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The last few years we try and get pulse check on email senders and what best practices they’re following. Here’s what we we’re able to find out from senders in the 2026 email impact report with Clea Moore, Principal Product Manager over at Yahoo. Hang out with us as we discuss the ever evolving landscape of sending email in 2026 and onward.    Email’s Not Dead is a podcast about how we communicate...

We’re starting season 7 off with a legend! Creator of the world-famous deliverability blog spamresource.com, Al Iverson. Al has been in the email game since the late 90s and brings a ton of knowledge since the days of dial up. We were kind of star struck because if you work in email deliverability, you’ve definitely used his blog as a resource and tool to help solve your deliverability problems. H...

“Closing time, open all the doors and let you out into the world.” No, but for real we’re wrapping up the season, putting up the storm windows, holidays and long PTO are coming. We’ll be back in 2026 but before we board up the windows for the winter we wanted to recap everything that's happened this year in the email industry. Alison Gootee stopped by our studio because she's been keeping...

It’s been a long time coming for this interview to happen. The courteous and hilarious and Zunes biggest fan Mike Auldredge of Customer.io joined us with his friend and our now coworker Alison Gootee to brief you on what you should and shouldn't do for your Black Friday Cyber Monday prep. Yes, were talking about this in September because you need to get ready before its too late so we’ve got t...

T-Bird put a call out to the BIMI group to find out more about the amazing work they're doing to guide users on how to set up BIMI authentication for their brands. When low and behold we find out our friend Matthew Vernhout is actually the Communications Chair over at the BIMI Group. Of course we had to bring him back in and find out how this supergroup of email service providers are trying to...

The Email’s Not Dead gang got invited to host Inbox Expo 2025 out in Austin, TX for a few days. We got to see a ton of our email geek friends along with some new ones. We give you an overview of what other deliverability professionals are learning about this year along with finishing out the year in the inbox.     Email’s Not Dead is a podcast about how we communicate with each other and the broad...

You’ve heard of them before and they’ve definitely got the knowledge. Mike Nelson, Co-Founder of Really Good Emails and Justine Jordan, Email Enthusiast at Really Good Emails brought us their findings from their yearly survey on how long email marketeing teams take to craft a campaign. The results are fascinating and we’re excited they sharing what they’ve learned. Big thanks to the Really Good Em...

Megan Boshuyzen is back and with some critical updates in the email accessibility realm. She’s got a ton of tips on how you can optimize your email campaigns to be accessible ready for the new EAA (European Accessibility Act) that is going to roll out this June 28th. Listen up as she shares resources and how you can prepare for this new regulation. Learn how you can grow your audience even more by...

Friend of the podcast and friend of Mailgun, Brian Westnedge of Red Sift stopped by to talk about how Mailgun and Red Sift want to make DMARC adoption easy as possible for Mailgun users and why DMARC authentication is needed in your email strategy. Peter Trinder from Mailgun joined us as well to let us know what went into this process and what to expect.   Email’s Not Dead is a podcast about how w...

In the season finale of Email's Not Dead, hosts Eric and Jonathan recap the key insights from Season 5 and look ahead to the future of email. They revisit important discussions on DMARC implementation, Google and Yahoo's new sender requirements, and email marketing best practices. The hosts emphasize the importance of proactive email authentication and list hygiene while previewing upcomin...

On this latest episode of Email’s Not Dead, the M3AAWG organization stopped by along with their Brand SIG committee and board of directors to talk about all the amazing work they’ve accomplished. They’ve just celebrated their 20 year anniversary and they’re committed to making the internet a safer place. Learn more about the Messaging Malware Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group and if you're in th...

If you’re a part of the email community, you know for a fact that it's a very diverse group of people. That’s why on this episode we wanted to sit down and ask everyone to share a bit of their backgrounds and how we all landed in email. Chances are you literally fell into this career and now you love it. Join our friends Jay Oram, Head of Dev at ActionRocket with our own Megan Boshuyzen, Sr. E...

Continuing with you on this journey of the Yahoo and Google email authentication update, a familiar friend stopped by to explain to us the DMARC side of this whole update and how it affects you. Ash Morin, Director of Deployment at dmarcian joined us to give an overview of what he’s seen and what he predicts with the new email authentication standards update from Yahoo and Google.     Email’s Not...

Yay we got Chad S. White back in our virtual studio and its always a joy to have him. We learn about the new 4th edition of his book Email Marketing Rules. We’re such super fans Nick Schafer our Sr. Manager of Deliverability joined in to also hear Chad’s email marketing views on the Yahoo and Google email authentication update we talked about last time with Marcel Becker of Yahoo. Check out resour...

In fall of 2023 Yahoo and Google made a major announcement requiring all bulk email senders to enable email authentication standards to prevent bad actors from continuing to send spam. Why did Yahoo want to create a new standardization? We sat down with Marcel Becker who made the announcement on behalf of Yahoo and had a very good philosophical conversation. Don’t miss this! Resources: https://sen...

Email’s Not Dead is back and the first person we wanted to talk to is Alison Gootee because she’s one of the funniest people we’ve ever met. We chatted about the previously released state of email deliverability report, why we want our senders to use best practices and why JNCO jeans are suddenly back from the late 90s. Plug in, grab your walkman and join us for the season opener of Email’s Not De...

It’s the finale of season 4. We’ve been trying to get these amazing leaders of email onto this final episode and y’all we did it! Guilda Hilaire from Salesforce and Naomi West of Parcel.io got to sit down with us and talk about that notorious AI tool that’s on every email marketer and deliverability specialist mind lately. How do we feel about it? Where does it fit into email marketing and deliver...

We got two of the biggest names in deliverability and we had to bend their ears on all deliverability topics in the last 6 months. There's a lot going on right now in the deliverability world such as Spamhaus evolving to better serve their users, how people classify types of bounces and what is truly the best way to protect your email reputation. This is why you really need to listen to this episo...

This episode is an update on BIMI and who better to have on the show than Redsifts Brian Westnedge. He updates us on what's happened with BIMI since we first spoke about it in 2019 with Matt Vernhout and how bad actors are starting to work around BIMI and what you can do about it to prevent spoofing of your brand. Enjoy! Resources from this episode: bimiradar.com bimigroup.org Email’s Not Dead is...

We’re happy to be back in 2023 and ready to continue the season. We met Kelly Haggard last summer at ANA's Email Evolution conference and knew we had to get her on the show. She's working on an integration between Synchrony and Movable Ink and is leading email innovation on her team. Hear how they’re utilizing send time optimization for their new integration and what it takes to keep your team inf...

Meet LB Blair founder of Platonic Ideal. LB has been in the industry for years and combines her love of data and her passion for email all in one. LB has some hot takes on why data needs to be utilized in your email program and how to correctly use it. Sit back and hang out with Email’s Not Dead. Email’s Not Dead is a podcast about how we communicate with each other and the broader world through m...

If you’re in the email industry you know Spamhaus. Well, luckily we’ve worked with Matt Stith of Spamhaus and were bringing him to your ears. Hear about the transparency Spamhaus is trying to bring to the community and know that they’re super cool. Enjoy! Email’s Not Dead is a podcast about how we communicate with each other and the broader world through modern technologies. Email isn’t dead, but...

When we started this podcast we never intended to meet our email heroes. Well, it happened anyway. During this past summer, Email’s Not Dead attended some conferences and got to make new friends and we met the Mick Jagger of email marketing, Chad S. White. You may have heard of him from his book, Email Marketing Rules, out now on Amazon . He had some hot takes on the one-year anniversary of Apple'...

It’s the season finale and we’re excited to bring you the theme of this episode, when email goes wrong with Laura Atkins. She has over 30 years of experience fighting spam and collaborating with large enterprises to enable them to become better senders. Listen in for a fun-filled episode as we cap off season 3. We’ll see you soon for season 4.

We sat down with fellow Mailgun employees, Megan Boshuyzen, email developer, and Julia Ritter, email marketer as they just returned from UNSPAM, an email conference created by Really Good Emails ( listen to our episode with CEO Matthew Smith ). Find out everything they learned from upcoming 2022 email trends to why the quality of your email content matters. We hope you enjoy this one and we may se...