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For marketers, no time is more crucial than the holiday season to connect with consumers through personalized offers and messages. This year, personalization is more powerful than ever, with Optimove Insights data showing a 227 percent increase in email engagement due to tailored content. A remarkable 36 percent of consumers say they open marketing emails…

This holiday shopping season promises to be another marathon for e-commerce brands, filled with the expected twists and turns that a three-month shopping period brings. Although, while an extended shopping period might sound like good news for e-commerce brands wanting to capitalize on the season, one already prominent thorn in the side threatens to dampen…

Over the years, we’ve guided brands with A/B testing initiatives that help drive growth and insights, educating and empowering our clients along the way. A/B testing is an email marketing initiative that can have profound long-term impact but is widely misunderstood. Let’s identify and correct the most persistent misconceptions about A/B testing in email campaigns.…

Brands are expected to spend $247 billion on social media marketing in 2024 to fight for consumers’ attention. With people spending more than two hours a day on social media, brands would be foolish not to spend their ad dollars on social platforms, right? According to recent data, brands may have it all wrong. For…

Most of the conversations I have with retailers these days are about strategies to improve the performance of their tried-and-true triggered marketing campaigns — e.g., abandon browse, search and product campaigns. Retailers are aware that having triggers for shoppers who abandoned their cart, abandoned a search or browse is now pretty commonplace, and so the…

For e-commerce brands, it’s not the year of the dragon, it’s the year of the back-in-stock message. Automated back-in-stock message sends have been on a multiyear rise. In 2023, brands sent 4x as many as the year before, generating 3x the number of orders than the year before. Back-in-stock messages perform exceptionally well compared to…

2023 was another record-setting year for e-commerce sales and the growth is expected to continue in 2024. How companies achieve their growth will depend on how effective they are with engaging their audience via different channels and subsequently maximizing the return on investment of those channels. In all of this, one thing remains consistent year…

Do you know how many emails are sent every day around the world? I ask people that all the time and I get some surprising answers. I’ve heard 10 million, 100 million and up to a billion. The answer is that in 2024, people around the world will send 350 billion emails every day. You…

With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, it’s a good time to assess how different marketing channels performed through another record-setting BFCM shopping period and what this can tell us about consumers’ shopping habits in 2024. Looking at Omnisend’s recently released BFCM marketing report, which analyzed over 2.5 billion marketing emails, 29 million SMS,…

So little time to activate, so much at stake — that's what email marketers scrambling to optimize their campaigns are facing now, in the teeth of Q4. The common denominator in any optimizations that will move the needle at this point is artificial intelligence. Don’t try to boil the ocean; lock in on a select…