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ISP Deliverability Guide: Gmail (Updated)

Google's Gmail might be the preeminent mailbox provider. Launched in 2004 , Gmail has grown from the "new kid on the block" into one of the biggest hosts of individual email mailboxes in the world. Depending on what data you look at, you might even see Gmail as the #1 mailbox provider, at least here in t…

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Salesforce to Acquire Braze

I was director of deliverability for ExactTarget, later called Salesforce Marketing Cloud, for fifteen years. I still help a number of compa...

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BFCM 2026: Are You Ready?

Black Friday/Cyber Monday approaches! What will this year hold in the way of deliverability challenges? When I surveyed readers last year a...