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…
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…
Email Marketing Trends for 2025: Competitive Differentiators
Email marketing is constantly evolving, so it can be difficult to know where to invest your time and energy from year to year. Just a few of the recent changes and challenges that email marketers have faced include: Economic uncertainty caused by global trade disruptions, high inflation, and high interest rates Changes…
Marketing, Demystified podcast: The Future of Email Marketing
Email marketing is undergoing massive changes, from AI to inbox changes to new branding options in the inbox. I join Marketing, Demystified podcast host Jenn Mancusi to discuss these changes and how marketers can adapt. During the 55-minute episode, we talk about: 3:37 – How generative AI is transforming email marketing and…
A Year of Campaign Subject Lines: Inspiration from 2024
A catchy, yet descriptive subject line for your email or title for your SMS or push message can give your campaign a sizable boost. One way to stand out and be more relevant is to have a hook that’s connected to a holiday, season, or occasion—like the nearly 1,000 we highlight in…
Email Marketing Developments in 2024 & Their Ripple Effects in 2025
While there will undoubtedly be new out-of-the-blue developments that shake the email marketing industry in 2025, marketers already have to contend with a slew of developments that took root in 2024 and will become more of a force in the year ahead. Let’s look at what some of those developments are. >>…
AI Summaries for Email: Design Impacts on Marketers
Like so many application providers, email inbox providers are integrating generative AI into their inbox apps, or allowing GenAI tools to work on top of them. One of the primary uses is to provide summaries of emails. To better understand how these tools are summarizing email content today, Oracle Digital Experience Agency…
How to Leverage Email Marketing During the 2024 Holiday Season
The holiday season is the most critical time of the year for most B2C brands and is the most impactful time of the year for email marketing. Even with substantially higher email frequencies, revenue per email spikes during the holiday season. To help you get more out of your email marketing efforts…
Differentiate Your Messages with These Email From Name Extension Strategies
Your email from name or sender name is like the logo on your storefront. You’d never lightly change your brand name. You want to be instantly recognizable, whether it’s from the curb or in the inbox. You also want to fully leverage all the investments you’ve made in your brand—which your brand…
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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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