Almost half of British shoppers unsubscribed from marketing emails

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Against a backdrop of economic uncertainty, inflation, rising customer acquisition costs and growing data regulations, Airship, the mobile app experience company, today at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity announced a new global report, “The Mobile Consumer 2023.” The research helps brands better understand evolving consumer preferences, behaviours, and expectations in order to accelerate value creation. 

Based on a survey of more than 11,000...

10 July 2023 | Customer Experience

More than two-thirds of consumers being sent irrelevant messages by retail brands

With the high street reporting negative sales for the first time in more than two years, it’s clear that retailers are continuing to face a challenging and competitive environment.

Yet, at a time when positive and personalised experiences are more critical than ever, new findings reveal many retailers are not meeting the mark, with over two-thirds (69%) of consumers reporting that they receive irrelevant messages from brands and 41% saying they do not feel valued when it comes...

3 July 2023 | Best Practice

Less than half of consumers can spot an AI-generated email

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Consumers are having difficulty spotting the dfference between emails written by humans and those constructed by AI.

This is according to a recent survey into AI brand communications, commmissioned by email marketing specialist Instiller, following the exponential growth of AI-language tools like ChatGPT.

The company wanted to know if AI-generated marketing is actually undetectable, and the results are telling.

After asking a panel of consumers to identify...

9 June 2023 | Email marketing

GetResponse introduces AI Email Generator powered by OpenAI’s GPT tech

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Email marketing solution GetResponse, said to be one of the market's early adopters of OpenAI's GPT technology, has announced the enhancement of its AI/ML capabilities with the launch of its AI Email Generator.

The solution aims to help marketers and business owners drastically reduce the time it takes to create their emails and deliver more relevant, engaging content to their subscribers.

Users enter key details about their email (such as the intent, occasion, and...

27 April 2023 | Automation

Retailers feel there are too many channels to effectively sell through

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Online shopping has never been more convenient for consumers, who have access to a plethora of channels through which to engage with their favourite brands.

However, this same variety is confounding retailers, with 47% saying there are simply too many channels for them to effectively deliver the best sales experience.

This is according to Wunderman Thompson Commerce & Technology’s “Brands don’t fail... eRetail!” report, which found nearly all (94%) retail...

19 April 2023 | Content Marketing

21% of consumers never want to hear from retailers

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Just 16% of UK consumers think that retailers react to their feedback, despite 69% of businesses claiming to do so.

This is according to new data released by Emarsys, an SAP company. The company's research, which surveyed both consumers and retailers across the UK, highlights the struggle to keep up with customers and identifies a number of disconnects between the two. It found that 28% of UK consumers believe their feedback is being used purely for marketing purposes rather than...

19 January 2023 | Advertising

Email remains number one marketing channel for business leads

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Email is still the top marketing channel when it comes to new business prospecting ­– as revealed by Sopro’s new whitepaper The State of Prospecting 2023.

The annual whitepaper, now in its second year, revealed that 59% of marketers believe that email is over twice as effective at generating leads than channels such as PPC and paid social media, despite some marketers focussing spend in those channels. 

When it comes to new business, most...

9 January 2023 | Email marketing

How Amplifon achieved an ROI of £1 to £3 on direct mail campaigns

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With more than 70 years’ experience and a network of more than 9,500 highly qualified hearing specialists, Amplifon is a leading hearing care provider.

The problem:

Having previously used Partially Addressed Mail to some success, Amplifon was keen to develop a more personalised Direct Mail acquisition strategy to identify the best prospects for their cutting-edge hearing products.

The solution:

Using existing customer data, REaD Group built a...

9 November 2022 | Case Studies

The power of competitive email intelligence

Since the beginning of commerce, organisations have needed and sought out information about their competitors. Decades before any kind of digital marketing, competitors were buying and deconstructing one another’s products, collecting and analysing their print and broadcast advertising, subscribing to their direct mail, shopping in their stores, and polling their customers.

If understanding your customers is a central tenet of marketing management, then so is understanding your...

11 September 2022 | Email marketing

Marketers engaging better with disabled consumers but barriers remain

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83% of businesses are doing more to provide accessibility in digital marketing than in the past, demographics such as age, gender and race are more often prioritized in marketing efforts.

This is according to the 2022 Accessible Marketing Survey conducted by Capterra, an online marketplace vendor serving as an intermediary between buyers and technology vendors within the software industry.

One in four American adults live with a physical or mental disability, yet they...

1 September 2022 | Advertising Technology