Email Marketing RulesEmail Privacy ‘Regulation’ in the Age of Big Tech
Imagine if CASL was passed without first having a public comment period so businesses and other organizations could have their voices heard? Imagine if GDPR went into effect 3 months after it was passed instead of after a 2-year transition period? Imagine if CCPA applied to people all over the world and…
Holiday Marketing Quarterly: Fourth Quarter 2021 Checklist
Oracle’s Holiday Marketing Quarterly gives B2C brands a quarter-by-quarter checklist for how to achieve more during the critical holiday season with their email marketing and other digital marketing channels. Along with guidance on planning, strategy, and prioritization, you’ll get advice and tips from some of Oracle Marketing Consulting’s more than 500 digital…
Hide My Email Elevates Risks of Temporary Email Addresses
Email marketing is a great way to build long-term relationships, but marketers have always wrestled with accepting low-value email addresses from would-be subscribers. B2C brands wonder if a subscriber has provided their primary email account or a secondary address they check far less frequently. And B2B marketers debate accepting freemail addresses or…
Apple’s MPP May Drive Email Design Changes that Actually Hurt Customer Engagement
Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection will have a broad range of effects on email marketers, impacting email analytics, design, deliverability, personalization, and optimization efforts. Sadly, subscribers who enable MPP will receive less relevant emails and more emails than they would have otherwise gotten if marketers could better measure their engagement through opens. I…
Dyspatch: Modular Email Design – A System Built for Speed and Scale
Modular email design is on the rise. In this post by Terri Reid of Dyspatch, she talks about what modular email design is, what its benefits are, what it looks like in action, and much more. Here at Oracle Marketing Consulting, we’re big fans of modular email architecture, so I was happy…
The Last Word on August 2021
A roundup of email marketing articles, posts, and tweets you might have missed last month… Must-read articles, posts & reports What Are Stores Even Thinking With All These Emails? (The Atlantic) The Conscientious Marketer: Don’t Send Emails to People Who Have Unsubscribed (MediaPost) How the Pandemic Has Changed Marketing (MarketingProfs) Why Does…
Email Marketing’s Increasing Role as Third-Party Cookies Disappear
While some think that Google giving marketers two more years to prepare for the depreciation of third-party cookies will lead to complacency, I hope that brands maintain the momentum of recent months. Without a doubt, this change across the entire online advertising industry is causing a major shift in digital advertising targeting…
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Chad S. White
Head of Research
Oracle Digital Experience Agency
Author of Email Marketing Rules and nearly 4,000 articles about digital and email marketing
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