Appendix CUseful Statistics

Please note that email metrics change frequently. This appendix is meant to be a general guide and should not be used for definitive benchmarks.

Image Click-Through, Open, and Delivery Rates. Source: Bronto, March 2008.

Click-through rate—4.4% overall

Open rate—18.4%

Delivery rate—98.7%

Image Email has reached almost universal penetration, with 97% of consumers and 94% of marketers using the channel. Source: Forrester Research, 2007.

 87% of consumers' online time is spent reading their emails. Source: David Daniels, vice ...

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