

Created on
March 21, 2023
Latest update on
April 1, 2023
9.3
Emails published on average
20
Ads launched on average
2.7
Average Spam Score

Since the 3rd week of January, there was a remarquable increase in the number of emails sent by pet brands in anticipation of Valentine's Day. During February, Maxbone was the top sender with 27 emails and in terms of advertisements, Petco was the most prolific with 47 new ads, followed by Pets At Home with 43 and Maxbone with 34. These figures indicate a clear effort from these pet brands to capitalize on the Valentine's Day holiday season.

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From Furry Friends to Loyal Customers: Email and Marketing Standards of DTC Brands in the Pets Industry

The pet brands offer everything from food and treats to toys and accessories for a happy and healthy pet. Catering to pet owners' desire for safe, high-quality and effective products, is the main challenge these brands are facing. Learn how these brands promote their commitment to pet health and joy, and provide perfect products for their clients’ pets.

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