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How to get your email marketing ready for iOS 18

Martech

iOS 15 and mail privacy protection To get a sense of the impact iOS 18 will have, lets look at the disruption caused by iOS 15 in 2021. Its Mail Privacy Protection pre-downloaded email images, including tracking pixels, thereby obscuring open rate data. Can users opt in or out of certain features?

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Google’s cookie pivot leaves 88% of industry in uncertainty: IAB

Martech

The move has sparked speculation about the future of privacy-focused advertising and the impact on businesses that have been preparing for a cookieless future. While almost two-thirds of respondents think Google’s change is good for the industry, 51% believe it might slow the development of privacy-protecting technologies.

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Free speech, Meta, data privacy and email: A delicate balance or a complete disconnect?

Martech

Still, it fell short of the proactive opt-in requirements mandated by the EUs 2002 e-privacy directive and the U.S. Email marketers largely embraced opt-in standards to build trust and protect the channels integrity, and the industry continued to rely on blocklists in 2025. blocklist providers. Dig deeper: U.S.

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Apple and Gmail make it harder for email campaigns to get to the inbox

Martech

The answer is yes if the update is iOS 15 (and Mail Privacy Protection, or MPP). Because iOS 15 thoroughly messed up the accuracy of open rates, Apple Mail users who opted into MPP were generally tracked as opening every email sent by brands they subscribed to. version took a significant whack out of engagement rates.

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Social Media Laws: What Are They and How Do They Impact Brands?

Contently

Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) and California’s Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) both empower users to opt out of data collection and sale, but California’s law goes further by establishing the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) to enforce these rights.

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Mail Privacy Protection and iOS 15

Blue Flame Thinking

This update pushed privacy settings back into the spotlight and required users to opt in to tracking, of which only 5% of users approve. 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.

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iOS 18.2’s email ramifications: What we know so far

Martech

Preheaders are being phased out of the “All Mail.” Open rates aren’t reliable since most impacted users have already opted into the Mail Privacy Protection in iOS 15. Dig deeper: How to get your email marketing ready for iOS 18 Email changes from iOS 18.2 The changes introduced by iOS 18.2 Transactions.