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Five Inbox Logos That Are Not BIMI

Every so often someone emails me a screenshot from their inbox and asks a simple question: Is this a BIMI logo? A lot of the time, the answer is no. In my latest Ask Al video for Valimail , I walk through five logo, avatar, and profile picture mechanisms that can look a lot like BIMI sender logos, but are something else entirely. These are real things people still see in real inboxes, which …
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Is 2020 the year of BIMI?

You might notice that in my " 2020: What's next? " post, I didn't mention BIMI . BIMI, aka Brand Indicators for Message Identification, is the new way to specify what logo or brand avatar a sender wants shown alongside their email messages. ( Learn more abou…

Fun while it lasted...

Remember back in September when I blogged about how to create a Google+ account to make your brand icon display next to your emails when sending to Gmail users? Well, looks like that won't work after a certain point, as Google is shutting down Google+ and will be dele…

Howto: Create a Gravatar brand icon

Recently I talked about how to make your brand image icon show up when sending to Gmail recipients. Today I'll talk about how to do the same for a different set of smaller ISPs and email clients. Gravatar is a system owned by the folks behind Wordpress that allows you t…