We are on the final leg of migrating AOL and Yahoo mail to the Verizon Media infrastructure and one great thing about that is we can leverage features from each platform and introduce them to a larger audience. One of them is one-click-unsubscribe. Our mission is to provide the best consumer email experience. That means making sure spam and other unwanted mail is out of our users’ mailboxes, while also giving them the best tools to help communicate their changing needs to senders. [...]
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tumblr.com 
Deliverability
Here Are a Few Approaches that Help Make Email Marketing Accessible to All, Regardless of Ability: Incorporate responsive design to ensure that content will scale and display properly on multiple devices, including screen readers. Use semantic code (e.g., tags like h1 and p), which helps screen readers differentiate between content sections. [...]
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emailexperience.org
Design
Not everyone with a vision disability is unable to see. There are 253 million people worldwide who are visually impaired,8 and 320 million worldwide who are colorblind.9 Those with dyslexia, who comprise up to 20% of the global population,10 and other reading-related disabilities also encounter considerable hurdles when faced with text-heavy, misaligned emails. Older populations that experience myopia and may require glasses are also impacted by similar challenges. Consider the following best [...]
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emailexperience.org
Design
Im Jahr 2018 wurden in Deutschland 848,1 Milliarden E-Mails versendet und empfangen. 2017 waren es 771 Milliarden. Damit ist das E-Mail-Volumen in deutschen Postfächern um 10 Prozent gestiegen – deutlich mehr als das weltweite Wachstum, das im Schnitt bei 4,5 Prozent lag. [...]
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web.de 
Study
Countdown timers can be a great marketing tactic at any time, but in busy retail periods, they can be even more effective than usual. To show this, we looked at retailers using countdown timers before and during Black Friday 2018. Countdown timers can be used by online retailers to add a sense of urgency to the customer journey by highlighting key information to shoppers. This might be how long is left before the end of a sale, or a deadline for next day delivery. [...]
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salecycle.com
Customization
Deliverability is not just about following “best practices.” Simply adhering to common standards is not enough to land your messages in the inbox. Email is still the leading marketing channel to reach customers, and its effectiveness is continuing to improve. To take advantage of the opportunity of email, marketers need to be focused on the experience they are providing for their subscribers. [...]
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returnpath.com
Study
We brought together leading industry experts to break down key insights from Litmus’ 2019 State of Email report, explain the trends that are changing the industry, and provide practical advice on what those changes mean. [...]
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litmus.com
Trend
Now that Outlook.com may be starting to support email media queries, we have seen a resurgence in interest about how to use them. Read on to learn about media queries in HTML email. What Are Email Media Queries? Media queries are part of CSS3 and allow developers to customize their content for different presentations or devices. A media query consists of an optional media type (all, handheld, print, TV and so on) and any number of optional expressions that limit when the query will trigger, such as [...]
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emailonacid.com
Design, Mobile
Wer kann nun also animierte GIFs in E-Mails sehen: Outlook für Office 365, Desktop — neu; MS Outlook für Mobilgeräte als App; Outlook 2003 als App; Outlook für Mac als App; Outlook Webversion für mobile und Desktop-Geräte. Empfänger, die Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2016 und sogar Outlook 2019 verwenden, werden nach wie vor statische Bilder sehen — das erste Einzelbild des animierten GIF. [...]
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stripo.email
Design
Bewerbungen für den E-Mail-Award können bis zum 11.03.2019 eingereicht werden. Prämiert werden responsestarke Kampagnen. Verleihung beim DialogSummit. Zum sechsten Mal wird der E-Mail-Award verliehen. Prämiert werden responsestarke E-Mail-Kampagnen. Der Preis wird auf der Fachkonferenz DialogSummit im Hilton Düsseldorf verliehen. Der E-Mail-Award würdigt die Leistung von Unternehmen, die E-Mails entwerfen, welche im täglichen Posteingang herausstechen und mit Freude und Erwartung angeklickt werden. [...]
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email-marketing-forum.de
Event
Radu Neag's Email Insider Summit Europe presentation (Austria 2019). Radu Neag is an EmailGeek & CRM Manager @ Travian Games, breathing email marketing daily - from strategy, design & coding to automatization and implementation. Do you think only Personalization, Segmentation, Reactivation & Subject lines are important? What about Email Design? [...]
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slideshare.net
Design, Study, Test
Good riddance to January… with hibernation, healthy eating and abstinence what excitement did the inbox bring to supplement the lack of sun and fun elsewhere? Well I’m glad you asked, don’t say we don’t give you anything [...]
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emaildesignreview.com
Gallery
Das ist COI. Das Kürzel steht für "Chat over IMAP" – also für das Chatten über die IMAP-Server, über die der weltweite E-Mail-Verkehr läuft. Rund 76 Prozent dieser Server nutzen die Software Dovecot der Kölner Firma Open-Xchange, die mit ihrem Softwarepaket "OX App Suite" außerdem eine Open-Source-Alternative zu den Büroprogrammen von Microsoft und Google anbietet. [...]
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lead-digital.de
Trend
If you do a lot of email marketing, you understand the importance of subject lines. A great subject line can drastically widen your email marketing funnel. It can be the difference between 10 and 60% of your subscribers considering your offer. The problem though is that, before you start testing, you won’t know for sure if your subject line will perform. [...]
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gethighlights.co
Subjectline, Study, Tool
Why Does DPI Scaling Mangle My Email So Much? This display setting causes some parts of the email to scale in size, while others remain the same. That’s why your email looks distorted and warped. Widths and heights specified in HTML attributes remain pixel values. Widths and heights specified in VML code remain pixel values. Other pixel values (px) are converted to point (pt) values instead. This is why we see problems, like font display issues. [...]
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emailonacid.com
Design
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