We know that not everyone has time to read every report and guide that’s released, so to help out we thought we would give email marketers and marketers a round up of the most important stats and learning from the DMA Consumer Email Tracker Report 2020
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Consumers believe email is the best channel to receive brand marketing, preferring it almost twice as much as any other channel. 46% compared to 26% for post and 24% for text or face to face
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Most customers have two personal email addresses
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Consumers believe they receive on average 55 emails a week.
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When receiving marketing emails consumers say the most important factor in opening an email is “Recognising the brand” (55%) and then “The Subject line” (48%)
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Only 13% of people believe that over half of their marketing emails from brands are useful
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65% of consumers want to receive discounts and offers that are relevant to them
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43% consumers like to get advanced notice of new products and services & sales
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Over a third like non-transactional emails
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Of the emails they love consumers love relevancy and usefulness (36%)
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When consumers receive an interesting email – only 29% click on the email link – making attribution tricky for marketers
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When on their smartphones and consumers see something they would like to buy only 14% will buy straight away and a huge 35% will go direct to the company’s website – again having an impact on attribution
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The main reasons that consumers sign up to newsletters is for Discounts & Offers (48%), being a regular customer (43%) and joining for some form of loyalty program (40%)
