Demand board · computed October 19

What r/emailmarketing keeps asking for

Recurring demands mined from the community's top posts this week, with the threads as receipts. Not invented: if it's listed, people are actually asking.

urgent

New reliable engagement and attribution metrics (since open rate is unreliable)

People are asking for better metrics and ways to attribute revenue when opens are inflated by Apple Mail Privacy Protection and support docs don't help — e.g., what to report instead of opens and how to track which email

urgent

Deliverability diagnosis, remediation, and reputation segmentation tools

Senders want tools and clear guidance to diagnose why legitimate emails land in spam or are flagged as phishing, and whether reputation should be separated by subdomain/mail-from/transactional vs. marketing

recurring

Recommendations and affordable ESP/platforms, integrations, and setup help for different‑s

People are asking for platform recommendations, pricing options (especially for non-profits), integrations (Pipedrive), and step‑by‑step setup/automation help for small clients and high‑volume senders

recurring

A single source for changes, rules, and product/network updates in email marketing

Users want an easy way to keep up with law changes, anti‑abuse policy updates, vendor features (e.g., Yahoo Sender Hub), and deliverability-impacting platform changes like Apple MPP

recurring

Simple, secure one‑click unsubscribe / List‑Unsubscribe tooling and examples

Developers and senders need clear libraries/examples and safe token patterns to implement List‑Unsubscribe (including List-Unsubscribe-Post) without breaking security or compliance

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