Email marketers have spent years following the same advice: use power words, personalize subject lines, avoid ALL CAPS, and keep punctuation to a minimum. A new study suggests some of those rules may be hurting performance instead of helping it. Researchers at the University of Helsinki analyzed 31,812 marketing email…
Why is email marketing like being in a long-term relationship? Because when you ask your partner how they’re feeling, and they respond, “Fine,” you know that doesn’t always mean things are good. In the same vein, AI can produce campaigns that look fine. But on closer inspection, you might find…
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Many marketers make the mistake of treating AI as a strategy. It’s not. AI is a tool, an accelerator, and, in some cases, a useful assistant. It can help you work faster, support ideation, and summarize data. AI tools can draft campaign copy, suggest subject lines, generate content variations, and…
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Consumers are giving mixed signals about AI content in marketing. People like ads and content that feel useful and relevant, but many are still turned off by marketing that comes across as robotic, emotionally empty, or a little too invasive. Seventy percent of consumers said they can usually spot an…
Intuit’s announcement this week that it will cut approximately 3,000 jobs — 17% of its global workforce — landed hard across the tech industry. But for the 11 million businesses that use Mailchimp for email marketing, the real question is simpler: Should I stay or should I go? The answer,…
In agentic commerce, brand shifts from a perception advantage to a verifiable advantage. Customers may still choose brands based on emotion or identity, but their AI agents will evaluate those brands using measurable signals such as price transparency, fulfillment reliability, reviews, loyalty value, privacy practices, and service history. This changes…
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I had the chance to participate in the first MarTech Vibe Marketing Lab as part of the Spring 2026 MarTech conference. Instead of panels or presentations, the event focused on hands-on collaboration. Small teams had limited time to create a marketing tool for Harlem Grown, a nonprofit dedicated to urban…
You’re about to launch a campaign. The creative is done, the emails are built and everything is scheduled. Now you’re ready to pull the list. You give it a scan and notice all the data hygiene issues. The name field is full of inconsistencies like “Hi JOHN” or “Hi ,Mary…
The latest innovation can shape how you evaluate email platforms, but it isn’t enough on its own to determine what will actually work for your business. That’s part of the challenge when making platform decisions. Innovation can force you to reassess how you evaluate and choose technology to avoid heading…
Email does a lot more work than it usually gets credit for. In Sinch Mailgun’s latest Email Impact Report, 78% of respondents say email is either “very” or “extremely” important to their organization’s success, which tells you pretty quickly that this is still a core business channel. The problem is…