Emarsys and Return Path Announce Global Partnership and 22% Increase in Engagement for Radley

Strategic partnership enables enhanced email deliverability – the key to omnichannel excellence and consumer engagement for brands, such as luxury handbag manufacturer, Radley

London, U.K. – 26 July, 2018 – Emarsys, the largest independent marketing platform company in the world and Return Path, the leading global provider of email data solutions, are pairing up to enable marketers to reach more subscribers and increase conversions by helping to increase inbox placement.  With email being the number-one digital channel for delivering marketing revenue and the foundation for omnichannel excellence, the partnership allows Return Path’s inbox placement and reputation data to power the Emarsys Deliverability Advisor Solution and provide enhanced deliverability insight. Also, being announced is a significant joint client win with luxury handbag manufacturer, Radley, for whom the partners have increased email deliverability and customer engagement by 22%.

The partnership with Return Path enables Emarsys to help its clients improve their inbox placement by offering Return Path’s Certification and other services as listed on the Emarsys Enhance Marketplace. For those companies wishing to achieve successful omnichannel marketing campaigns, the first step for any marketer is to conquer the most important channel – email, where one of out of five messages fails to reach the inbox.[1] That’s a loss of 20 percent of potential revenue.

“Adding value to every email communication is high on every marketer’s agenda,” said Dave Littlechild, Global Head of Partnerships and Alliances at Emarsys. “Thanks to our partnership with Return Path, marketers can provide recipients with an engaging email experience, meaning increased inbox placement, open rates and, ultimately, revenues.”

Joint customer, Radley – the luxury handbag manufacturer, significantly increased email deliverability and engagement by 22% during their Black Friday marketing campaign. This proved an essential enhancement during this critical period, as retailers fight for customer engagement in a crowded space. Prior to engaging with Return Path and Emarsys, Radley faced issues with open rates on their customer campaigns and suffered low engagement rates over their shared IP pool. Radley also saw the direct benefit, once they engaged with Emarsys and Return Path, to Black Friday sales reminder email campaigns, which saw 28% uplift on open rates.

“Understanding who our customers are, and how they want to be engaged with, all starts with an effective email strategy,” said Kieran Walker, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, Radley. “For us to be efficient with our marketing spend and win these seasonal sales peaks we need to maximize every single communication on this channel. With Emarsys and Return Path we saw an immediate impact, with increased deliverability during a critical period. We can now use these insights to power more engagement across channels.”

“We’re thrilled that Emarsys’ clients are now able to take advantage of our Certification program to optimize their email deliverability,” said Ken Takahashi, Senior VP for Corporate Development at Return Path. “In fact, we’re already starting to get good feedback from marketers who are seeing results from Certification, including increased inbox placement and better subscriber engagement, allowing them to reach more subscribers and increase revenue.”

Through the Return Path and Emarsys partnership, customers can benefit from the following enhancements:

Emarsys manages over 350 million daily interactions while analyzing 3.5 billion consumer records and 2.5 million purchase events, integrating customer intelligence, personalization, predictive recommendations and omni-channel marketing at scale, across all devices and social channels into a single cloud-based marketing platform.

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References

(1) Return Path: 2016 Deliverability Benchmark Report

About Radley

Radley is a London-based, British accessories brand which designs and manufactures handbags, purses and other women’s accessories for UK and international markets. The brand was founded by Lowell Harder in 1998. Justin Stead is the current CEO of the brand and was appointed in May 2015. To find out more find us at www.radley.co.uk

About Return Path
Return Path analyzes the world’s largest collection of email data to show businesses how to stay connected to their audiences and strengthen their customer engagement. Our data solutions help analysts understand consumer behavior and market trends. We help mailbox providers around the world deliver great user experiences and build trust in email by ensuring that wanted messages to reach the inbox while spam doesn’t. To find out more about Return Path solutions, visit us at returnpath.com or request a demo.

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[1] https://returnpath.com/newsroom/return-path-reveals-one-five-commercial-emails-fails-reach-inbox/