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68% of teens use TikTok at least once per week, surpassing YouTube in weekly usage for the first time ever. (Source: Forrester)

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✨ Today’s Insight ✨

How does the busy holiday season affect email engagement?

📰 TL;DR - It’s a conundrum like no other: you need to take advantage of the holiday sales season, but consumers are also getting inundated with holiday sales messaging.

Email testing company Litmus dove into this topic on their blog, showcasing three ways email engagement changes during the holiday season and how you can make the most of it.

💡 Insight - Shoppers increasingly make their purchases on mobile devices. According to Litmus, from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, about 44.2% of people opened emails on a mobile device vs 19.8% on a desktop application. Even more, in 2022, 47% of online sales came through mobile devices. Make sure your emails and website are mobile-friendly!

Try reaching audiences in the evening. When looking at data of when people were most likely to open emails during the holiday season, 7PM was the top spot with 9.45% of email opens on average.

Don’t be afraid to experiment, even during the busy holiday season. Contrary to the evening open stat, Litmus said that on the biggest holiday shopping holidays of the year, email open times can be variable around lunchtime. Since Black Friday and Cyber Monday fall on workdays, most people are using their breaks to scroll sales. But try out different variables to find your correct mix.

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