Email Marketing RulesEmail 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…
Apple iOS 18: The Most Important Changes for Marketers
Centered around Apple Intelligence, the updates and new product features in Apple iOS 18 offer some significant improvements for consumers, including a smarter Siri and a variety of AI tools. While most won’t have a noticeable impact on digital marketers, let’s talk about a few that will: Apple Mail inbox tabs AI…
Get Inspiration from Our Holiday Subject Line Word Cloud
As you plan your holiday promotional email campaigns, you’ll certainly want to draft subject lines for your intended campaigns. In fact, you’ll want to write multiple subject lines for each one so you can do some A/B testing. To get you inspired, we created a holiday subject line word cloud based on…
Holiday Email Subject Line Insights to Boost Your Campaign Results
Email campaign mailing frequency rises dramatically during the holiday season, putting more pressure on subject lines to quickly connect with subscribers and kick off a positive and profitable interaction. Based on an analysis of subject lines and campaign performance from a selection of retail and other B2C brands using Oracle Responsys from…
Apple & Yahoo Back 2 Worrisome Trends for Email Marketers
Marketers have reasons to be concerned by the upcoming inbox changes that were announced by Apple on June 10 and Yahoo on June 11. Those changes entail Apple adding tabs to Apple Mail, and both Apple and Yahoo adding AI-generated summaries to emails. Let’s talk in more detail about each and what…
What Email Marketers Should Be Upset About
There’s no shortage of things in email marketing to be irritated about. The lack of email coding standards, the inconsistent email rendering, the partial support for CSS-based interactivity, the partial support of AMP for email, inconsistent implementations of dark mode, how expensive BIMI VMCs are,… Marketers have also been perpetually frustrated by…
Email Annotations & Schema: ‘Automatic Extraction’ & Controlling Your Preview Content
To help users get answers quickly, search engine providers display Featured Snippets and other summaries that increase the chance a user won’t actually have to click any of the search results. Google and Yahoo are extending this same philosophy to their email inbox services by occasionally adding previews to commercial emails. Gmail…
Welcome! Email Marketing Rules is your guide to understanding the best practices of this complex, often misunderstood channel as you craft the best executions for your brand. Every week, we’ll explore strategies and tactics, discuss tips and inspiration, and dig into industry news and trends.
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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