• Brooklyn Data Scientist Traces Source of Unwanted Email
    Brooklyn-based data scientist Fred Benenson was surprised to get a follow up email from Sears after browsing their site, despite not having signed up for their email list. Instead of deleting the email, he traced the source and found that direct marketing agency Criteo had been hired by Sears to pull his email from a partner database. Benenson could not figure out which company had sold his email address, but he suspects that whoever it was had dropped a Criteo cookie in his browser and in turn gave his data to Criteo.
  • Travel Industry Emails See Average 20.5% Open Rate
    Emails sent by the travel industry see an average open rate of 20.5% and a 2.3% average click-through rate, according to Mailchimp. The data includes email campaigns sent to 1,000 subscribers or more sent through Aug. 1, 2016.
  • 73% of Millennials Prefer Email For Brand Communications
    Seventy-three percent of millennials prefer email as a way for brands to contact them, according to research from Venture Beat. The company predicts that this demographic will have $200 billion in spending power by next year and that this demographic will influence email marketing. At the same time, the research revealed that email marketers have work to do: only 50 percent of email marketers think their needs are effectively met by current providers and 78 percent of marketers report issues with list growth.
  • Rare Used Social to Build Email List
    Rare, an online site that publishes viral videos, news articles, and opinion pieces, found that email was the key to cultivating its audience on social media. The company launched an email signup sheet within its Facebook page. The two channels have worked in concert and the site has increased its readership from 25 million monthly viewers to 400 million monthly viewers.
  • Amazon Emails US Sellers in Chinese
    Amazon has sent out a number of emails to U.S.-based sellers in Chinese. All of the sellers that reported getting the emails had accounts that had been suspended but were instructing them that they could begin selling again. The company did not comment on whether or not the emails were sent by mistake.
  • WhatsApp Connecting With Facebook For Ads
    WhatsApp has plans to coordinate more with its parent company Facebook to make it easier for companies to deliver ads to its users. The company plans to roll out these plans without exposing users to third-party banner ads and spam. The company plans to test these options over the next few months.
  • Gowdy Says Clinton Wiped Servers Clean
    Trey Gowdy, The House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman, says that Hillary Clinton used software to wipe her servers clean, before turning the data over to authorities. Gowdy (R-S.C.) asserts that she used BleachBit, a tool that aims to make file recovery impossible.
  • SwiftKey Update Fixes Email, Phone Number Issue
    Mobile prediction app SwiftKey has released a new update after being hit with a bug that was causing users to see other users' information. For instance, the app would suggest email addresses and phone numbers to users that had never entered that data. Developers have responded by stopping all synchronization in the app and roll out a fix that addresses this issue.
  • eUKhost Debuts Email Inbox Service For Businesses
    eUKhost has released a new email service that allows businesses to create email addresses for their business domains. These inboxes are accessible across browsers and devices and feature virus protection and anti-spam filters. The hosting company also offers server blacklist checks, email backups and email archiving.
  • State Department Must Turn Over All Clinton Emails Related to Benghazi
    The State Department has been ordered to release any emails sent between Hillary Clinton and the White House from the week of the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, by September 13th. The judge's order came after the FBI recovered a disc with almost 15,000 emails on it that was not present during their previous inquiry.
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