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Email is the top area where marketers are increasing their budgets. Some 62% of US B2B and B2C marketers had increased their email marketing campaign in the past 12 months, according to April 2023 data from SeQuel Response and ISG. But recent email updates from Apple and Gmail add new challenges to email marketing, especially for B2B marketer.

A reduced focus on security at Twitter exposed 200 million 耻蝉别谤蝉鈥� email addresses leaked by hackers. Amazon鈥檚 and Alphabet鈥檚 aggressive expansion during the pandemic has now led to sudden contraction, with both companies distancing themselves from moonshot projects and broader consumer electronics ambitions.

Forcing users to surrender their email addresses to view content, or tricking them into a certain kind of data collection using a dark-patterned consent management platform, will cost publishers in the long term.

There is a growing number of user-friendly platforms requiring minimal technical expertise. AI tools like Jasper are designed with marketers in mind. They provide intuitive interfaces where users can receive content drafts in minutes. These tools often include templates for content such as blog posts, social media updates, and email copy.

The news: Apple blocked the email app BlueMail developed by Blix due to new ChatGPT features. The app uses OpenAI鈥檚 chatbot to help make automated email writing sound more natural based on 耻蝉别谤蝉鈥� previous emails and calendar events, per The Wall Street Journal.

They can do this by optimizing their customer acquisition, user experience (UX), and loyalty strategies. This deck aims to help solution providers approach retailers and brands with data-rich pitch slides, compelling content marketing assets, and thoughtful prospecting emails that highlight the mobile commerce opportunity. Specifically, it will:. Size the opportunity in mobile commerce.

Security incident breaks Rackspace hosted email: Loss of access to emails exposes the fragility of relying on cloud providers to handle and protect businesses data. Backspace鈥檚 failure could cost customers millions.

Ransomware resulted in massive email outage: Rackspace blames a ransomware attack for shutting off its hosted exchange hosting service. An SEC filing anticipating lost revenue could signal loss of customer data.

Because deterministic data is based on customer information like email addresses, phone numbers, user names, or credit card numbers, it enables marketers to more accurately target their efforts. On the other hand, probabilistic data, usually based on web browsing and other digital behaviors, is more scalable, providing a more holistic view of an audience.

By streamlining workflows with integrated genAI, Dia targets professionals and power users, but its success depends on pulling users away from entrenched defaults.

So far, returning Fastlane users have a nearly 80% conversion rate, compared with the industry average of 50% for guest checkout. Paze also recently became available at major US banks. The wallet identifies consumers by the email address they use with their bank and their bank-enrolled phone number.

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Its genAI tool fails to meet user expectations, with internal teams and customers frustrated by limited functionality and concerns over rushed development.

New features let users join conversations with AI hosts. Experimental yet groundbreaking, it promises tailored podcasts but risks monotony with limited host variety.

We expect PayPal to have 217.3 million core users worldwide in 2025.

Why it matters: Feature innovation can help Google Wallet better compete against鈥攐r in this case, catch up to鈥擜pple Wallet, which boasts a clear lead in terms of mobile wallet users. We forecast US Google Wallet users will total 50.94 million this year, accounting for almost 30% of all mobile wallet users.

The news: Read AI unveiled Search Copilot, an AI-powered search engine designed to unify information from meetings, emails, chats, cloud storage, and CRM platforms. Unlike existing solutions, the company says its Search Copilot provides seamless cross-platform data retrieval with instant setup, making it accessible to individuals and businesses alike.

Industry impact: Features like AI email auto-summaries could affect businesses and marketers relying on email campaigns to reach customers, effectively making Apple a gatekeeper of 耻蝉别谤蝉鈥� communications. This could mean marketers will need to find creative ways to make their campaigns stand out so the AI surfaces them or risk losing relevance.

Industry KPIs show how email compares to SMS

Over 31 million user records are compromised, exposing the widespread vulnerability of online platforms in an era of escalating cyber threats

That speaks to 耻蝉别谤蝉鈥� growing trust in genAI to offer relevant and useful information. Fifty-eight percent of consumers say that genAI tools like ChatGPT have replaced search engines as their go-to source for product and service recommendations, according to a Capgemini survey.

We trialed ChatGPT and Spiral, a tool by Every Inc. that lets users train a system on its writing styles and copy templates to quickly generate messaging. We ended up using Spiral due to ChatGPT鈥檚 quality and hallucination issues. Key steps that 蘑菇AV took included:. Training Spiral on its copywriting templates, using past examples of campaign email, ad, and social copy.

If your business uses both online and offline channels, select a platform that seamlessly integrates these data points and provides a unified view of customer behavior across in-store, call center, email, social media, and website interactions. Integration capabilities.