Email Deliverability

DKIM Oversigning to Help Avoid Replay Attacks

May. 9, 2022 / By Harold Vass

SparkPost Cloud now performs DKIM Oversigning by default to eliminate an attack vector for the billion+ emails our platform enables each day.  DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is a common email authentication method designed to reduce the opportunities for phishing attacks and email spam. Combined with other common authentication mechanisms, the chances that your sending domains

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Part 3: Nine Deliverability Tips for Email Marketers

Mar. 10, 2022 / By Co Authors

Welcome to the third and final post in our series of nine email marketing tips for better deliverability – make sure your messages land in the inbox. If you missed either of our first posts, make sure to check them out before diving into today’s tips: Part 1 | Part 2 7) Utilize a preference

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Part 2: Nine Deliverability Tips for Email Marketers

Mar. 3, 2022 / By Co Authors

In our last post, we broke down the first of nine deliverability tips email marketers need to make sure messages land in the inbox. We started with a clear signup/opt-in process, a welcome message/series, and an important look at the difference between delivery and deliverability. Today we’ll break down the next three email deliverability tips

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Part 1: Nine Deliverability Tips for Email Marketers

Mar. 1, 2022 / By Co Authors

To maximize your email investment, you need high deliverability. But getting there can feel like a major challenge. The truth is, you can get there and our team of deliverability strategists are here to help. We’ve compiled this series of deliverability tips for email marketers and today we’ll break down the first three of our nine

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2022 Email Benchmarks, Trends & Geeky Behaviors

Jan. 19, 2022 / By Koertni Adams

Check out the top 2022 email benchmarks in this new, comprehensive report Email is hard. And effective. And fun! Basically, email rules. 👑 Our new report, Email in 2022, includes almost 50 pages all about why email rules – it turns out we had a lot to say. The report is broken out into three

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A Deeper Look at SparkPost’s Deliverability Analytics Blocklist Impact Feature

Nov. 17, 2021 / By Tim Roy

One of the most innovative components of Sparkpost’s Deliverability Analytics is the Blocklist Impact feature. Even the healthiest sender occasionally ends up on a blocklist. This can create a lot of confusion since it’s often not clear which mailbox providers are using which blocklist and what is the resulting impact on deliverability and inbox placement.

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SparkPost Launches Automatic Seeding in Inbox Tracker for Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Nov. 1, 2021 / By Steve McElroy

Automatic seeding is now available in Salesforce’s Email Studio & Automation Studio to drive improved deliverability.  The next phase of our partnership with Salesforce Marketing Cloud is here – and if you’re an email marketer with too much to do and not enough time, it’s going to be a game-changer.  Automatic seeding enables marketers and

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We Want to Hear from You: SparkPost’s 2021 Global Email Marketing Practitioners Survey!

Oct. 5, 2021 / By April Mullen

Every year, we take on an exciting project of creating a state of the email industry report comprised of a lot of data. (You can still catch the current version here.) Much of that data comes from SparkPost’s permissioned panel and off the massive footprint of sending 4-5 trillion emails per year. To get a

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Accuracy of SparkPost’s Permissioned Panel Data

Aug. 26, 2021 / By George Schlossnagle

One of the questions we regularly receive about our Permissioned Email Panel is how accurate it is in terms of forecasting inbox rates. Historically, this has been a difficult question to answer with any authority as there was no source of ground truth to measure against, and so opinions (and general faith in sample statistics)

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