Most email opt-outs occurred on smartphones last year — at 74% versus 70% in 2018, with the remainder being done on desktops, according to an infographic released this week by OPTiZMO Technologies.
Don’t take this as a predictor of where and when opt-outs will take place: It reflects the opt-outs processed by one provider last year — and the year before. But it may serve as a snapshot of trendlines.
That said, watch out for those Yahoo! clients — they accounted for 33.9% of opt-out activity in 2019.
In contrast, Gmail generated 18%, having surpassed AOL for the number two spot. AOL pulled 11.1%, followed by Hotmail at 7.9% and Comcast with 3.5%.
Think of Monday as opt-out day — it had 16.2% of all unsubscribes. In one change YoY, Wednesday has supplanted Tuesday as the second-most active day, producing 15.4% of all opt-outs vs.15% for the day before.
Saturday pulled the lowest percentage of opt-outs — at 12.4%.
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Late morning was the most popular time for opting out — from 11 a.m. to noon. Coming in second was the period from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and third was noon to 1 p.m.
In comparison, nighthawks aren’t that active — they accounted or the lowest percentages in 2019.
As for operating systems, 52.9% of opt-outs took place on iOS, compared with 49% the year before. And 20.8% were conducted on Android, with 20.7% on Windows, 5.0% on Mac OS and 0.6% on all others.
Safari Mobile and Chrome slight declines in their opt-out rates in 2019, but still remained in the top two slots. However, less common browsers appeared more oaten than they did in 2018. The top opt-out browsers were:
And geography? North America pulled 90.3%, with Europe at 7.1%, Oceana at 1.2% and Asia at 0.05%. In addition, Central America, South America and Africa each produced 0.2%, and the Caribbean and Middle East came in at 1% apiece.
The U.S. percentage went rose 86% in 2018 to 89.2%, the remainder of the countries all pulling numbers in the low single digits.