Facebook has confirmed a TechCrunch report that it is developing a tool for advertisers to verify they have gained consent to use email addresses uploaded via Custom Audiences. Facebook’s Custom Audiences make it possible for advertisers to target users on its platform by uploading lists of emails, phone numbers and other data and cross-referencing it against user profiles. [...]
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Multichannel, Social
Among the many findings, brands are sending more and more emails, but new subscribers’ share of their lists continued to shrink last year. “Throughout 2017, the share of new subscribers in marketers’ databases consistently declined, falling to its lowest point in Q4 when new subscribers accounted for just 3.5 percent of marketers’ mailable audience,” reports Yes Lifecycle Marketing. [...]
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Listbuilding, Study
I’m a sucker for a good sound bite, and I heard plenty of great ones at our company’s *conference in Boston a few weeks ago. However, as a researcher and former journalist, I also like to dig into a sound bite and see what substance there is (if any) behind it. Here are my favorite quotes from The Email Design Conference and my take on their deeper meanings: [...]
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Event
Here’s a new worry that digital marketers can add to their growing list: A recent spate of email list bombings has led international spam fighter Spamhaus to block IP addresses from a number of well-known email service providers (ESPs), including possibly yours. (See below for advice on what you can do.) And here’s the backstory: [...]
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Listbuilding, Spam, Deliverability
This Banana Republic email is a fairly typical execution of response-aware design. Notice in the mobile rendering that: the preheader text disappears; the top navigation bar links drop down into the bottom navigation section and become vertically stacked; and the links in the bottom navigation become vertically stacked. [...]
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Mobile
“If you can’t win the game, change the rules.” It’s the mantra of scrappy upstarts, but it’s also the mantra of the underhanded. During the Internet Era, we’ve changed the rules of marketing a lot — and it hasn’t all been in the scrappy upstart way. A huge part of that change has involved the metrics that we use to measure success. For instance, we replaced readership in the world of magazine and newspaper ads with impressions in the world of display ads. And we replaced viewership in the world of [...]
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Conversionrate
Here are the fears that we need to overcome to be successful in the coming years: 1. Fear of mistakes. Send enough emails, and you’re bound to make a mistake eventually. Even if you have the right tools and a solid checklist in place, email marketing has too many moving parts, and brands send too many emails, to have a zero error rate. [...]
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Marketing
A good salary isn’t just about the money; it’s about respect. And it’s not just about respect for the individual, but also about respect for the activities that person is involved with. When we surveyed more than 500 US-based email marketers for our State of Email Salaries & Jobs in the US (email registration required), we’d hoped to uncover differences between various geographic regions, industry verticals and company sizes. And we did. But we also uncovered a number of characteristics that identify [...]
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Marketing
The company claims that email with UGC content leads to an increase in conversions of 30 percent, and an increase in average order value of more than 25 percent. Adobe’s recent purchase of UGC platform Livefyre signals that such content will become an even bigger part of marketing campaigns, including email marketing. A pending question, however, is whether user-supplied content is a trend that will eventually lose its fresh appeal in product marketing. It also remains to be seen whether users, who [...]
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ESP, Trend
Email marketing teams and email production workflows are incredibly diverse. That’s what we found when we surveyed more than 900 email marketers for our “2016 State of Email Production” report. Most of the report’s findings (email registration required) serve simply to raise questions about whether a brand should consider changing their team composition, planning process, tool usage and approval process to make their workflow more effective. However, some of the findings point to areas where marketer [...]
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Design
More than 50 percent of all email opens are happening on mobile devices, according to Yesmail, regardless of whether or not the brand is using responsive design. In addition to seeing 24 percent more email clicks, the report found that brands implementing responsive design in all of their emails earn 55 percent higher mobile CTO (click-to-open) rates and 23 percent higher desktop CTO rates. [...]
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Mobile, Study
In honor of Leap Day this month, Litmus (my employer) asked 20 email experts about their vision for the channel in the year 2020, which is when the next Leap Day will be. Their “Email Marketing in 2020” predictions covered everything from inbox functionality to email service provider functionality and from legislation to personalization. Of course, I have my own vision for what the channel will look like in four years. So here are my predictions, along with info on whether I’m out on a limb by myself [...]
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Trend
Email marketing is an increasingly difficult channel to track, explains columnist Chad White, which is why marketers need to rethink their approach and look toward new metrics. [...]
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Intelligence, Marketing
Email marketers have big ambitions for leveraging this popular channel — but many still have a long ways to go. That’s the key takeaway in a new report from Yesmail, out today. Entitled “The 2016 Yesmail Channel Report,” it is the first such study from this email marketing provider. (The above is an image from the report.) The survey based its findings on responses from 200 retailers at the National Retail Federation’s 2015 Shop.org conference last fall — a relatively small sample, but potentially [...]
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Study
It’s not surprising that the way your subscribers interact with your content impacts your deliverability. Positive engagements, like messages that are read and interacted with, factor favorably, while messages that are deleted without being read, ignored or unsubscribed from factor negatively into how mailbox providers view your mail. This not only affects all the email you send, but even a few of the top email providers like Gmail and Yahoo are starting to personalize inbox delivery of emails to [...]
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Deliverability
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