Email Marketing RulesSubject Line Writing: 6 Trends that Are Driving Strategy Changes
Have your subject line writing strategies and tactics kept up with the times? Check and see if you’re accounting for these six changes in subject line writing: 1. Subject lines need to stand on their own. 2. Supplement your subject lines with solid preview text. 3. Subject lines should show contextuality, when…
The Unintended Consequences of Inbox Providers Ignoring Email Marketers
It’s not that inbox providers sit between brands and their subscribers, but rather that brands need to satisfy both their subscribers and inbox providers. Just like brands have their own goals and desires, so do subscribers and so do inbox providers. For example, subscribers want content that’s valuable to them, doesn’t arrive…
AI’s Impact on Digital Marketing Jobs: The Highest ROI Opportunity
Many headline-grabbing predictions have been made about the potential impact of AI on jobs. One of the first warnings was from Goldman Sachs, which predicted that “roughly two-thirds of current jobs are exposed to some degree of AI automation, and that generative AI could substitute up to one-fourth of current work.” More…
Critical Apple Mail Changes & When They’ll Impact Marketers
Apple’s iOS 18 update includes the most impactful changes to Apple Mail since their 2021 rollout of Mail Privacy Protection. However, the adoption of these features are on two very distinct and separate timelines. The timeline for Apple Mail app changes will be fairly quick, while the timeline for Apple Intelligence and…
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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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