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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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Study finds iOS 15 is inflating email open rates

Martech

Apple’s new Mail Privacy Protection (MPP) is having a significant impact on email marketing, according to a new study from Campaign Monitor that found that average open rates were up 3.5% year-over-year in 2021, while click-to-open rates were down 3.6%. Get the daily newsletter digital marketers rely on.

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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. Consider how traffic from your newsletter is contributing to engagement on your website.

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iOS 15 is out, but marketers can shake off the loss of email open rates

Martech

The best news to come out of “Pixelgeddon” – also known as Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection feature, which went into effect on Monday, Sept. 20 – is that I will never have to listen to another conference speaker tell his audience, “ It’s all about the opens.” Workarounds waste time.

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How publishers can adapt to iOS 15 with LiveIntent

Liveintent

In a nutshell, there are three main features that make up Apple’s latest release: Private Relay , Hide My Email , and Mail Privacy Protection. Update: Allows for alternative one-off email addresses to be used to sign up for your newsletters, and in effect “hides” a user’s true email address. Private Relay.

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2021 Email Trends to Date and Predictions for the Future: Webinar Recording + Q&A

Litmus

Privacy & trust. Newsletters. By time or number of newsletters sent? And if it’s number of newsletters, how many newsletters should we send before segregating the inactive users? Regardless of what happens, we need to rethink our email marketing approach without open rates and geolocation.

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How to Create a Reliable Opens Audience for Non-Apple Mail Users

Litmus

Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection announcement falls into that third category. One such thing is leveraging the clients and devices that still track and report on opens to serve as a proxy for open rate performance and A/B testing. Three things are inevitable in life: death, taxes, and change. And that’s it!