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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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Mail Privacy Protection and iOS 15

Blue Flame Thinking

With the expected launch of iOS 15 this September, Apple is adding another highly debated privacy feature, Mail Privacy Protection. The Challenges of Increased Privacy. So, what is this new feature and how will it potentially affect one of the most valuable marketing channels B2B organizations have at their disposal?

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How to Measure Email Marketing Success: Beyond Open Rate

Litmus

That’s why we created the “Email Analytics in 2022: A Survival Guide.” This handy resource will help you understand: Why email analytics like the open rate don’t mean what they once did. For years, core metrics like email open rates were a staple in email marketing programs. Why have email metrics changed?

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5 Tips to Prepare Your Email Program for Mail Privacy Protection (and Still Be Successful)

Litmus

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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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. Mail Privacy Protection. Update: To quote Apple, “In the Mail app, Mail Privacy Protection stops senders from using invisible pixels to collect information about the user.

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

Litmus

April chimed in, talking about the SparkPost marketing team’s sprint process and how they work with other stakeholders in the organization. This reduces the reliance on just the click-through rate because not every email is designed to create a click-through. She shared two tips: Meet regularly with the other teams.

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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. This reflects a more integrated approach to organizing a marketing team, as opposed to a channels-based approach. Click here to see the full results.