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What’s New: AI Beta, Group Access, Help Tools and More


This month’s emfluence Marketing Platform updates bring you AI insights, the ability to hide archived groups, additional help tools, and more. Explore the latest features inspired by our user community: Archived Groups KF Asks: We have many archived groups which makes bulk assigning group access difficult on new users. Can you provide a way to hide those groups? In System Users, the Groups tab now includes an option to toggle archived groups on or off, allowing you to hide them from the list. AI Insights on the Contact Record emfluence […]

Yahoo Just Raised the Bar for Email Marketers—Are You Ready?


Yahoo recently moved from suggestion to enforcement when it comes to email deliverability. For email marketers, this shift raises the stakes: miss authentication, list quality, or complaint thresholds, and your campaigns might never reach inboxes again.  What’s New: From Soft Guidelines to Strict Enforcement  In early 2024, Yahoo (alongside Gmail) announced new sender requirements that essentially formalized what responsible senders have been doing for years:  Initially, Yahoo took a soft-enforcement approach: warning senders, sharing guidance, and giving teams time to adapt.  But beginning in April 2025, Yahoo started tightening enforcement. […]

What’s New in Email Client Updates and Why It Matters for Marketers 


Email clients like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and Apple Mail are rolling out updates that directly affect how your emails are filtered, displayed, and measured. Marketers who adapt can protect deliverability, improve design consistency, and measure performance more accurately.  Key Email Client Updates Marketers Need to Know About Email providers are implementing updates that will impact whether your emails reach inboxes and how you track results. Gmail is tightening spam filters, Yahoo is enforcing stricter authentication and complaint-rate thresholds, Outlook is using AI to organize emails, and Apple Mail is expanding […]

What You Need to Know About Google’s New Gmail Deliverability Requirements


If you send marketing emails to Gmail users, it’s time to tighten up your sending practices. As of June 2024, Google rolled out new rules for bulk senders that raise the bar on authentication, unsubscribe functionality, and spam complaint thresholds. The goal: a cleaner inbox experience for users. The consequence for marketers who don’t comply: slower delivery, lower inbox placement, and more messages headed straight to spam.  Here’s a breakdown of what changed and how to make sure your messages keep landing where they should.  Key Updates at a Glance  […]

Turning Donor Insights into Action: Avid and emfluence 


Donor data often lives in silos. Reports trail behind real behavior. Personalization takes hours of manual work. For fundraising teams, it’s a constant challenge to turn insights into action.  For one nationally recognized pediatric healthcare organization, these challenges were compounded by the need to ensure every outreach effort was efficient, relevant, and HIPAA compliant.  This organization set out to solve a familiar problem in fundraising: how to connect donor insights directly to marketing execution without adding more strain on their teams. To do this, they turned to two of their […]

 

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