There is a certain creep factor here. If Alexa is reading your emails, that means Amazon is, too.

Welcome to BFCM, as the Black Friday weekend is known. Brands did well, and are looking forward to New Year's Day, research shows.

National Coffee Day outperformed all other events in Q3 with a CTO of 23.9%, while Black Friday in July did better than National Dog Day, Yes Marketing reports.

A survey by Retail Touchpoints points to the wide use of email in acquisition.

IT Governance finds a high level of understanding -- less than 1% ask "What is a privacy notice?" Yet only a minority are fully compliant.

Urbandoor, a firm that is looking to automate business travel, has selected Dyspatch as its content management system.

Ladders links recruiters with big-ticket talent. But it also serves news and information through email newsletters. SendGrid is its email provider.

Marriott is facing probes, class action lawsuits and damaging publicity.

Cheetah Digital reports that 45% of total email opens and 58% of clicks occurred on mobile devices in third-quarter 2018.

"Top," "first" and "deal" were among the leading words on both days. Personalization worked best, and so did shorter subject lines, Sailthru reports.