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Martech: Marketing

Adobe adds enhancements to boost the venerable channel of email

With its new features, data from its latest consumer survey and previewed research, Adobe shows that email is very much alive and kicking.

Barry Levine on August 21, 2018 at 10:00 am
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From Adobe's 2018 Consumer Email Study

From Adobe’s 2018 Consumer Email Study

Adobe is announcing or previewing several new email features today, as its fourth annual Consumer Email Study shows some movement in consumer attitudes toward digital marketing’s oldest channel.

The survey, also unveiled today, indicates that email is starting to receive some competition from new channels like chatbots or smartwatches as consumers’ preferred communication method for receiving brand offers. While almost 50 percent still prefer offers via email, that’s about 18 percent less than last year’s survey.

And, although email has been the most popular form of workplace communication in the previous three surveys, for the first time this year, email and face-to-face conversations are tied at 31 percent.

Adobe Campaign Product Marketing Manager Matt Rawding told me that email’s drop appears to be tied to the rising popularity of other forms of workplace communication, like video calls.

But email remains strong as a marketing and communications tool, and Adobe is today unveiling several enhancements on its platform to boost that channel’s efficiency.

There is a new email message designer with a drag-and-drop interface. Rawding noted that new email templates were introduced last year, and marketers previously were able to drag-and-drop some small components. But now, he said, dragging and dropping works with images, text blocks, structures like columns, footers and more, allowing a marketer to build a template from scratch. Here’s a screen from the designer:

Adobe also says that it is now offering faster and more effective delivery of emails because it can incorporate real-time feedback from ISPs on bounce rates and other factors to immediately modify an email campaign’s tactics.

And profile attributes can now be combined with campaign stats for segmenting audiences in email campaigns.

Adobe is also previewing a few not-yet-released capabilities being developed in its labs. One such feature provides the automated ability to email an individual at the most effective time within an email campaign. Previously, email send times could only be tailored to reach large groups at the most effective times.

Also in development is a new, automatically generated engagement score that measures an individual’s reactions to emails by opening, by clicking on links or by other actions. Through utilization of this score, if it is released, a marketer might be able to better target individuals with incentives based on their engagement patterns.



About The Author

Barry Levine
Barry Levine covers marketing technology for Third Door Media. Previously, he covered this space as a Senior Writer for VentureBeat, and he has written about these and other tech subjects for such publications as CMSWire and NewsFactor. He founded and led the web site/unit at PBS station Thirteen/WNET; worked as an online Senior Producer/writer for Viacom; created a successful interactive game, PLAY IT BY EAR: The First CD Game; founded and led an independent film showcase, CENTER SCREEN, based at Harvard and M.I.T.; and served over five years as a consultant to the M.I.T. Media Lab. You can find him at LinkedIn, and on Twitter at xBarryLevine.

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