Email delivery rate

Hello,

Have you noticed lately any problem or lower open rate with your email campaign? Mine are significaly lower. Is there anything to fix or do?

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  • Derek Martin
    Derek Martin Blackbaud Employee
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    Hi Isabelle,

    I'm curious, over what time frame have you observed a decline in your organization's open rate?

    You may recall that last autumn, Apple made a change to the iOS and Mac Mail clients that stopped reporting email opens to email marketers, and I think it's safe to say that many organizations saw a decline in open rate then.

    Other vendors had already stopped reporting opens to email marketers, and with Apple joining in, it's no longer a certainty that if the system is reporting that a specific constituent has not opened an email that they really didn't open that email.

    That said, if you saw a marked decline in your open rate from January to February, or February to March, I would investigate if there's something that caused that dip.

    Derek

  • We've actually seen inflated open rates in direct correlation to the Apple IOS changes Derek mentions. We are currently not reporting on open rates because of these changes.

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