Litmus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection news continues to be a source of confusion, questions, and more for email marketers like you. Since we can’t rely on opens, what do you recommend? And how can I convince my boss that open rate doesn’t matter? your open rate is ~30% at all destinations, but 6% at Hotmail).

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Litmus

JUNE 24, 2021

As news of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection sinks in for email marketers, questions linger around how it will ultimately impact email programs as they stand today. Assuming Apple Mail open data becomes unreliable, here are five tips to help you prepare for Mail Privacy Protection. Evaluate your potential impact.

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Litmus

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Now that Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) is out in the wild, has it impacted email marketing like we thought it would? Fortunately, mailbox providers don’t really use opens to determine email deliverability, so we recommend focusing more on engagement metrics such as reads, clicks, and inbox behaviors.

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Litmus

AUGUST 3, 2021

Have you heard of a not-so-little thing called Mail Privacy Protection ? When Apple Mail users opt in to that, it prevents email senders from seeing who opens, time of open, geolocation data, and the specific device used. As you might have already guessed, it will have major repercussions for email marketing.

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Act-On

JULY 8, 2024

This bears out in our own email testing: using the recipient’s first name and the company’s name in the subject line drove an average 83% improvement in click-to-open rates. We’ve all received the equivalent of a “Hi Matt,” (or the embarrassing “Hi [FirstName]”) opener on an email that otherwise contained zero personalized messages.

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ConvertKit

JULY 6, 2021

For anyone using the Mail app to view their emails, all open tracking pixels will be automatically loaded , causing open rates to become even more inaccurate and unreliable. Privacy is paramount, and we aren’t advocating that senders are entitled to a recipient’s open data. Deliverability Defined Website.

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Litmus

JANUARY 25, 2022

The open rate is how many of your delivered emails were “opened” and is great for gauging the effectiveness of subject lines, monitoring email deliverability , and measuring high-level subscriber engagement. Open rate can also give you insight into your historical brand presence. Unsubscribe rate.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

APRIL 15, 2024

Some are happy to see an open rate of over 20% on a campaign, while others may consider a click rate higher than 10% to be the mark of success. How should you consider email open metrics? While Apple MPP and caching make an open-rate-only strategy unreliable, it’s still a huge piece of the puzzle.

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Zoominfo

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Recent mail privacy protection changes in Apple’s new iOS 15 have put the crosshairs on email open rates, possibly ending that metric’s usefulness to marketing teams. There are absolutely better barometers, and even absent Apple making this change, I would still say open rates should not be your rudder,” Hopkinson says.

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Martech

MAY 24, 2024

When I talk with clients who are having deliverability problems, especially when sending into Gmail, I call it being in Google Jail. From deliverability to engagement to ethics to ISP rules, there is nothing good about buying a list. Sentence : Six months or longer in deliverability prison. Sentence : 100% open rate for life.

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Litmus

JULY 16, 2021

Consumer privacy protection is a huge trend imparting marketing as a whole—and email marketing specifically in the coming months. With Apple Mail Privacy Protection rolling out in September, how we “do email” is changing. Watch the recording here, or read the recap below: What privacy changes are happening?

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Spiralytics

JANUARY 11, 2023

Earlier marketers used to track open rates by collecting users’ information using invisible pixels. But that changed in 2022 when Apple’s MPP (Mail Privacy Protection) update altered the course of the email marketing industry forever. Ensure deliverability. The Ultimate Email Marketing Trends in 2023.

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Litmus

APRIL 18, 2024

Email marketers need to consider not only crafting, designing, and developing individual emails but also strategy, planning, operations, and deliverability—and of course, coordinating these efforts with the rest of your team. The journey of an email from creation to sending takes hours of behind-the-scenes effort.

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Litmus

AUGUST 2, 2021

Since we may not be able to rely on open rates anymore as an indication of activity (because of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection ), you should be more intentional about asking your subscribers if they still want to hear from you. We share 6 tips for successful re-permission campaigns worth reading.

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Litmus

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For example: Click-through rate (CTR). Unsubscribe rate. Bounce rate. Deliverability rate or inbox placement rate. Email list size or growth rate. Conversion rate (CVR). Email read rate/read time. Phase #6: Email deliverability. Determine how you’ll measure your success.

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Litmus

JULY 8, 2021

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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Martech

OCTOBER 30, 2023

One thing to consider if you are having severe deliverability challenges is a double opt-in email. If you are sending too frequently, you may see a drop in your open rates. Too many complaints will hurt your deliverability rate and sender reputation. This happens when your subscribers opt in through a sign-up form.

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Litmus

DECEMBER 15, 2023

We asked email marketers what they’re responsible for in this year’s State of Email Workflows report, and out of a list of eleven options from design to development to deliverability, 22% said they handle ‘all of the above.’ Here’s what to include: Email marketing goals. What do you want your emails to do? Audience overview.

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Litmus

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Look at your open rate at the destination level. When asked how Apple Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) impacts deliverability , Meyers explained what open rates really indicate. Open rates were never super accurate to begin with, if we’re being honest. The key to making sense of open rates?

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2022

Email marketing, and the technology that enables it, have evolved to deal with challenges like spam and deliverability and also to take advantage of opportunities, such as the ever-increasing sophistication of data usage for hyper-personalization. Deliverability management. Improved deliverability and design of email messages.

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Scoop.it

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Moreover, it enhances email deliverability and sender reputation. The recipient will instantly recognize who the email is from which will increase the open rate and subscriber engagement. This can be detrimental for your email campaign performance and deliverability. Here’s how Wayfair has employed BIMI in their emails.

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Binary Demand

APRIL 19, 2024

Mobile open rate When crafting email content, consider both desktop and mobile users. of subscribers), 70% use iPhones, influencing mobile open rates. Click-to-open rate The click-to-open rate (CTOR) is a crucial metric for email performance. Open Rate When do you check emails the most?

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Litmus

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A great open rate just shows how flashy your subject line is. And, there’s been a lot of change on the reliability of open rates anyway because of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection. As part of the report on negative metrics, I would also look at deliverability.

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Litmus

JUNE 28, 2021

Consistent email engagement and deliverability. Things that will get my spidey senses tingling would be dramatic drops in deliverability, open, or click-through rates. Friendly note: We’re actively covering the Apple Mail Privacy Protection news. Then dive into deliverability.

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Litmus

JUNE 17, 2021

Use it to get your subscribers’ attention and your emails opened! And while Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection has thrown us a curveball , that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t care about opens anymore. Data by Yes Lifecycle Marketing has shown that personalizing subject lines can increase open rates by 50% !

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Litmus

JULY 7, 2021

There’s also the tricky little Apple Mail Privacy Protection detail you’ll need to contend with starting in 2021. Since you might not have as much insight into open rates this fall for Apple Mail users, you need to start choosing your metrics and strategy carefully. Unique emails or automations take time to develop.

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Martech

MARCH 30, 2022

The open rate, for example, has been a popular success metric ever since we learned how to use it back in the early days of HTML email. But it’s a flawed and unreliable metric, especially now that Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection feature masks a campaign’s true open rate.

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Litmus

JULY 28, 2021

Especially since as much as 24% of respondents look at the preview text first when deciding to open an email. Autoplicity saw almost an 8% increase in their open rates when they started using preview text. And WeddingWire saw a 30% increase in click-through rates by testing theirs. Don’t believe us?

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Litmus

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Now that Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection dominates reading environments , email designs must accommodate several scenarios—including webmail, desktop, and mobile–often without a lot of visibility. When you don’t have insight into where your audience is opening, using a hybrid/responsive design is a must.

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DotDigital

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Email open rates have always been a controversial topic matter. So all marketers care about email open rates. Opens have always been a “noisy” metric. As a result, it should always be considered a guide, a possibility that the end recipient has opened your email. Who does care? And quite rightly so.

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Litmus

APRIL 4, 2024

To make email marketing work as a channel, you need to perform in three main areas: Deliverability, engagement, and value. Go beyond open rates as your engagement metric Engagement is a key aspect of making it to the inbox. On top of that, Nicholas says many people don’t realize that open rates can be inflated by bots.

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Litmus

JULY 20, 2021

The open rate is how many of your delivered emails were “opened” and is great for gauging the effectiveness of subject lines, monitoring email deliverability, and measuring high-level subscriber engagement. Here’s how to calculate this: Open rate = (number of emails opened / number of emails delivered) x 100.

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Navigate the Channel

JULY 12, 2023

Two of the most-discussed metrics in email marketing are open rate and click-through rate (CTR). Open rate Open rate shows the percentage of the total email campaign recipients that opened your email send. Because open rates are reported as percentages, your open rate would be 32.4%.

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Litmus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Don’t rely on open rates as your engagement metric. But popular as they may be, open rates aren’t the email metric that accurately indicates that’s happening. For starters, Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection now impacts more than 53% of email market share , and inflates open rates for those who’ve opted in.

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Scoop.it

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Avoid resending the emails to non-openers automatically. As Apple has launched Mail Privacy Protection feature, the open rate might not get tracked correctly and it can lead to too many unnecessary communications. Monitor email deliverability rate regularly. Pause the automation workflows if needed.

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Litmus

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Then in 2020, it was the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which strengthened measures in the U.S. 2021 was the year of Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) , and looming on the horizon is the death of third-party cookies from Google in 2023. Track engagement with metrics other than open rates.

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Vision6

MARCH 8, 2022

With Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection cementing the death of open rates, marketers are more than ever turning to the next best thing to measure engagement…click-through rates. And what better way to boost your click-through rates than by using gifs to spice up your emails.

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