Wednesday, December 15 2004 at 16:00 EET

Internet marketing business DoubleClick printed its final report more than the bulk email marketing evolution this year. The figures display year-more than-year increase in delivery prices (cleaner emailing lists), and a reduce in open prices and click-via prices. The versions are light, proving a constant and maturing environment.

DoubleClick’s metrics

The information analyzed were primarily based on more than two billion messages sent by hundreds DARTmail customers, measuring bouncebacks, open prices, click-throughs and conversions (open to product sales, or click to product sales ratio). The results were noted for 2004 and compared to 2003.

DoubleClick used unweighted averages for all analyzed categories. This helps eliminating the impact that big email marketers could have more than category averages, as the report states.

The email marketing categories regarded as in the research were:

• Business Items &#038 Services
• Consumer Items
• Consumer Services
• Financial Services
• Travel
• Retail&#038Catalog
• Publisher – Business
• Publisher – Consumer

E-mail marketing performances

The bounce prices display a slight decline general, and a more constant decline in the Travel category, down 54.5% from 14.three% to six.5%.

Business Publishers was the only category that elevated open prices, however somewhat, from 38.two to 38.three. For other categories, open prices declined. The open rates’ decline in most categories is possibly owed to SPAM increase and reveals people’s reticence to open messages they are not extremely interested in.

Click via prices elevated in only two categories, Consumer Publisher and Travel.

More interestingly, email-productivity has shown much better figures in number of orders per email sent: .28% in 2004 but the average income per email sent declined 26.9 percent. The average email order all through 2004 was $89, in a year-more than-year declining trend.

Conclusion

About the general productivity of bulk email marketing the report concludes: “email marketing is a maturing and relatively stable marketing tool. Enhancements in checklist hygiene and deal with assortment processes seem to have enhanced bounce prices, but flagging response prices recommend subscriber files are starting to mature.”

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