With an increase in email campaigns and usage around the globe, it’s important to know whether you’re doing it right – or if you’re just wasting your budget. Here are some email marketing statistics to help you out.
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Let’s get right to the facts.
1. Global email users amounted to 3.9 billion users in 2019.
2. 93% of B2B marketers use email to distribute content.
3. 80% of business professionals believe that email marketing increases customer retention.
4. 59% of marketers say email is their biggest source of ROI.
5. 75% of marketers are using at least one type of marketing automation tool.
6. In 2019, 293.6 billion emails were sent DAILY.
7. Nearly 87% of marketers use email marketing to distribute their content.
8. 81% of small and midsize businesses rely on email as their primary customer acquisition channel.
9. 46% of email opens happen on mobile devices.
10. 35% of business professionals use a mobile device to check their emails.
11. 83% of B2B companies use e-newsletters in their content marketing strategy.
12. Welcome emails have an 50% average open rate.
13. In the US, 59.7% of email openers read emails while 21.7% just skim them.
14. 90% of content marketers say email engagement is the primary metric they use to measure content performance.
15. The average ROI for email marketing is 4200%. That’s $42 for every $1 spent.
16. If email users don’t know the email senders, about 43% of users will label them as spam.
17. About 59% of customers say marketing emails influence their purchase decisions.
18. Emails rank as the third most influential source of information for B2B audiences.
19. The average email open rate is 20.81%.
20. Transactional emails have an average Click-Through-Rate (CTR) of just 4.8%.
Sources: Statista, HubSpot, Social Media Today, Content Marketing Institute, Emarsys, Litmus, Convince & Convert, Campaign Monitor, DMA, SaleCycle, WordStream
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