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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. Security bots may inflate click rates in email reports. Let’s stick to a key metric often used to report on email marketing successes: the email open rate.

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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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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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iOS 15: What you need to know

DotDigital

The iOS 15 update brings with it a range of new privacy features, but there are two which will have a direct impact on marketers, and email marketers in particular. These are: Mail Privacy Protection provides anonymity to recipients receiving emails on iOS devices by preventing opens and IP addresses from being tracked.

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Adapt Your Marketing Data Analytics for a New Era of Customer Privacy

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

The movement toward consumer privacy protections is accelerating, and that’s a good thing. However, the downstream effects of increased data collection restrictions mean various metrics, like open rates and measurement methods used to benchmark success, are no longer reliable. Watch the webinar.

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Holistic Email Metrics Matrix: Are You Seeing the Whole Picture?

Litmus

Using the wrong metric to measure success, like unwisely using open rates to determine a winning subject line. Conversions and conversion rate. What about the open rate? Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection will make the open rate increasingly difficult to rely on. Opens and open rate.

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6 Ways to Privacy-Proof Your Email Program

Litmus

In 2014, Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) went into effect, with The European Union’s privacy law— General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) —following in 2018. Then in 2020, it was the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which strengthened measures in the U.S. Track engagement with metrics other than open rates.

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