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  <body-formatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Market size and growth (&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-marketing-buyers-guide"&gt;Econsultancy Email Marketing Platforms Buyers Guide&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The UK market for email marketing platforms and services was worth &#163;254m in 2008 and is predicted to grow by an estimated 15% to a value of &#163;292m by the end of 2009.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="Econsultancy chart - value of UK email market" height="306" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4015723907_18400f7b1c_o.jpg" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open and click rates (&lt;a href="http://www.epsilon.com/pdf/EPS_EmailTrendandBenchmarkReport_Q2_2009_100609.pdf"&gt;Epsilon&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Epsilon stats from Q2 of 2009 found that 14 out of 16 industries 
experienced an increase of 18% or more in email open rates compares with Q2 2008, while click rates 
remained at 5.9%. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Financial service companies' emails were most likely to be opened, with an average open rate of 35.6% 
in Q2 2009, compared with 28.4% the previous year. Retail email, by comparison, had an average open rate of just 13.4%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Smartphones and email usage (&lt;a href="http://pages.exacttarget.com/Utilization"&gt;ExactTarget&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Smartphones with internet access have had the effect of increasing email activity amongst users.&#160; 43% of Blackberry and 41% of iPhone owners say that they have used email more often over the last six months, compared with 26% of non-smartphone users. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two-thirds of smartphone owners say they use email on their phone, a 5% increase over the last six months. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Social networks and email usage (ExactTarget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A recent ExactTarget study suggests that social networks have contributed to increased email usage: &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://email.exacttarget.com/" target="_self"&gt;&lt;img alt="ExactTarget chart" height="357" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/4016531310_50c85e7feb_o.jpg" width="460" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Email is used more regularly than social networking for personal communication. 79% of respondents use email as their primary mode of communication, only 10% use social networks. &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/press-releases/4395-marketers-move-budgets-to-email-and-capitalise-on-instant-return-on-investment"&gt;(Epsilon&lt;/a&gt;)&#160;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deliverability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two fifths of Europe's email marketers don't know if their email messages are being successfully delivered. (&lt;a href="http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2009/07/two-in-five-european-email-mar.php"&gt;Return Path&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Only 18% of companies know what percentage of their email budget is lost through non-delivery. Company respondents said that 10% of email is lost through non-delivery on average, though agencies estimate this to be even higher at 14%. (&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-census"&gt;Econsultancy Email Marketing Industry Census&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Email deliverability is still an issue for companies, with an average of just 79.3% of permission-based commercial emails reaching inboxes in Canada and the US. (&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/4270-20-of-marketing-emails-missing-inboxes-survey"&gt;Return Path&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</body-formatted>
  <body-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Market size and growth (&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-marketing-buyers-guide"&gt;Econsultancy Email Marketing Platforms Buyers Guide&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;The UK market for email marketing platforms and services was worth &amp;pound;254m in 2008 and is predicted to grow by an estimated 15% to a value of &amp;pound;292m by the end of 2009.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2733/4015723907_18400f7b1c_o.jpg" alt="Econsultancy chart - value of UK email market" width="460" height="306" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Open and click rates (&lt;a href="http://www.epsilon.com/pdf/EPS_EmailTrendandBenchmarkReport_Q2_2009_100609.pdf"&gt;Epsilon&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Epsilon stats from Q2 of 2009 found that 14 out of 16 industries 
experienced an increase of 18% or more in email open rates compares with Q2 2008, while click rates 
remained at 5.9%. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Financial service companies' emails were most likely to be opened, with an average open rate of 35.6% 
in Q2 2009, compared with 28.4% the previous year. Retail email, by comparison, had an average open rate of just 13.4%.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Smartphones and email usage (&lt;a href="http://pages.exacttarget.com/Utilization"&gt;ExactTarget&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Smartphones with internet access have had the effect of increasing email activity amongst users.&amp;nbsp; 43% of Blackberry and 41% of iPhone owners say that they have used email more often over the last six months, compared with 26% of non-smartphone users. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two-thirds of smartphone owners say they use email on their phone, a 5% increase over the last six months. &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Social networks and email usage (ExactTarget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;A recent ExactTarget study suggests that social networks have contributed to increased email usage: &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://email.exacttarget.com/" target="_self"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2450/4016531310_50c85e7feb_o.jpg" alt="ExactTarget chart" width="460" height="357" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Email is used more regularly than social networking for personal communication. 79% of respondents use email as their primary mode of communication, only 10% use social networks. &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/press-releases/4395-marketers-move-budgets-to-email-and-capitalise-on-instant-return-on-investment"&gt;(Epsilon&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Deliverability&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Two fifths of Europe's email marketers don't know if their email messages are being successfully delivered. (&lt;a href="http://www.returnpath.net/blog/2009/07/two-in-five-european-email-mar.php"&gt;Return Path&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Only 18% of companies know what percentage of their email budget is lost through non-delivery. Company respondents said that 10% of email is lost through non-delivery on average, though agencies estimate this to be even higher at 14%. (&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-census"&gt;Econsultancy Email Marketing Industry Census&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Email deliverability is still an issue for companies, with an average of just 79.3% of permission-based commercial emails reaching inboxes in Canada and the US. (&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/4270-20-of-marketing-emails-missing-inboxes-survey"&gt;Return Path&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
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  <extract-formatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's a selection of recent email related stats, taken from a range of source, including Econsultancy's &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-marketing-statistics"&gt;Email Statistics&lt;/a&gt; document, which forms part of the &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/internet-statistics-compendium"&gt;Internet Statistics Compendium&lt;/a&gt;, and other reports... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</extract-formatted>
  <extract-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Here's a selection of recent email related stats, taken from a range of source, including Econsultancy's &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-marketing-statistics"&gt;Email Statistics&lt;/a&gt; document, which forms part of the &lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/internet-statistics-compendium"&gt;Internet Statistics Compendium&lt;/a&gt;, and other reports... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</extract-unformatted>
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  <learn-more-formatted>&lt;p&gt;The&#160;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-marketing-statistics"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email Marketing Statistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&#160;document is a
comprehensive compilation of internet statistics and online market
research with data, facts, charts and figures that are ideal for
presentations, business cases or client pitches, RFPs and understanding
the marketplace as a whole.&#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have aggregated as much data, research and resources together in
this one place, to help you quickly find the relevant statistics or
information about email marketing that you need. &lt;/p&gt;</learn-more-formatted>
  <learn-more-unformatted>&lt;p&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/email-marketing-statistics"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Email Marketing Statistics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;document is a
comprehensive compilation of internet statistics and online market
research with data, facts, charts and figures that are ideal for
presentations, business cases or client pitches, RFPs and understanding
the marketplace as a whole.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have aggregated as much data, research and resources together in
this one place, to help you quickly find the relevant statistics or
information about email marketing that you need. &lt;/p&gt;</learn-more-unformatted>
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