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It’s time to say goodbye to your email open rate

Martech

Here’s how these changes impact email marketing, including open rates, and why measuring direct engagement is crucial for success. Let’s stick to a key metric often used to report on email marketing successes: the email open rate. Marketers can no longer use personal data without restrictions.

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Identifying ‘Real Opens’ Is Key to Adapting to Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection

Litmus

Apple’s new Mail Privacy Protection features will have widespread implications for email marketers , causing marketers to implement multiple strategies to adapt. That’s because these changes, which debut this fall, will prevent email senders from seeing Apple Mail users’ open behavior, IP address, location, and device information.

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Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP): What it means for direct-sold deals

Liveintent

Of course, it’s not enough that Google has decided to do away with third-party cookies; Apple has also changed the terrain of the digital landscape with its Mail Privacy Protection (MPP). A focus on engagement beyond open rates. So what is MPP, and how does it affect publisher direct-sold deals?

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Are Your Email Marketing Metrics Being Impacted by Gmail Prefetching Images?

Litmus

The email marketing community has kept close watch on how Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) may disrupt the significance of traditional email marketing metrics since last fall. If you look at Gmail use from a pure numbers standpoint, prefetching appears to have the power to muddy quite a few open rates. Windows NT 10.0;

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Email Client Market Share in October 2021: Updates and More

Litmus

This time, we’ve got an exciting update to share: We recently launched our new and improved email client market share site to include Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) data, pre- and post-MPP launch. Google Android: 2.3%. Apple Mail Privacy Protection: 14.35%. Apple: 51.4%. Gmail: 33.7%. Outlook: 5.3%.

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6 Trends in Email Marketing to Watch

Litmus

Privacy-proofing. Though privacy has always been high-priority for marketers, the introduction of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) and the looming death of Google’s third-party cookies has put privacy in focus—now more than ever before. Omnichannel marketing campaigns. Newsletters. Rethinking analytics.

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The State of Email Marketers’ Tech Stack

Litmus

Instead, email marketers overwhelmingly focused on open rates—a metric that has become less and less useful with Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection. A big, big hug to all those email marketers out there working on custom spreadsheets in Excel and Google—you’re getting it done and doing the dirty work.