The 2025 Benchmark Report

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Key takeaways

Email and SMS campaigns

Automated email flows

Mid-market benchmarks

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Mid-market benchmarks

Mid-market benchmarks

Mid-market and enterprise brands often experience different patterns and face unique challenges compared to smaller businesses. With larger subscriber bases, more complex operations, and sophisticated multi-channel strategies, these organizations need specific benchmarks to gauge their performance accurately.

In this section, we break down email and SMS benchmarks for businesses with annual revenues above $30 million, so you can better understand how your enterprise-level campaigns compare to similar organizations.

Campaign engagement rates and revenues

Email campaign engagement rates

Email campaign engagement rates

SMS campaign engagement rates

Revenue per recipient

All

All


Apparel & accessories

Automotive


Electronics


Food & beverage


Hardware & home improvement


Health & beauty


Home & garden


Jewelry

Other

Specialty


Sporting goods


Toys & hobbies

Non-ecommerce

41.52%

52.10%

1.05%

3.56%

0.05%

0.28%

0.22%

0.09%

Flows engagement rates and revenues

Email flows engagement rates

Email flows engagement rates

Revenue by flow types

All

All


Apparel & accessories

Automotive


Electronics


Food & beverage


Hardware & home improvement


Health & beauty


Home & garden


Jewelry


Other

Specialty


Sporting goods


Toys & hobbies

Non-ecommerce

49.93%

64.46%

5.00%

12.23%

1.23%

4.64%

0.71%

0.21%

Key takeaways

Based on the performance data of all aggregated ecommerce industries, here are two key learnings:

AUTOMATIONS

REVENUE PER RECIPIENT

PERFORMANCE

Triggered messages drive more revenue than 

one-off campaigns.

Multi-channel messaging keeps performance high across metrics.

Though email campaigns continue to be a critical component of a comprehensive digital marketing strategy, automated emails deliver higher revenue compared to campaigns, likely because they’re highly personalized to recipients’ behaviors.

  • On average, revenue per recipient and placed order rate for email automations significantly outpace that of email campaigns by more than 2x across industries.
  • Abandoned cart automations generate the most substantial revenue per recipient—up to $42.58 for high-performing companies across ecommerce industries.
     

Using both email and SMS enhances customer reach and engagement. Coordinating these channels ensures broader audience coverage and reinforces key messages across touchpoints.

  • While email excels at driving high average revenue per recipient (e.g., $4.26 for abandoned cart emails), SMS delivers immediacy with click rates as high as 30.37% for high performing home & garden brands.
  • SMS campaigns achieve placed order rates as high as 0.44% for high-performing businesses across industries, complementing email’s higher revenue performance.
     

ACQUISITION

RETENTION

Top companies are skillfully balancing acquisition and retention efforts.

Industry-specific patterns reveal potential for B2C companies at large.

Leading businesses are leveraging marketing automation to target both new and existing customers effectively.


  • Welcome emails drive acquisition, with open rates surpassing 50% on average and placed order rates as high as 8.20% for high-performing businesses across industries.
  • Retention-focused communication, such as post-purchase messages, achieves strong performance, including notably low unsubscribe rates for high-performing business across industries (0.02%).

Performance benchmarks vary by industry and demonstrate the viability of marketing automation for ecommerce and non-ecommerce verticals alike, highlighting the need for personalized strategies.

  • Apparel & accessories brands lead in email revenue per recipient for abandoned carts for high performers ($38.34), while food & beverage SMS campaigns achieve the highest order rates on average (0.16%).
  • For non-ecommerce companies, open rates for email automations reach as high as 64.01% for high performers, and abandoned cart email revenue per recipient peaks at an impressive $151.64.
     

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