The Wall Street Journal
Not every rival cares about Hillary Clinton's email scandal. In Tuesday night's Democratic debate, Clinton competitor Bernie Sanders said that, "The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails," which was met with applause. The comment comes as the RNC has launched a campaign targeting Clinton and her use of a private email server.
SC Magazine
Schwab Retirement Plan Services (SRPS) has notified 9,400 plan participants that a spreadsheet with their personal data was inadvertently sent to a customer in another retirement plan serviced by SRPS via email. The document includes: names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, employment statuses, division codes, marital statuses, and account balances.
Marketing Land
Global email marketing delivery rates are declining. In 2015 79 percent of legitimate emails landed in the inbox, down from 83 percent in 2014, according to a new report from Return Path. The company analyzed 357 million marketing emails sent by brands to subscribers and more than 150 mailbox providers from North America, South America, Europe and the Asia Pacific regions. The research revealed that delivery rates are even lower in the U.S. with only 76 percent of emails landing in the inbox.
Forbes
Twitter fired 336 employees this week, one of whom discovered that he was fired when he was locked out of his email account. Former software engineer Bart Teeuwisse (@bartt) tweeted a screenshot of this email lock out. It was several hours later that Teeuwisse got a phone call with the news.
CNN.com
The White House has taken back President Barack Obama's comments that Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server wasn't a national security threat. In an interview on CBS' 60 Minutes Obama said, "I don't think it posed a national security problem." But the White House press secretary has clarified that this was said, "based on what we publicly know now." The FBI is still investigating the issue.
The Mirror UK
The Mirror has reported on a new crop of spam emails that claim to come from iTunes. These malicious emails contain the subject line, "iTunes Account Suspension Billing Information," and try to get recipients to click to a link to update their credit card information. The email claims to come from Apple's customer support team but really comes from spammers.
The Washington Times
The Republican National Committee is targeting Hillary Clinton's email scandal in a new ad. The ad, which launched on cable TV and online on Monday, features a clip of Clinton denying ever using email for confidential information and then cuts to news reports to the contrary. The ad launches in advance of the Democratic debate tonight.
Venture Beat
Email marketing services firm Boomtrain has raised $12 million from Sierra Ventures, Cota Capital, and Lerer Ventures. The company helps businesses send customized emails and app notifications to customers. The company will use the funding to hire new engineers in order to expand beyond email, mobile and the web.
Internet Retailer
Facebook has rolled out a new advertising product to help retailers build email marketing lists. Rather than making consumers fill out an email signup form, the ad format allows Facebook users to automatically enroll in email marketing programs in a matter of two clicks. The customer that clicks on the lead ad will see a signup form that is automatically populated with their contact information. The consumer can edit or accept the form. This data can then be integrated in real time with the brand's customer relationship management systems.
Direct Marketing News
More than 73 percent of marketers have issues with email deliverability, according to a new report from Experian. The 2015 Email Data Quality Trends Report revealed that deliverability issues lead to a slew of problems. In fact, forty-one percent of marketers report that the problem prevents them from communicating with subscribers, 24 percent report that it leads to bad customer service and 15 percent say it less to lost revenue.