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Email Marketing Benchmarks : Why Open Rate Lies
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EMAIL MARKETING BENCHMARKS ARE LYING TO YOU : WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS IN 2026
Every year, a dozen platforms publish the same email benchmark report - here's the average open rate, here's the average click rate, here's how you stack up. Marketers screenshot the numbers, compare their open rate to the industry average and feel good or bad accordingly.
Here's the uncomfortable truth for 2026. Your open rate is one of the least trustworthy numbers in your entire marketing stack and building strategy around it is a great way to optimize something that doesn't move revenue. Let me explain why — and what to measure instead.
Topics: Email Marketing Wicked Reports revenue per recipient email attribution email benchmarks
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When Is the Best Time to Send Your Emails?
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When Is the Best Time to Send Your Emails?
Search "the best time to send emails" and you will find a hundred articles giving you the same answer: Tuesday at 10am, or maybe Thursday afternoon, based on some giant industry study. Here is the problem with all of them. That advice is an average of millions of other companies' audiences, and your customers are not the average. The genuinely best time to send your emails is not a number from a benchmark report. It is the time your specific customers actually buy. Here is why that matters, and how to find it.