Key Insights: Email marketing the titanium of martech, global dips can’t curb strategy, and more

30-second summary:

The World Bank predicts that the global economy will see a 5.2% contraction in global GDP in 2020. This could mark the darkest recession since post-WW II.
While CFOs face the reality of revenue drops by 25%, they’re in no mood to focus on their cornflakes
 In fact, PCW’s CFO pulse survey shows that 50% of CFOs plan to accelerate automation and new ways of working
Our Pulse Survey finds that 44% of marketing leaders are maintaining their marketing budgets
42% of marketing leaders are increasing spend on marketing technology
Email marketing remains the classic favorite for brands to drive customer engagement, tap into their customers’ minds, and influence customer experience through their inboxes
Special focus on industry wise share of email marketing campaigns, region-wise email marketing stats, and the most read email content types
The best performing email message was… can you guess it?

CFOs’ take on revenues and profits
The World Bank predicts that the global economy will see a 5.2% contraction in global GDP in 2020. This could mark the darkest recession since post-WW II. As 53% of CFOs face this reality with the fact that there will be a roughly 25% decrease in revenue and profits this year, they’re in no mood to focus on their cornflakes. In fact, PCW’s CFO pulse survey shows that 50% of CFOs plan to accelerate automation and new ways of working. 

Global recession fails to dampen marketing technology budgets
Our Pulse Survey 2020 has been tracking marketing leaders’ focus on marketing and marketing technology budgets through March till June. These were some concrete outcomes:

44% of marketing leaders are maintaining their marketing budgets
22% of marketing leaders are maintaining their marketing budgets
38% of marketing budgets are being allocated to marketing technology
42% of marketing leaders are increasing spend on marketing technology

Buckling up budgets for email marketing success
Our Pulse survey also identified that email marketing (49%) and SEO (53%) are hands down the front runners in the marketing technology race. 

As email marketing has been resilient, tried and tested tool for brands to drive customer engagement, tap into their customers’ minds, and influence customer experience through their inboxes, our next segment drills into details that will provide effective insights on:

Industry-wise share of email marketing campaigns
Region-wise email marketing stats
Most read email content types

Email marketing remains the classic favorite globally
Acoustic researchers analyzed email marketing data including – send volume, open rates, click-through rates, click-to-open rates, and unsubscribe rates across thousands of campaign customers globally. They found that the global email open rates increased at an average of 4.7% from February to April.
Consumer products companies: The most active emailers
The COVID-19 impacted each industry in an accustomed fashion and these trends are an exact reflection of these unusual times. 
The top three sender industries were:

Government
Consumer products
Charities

Whereas, the least active industries, for obvious reasons were:

Travel agencies and services
Retail
Leisure, sports, and recreation

Interestingly, if you focus on Invoca’s graph, you’ll notice that the trend line for “Consumer products” and “Retail” is almost the opposite, showing that April was the tipping point to the highest “high” and lowest “low” for the respective industries.

Regions with the highest open rates
Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and Continental Europe were the most receptive to emails while India, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, and North America settled at the underbelly. At an aggregate level, email marketing experienced a 16.8% average growth rate across all the regions.

In terms of CTR from January through May 2020, Europe and the UK have outdone all the other geographies with a 2.9% average growth rate.

Most popular email type: Globally
“An important message from our CEO” types of emails were a hit with great open rates but didn’t earn too many call-to-action clicks.

North American inboxes were the most progressive
North American countries had a 38% jump in open rate, April vs February. While the USA and Canada specifically showed an average increase of 5.4% in their email open rates.
Business actionable emails were North America’s quarterly favorites
“How to do business with us” led to higher open rates and even more importantly an increase in click-through rates.

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