not a beehiiv issue. can confirm across multiple sources that open rates seem to be impacted since the gmail/yahoo changes went into effect at the beginning of the month
sendgrid, who we use and share infrastructure with dozens of other email platforms, confirmed they are seeing a decrease in open rates globally across all customers
but not to limit to sendgrid, we have spoken with deliverability leads at several other ESPs and newsletters on other platforms who have all confirmed the exact same thing in the past 3-4 weeks
we have had a handful of leads come over complaining about their open rates at their previous platform and were very straightforward with them in that it likely wasn't the fault of their previous platform
anyway that's all to say that it's a bit frustrating due to factors outside of the control of any email platform, but there's some best practices to follow nonetheless:
1) recommend using a custom domain
2) setup google postmaster tools
3) ensure DMARC is set up properly
4) churn subscribers who haven't engaged in the past 3+ months
5) encourage readers to reply to your emails
6) optimize for quality acquisition channels vs quantity (spam complaints are being more heavily penalized)
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@fernandocaralt@SpressoMatutino This is massive. Not an easy thing to keep the open rate above 50% and CTR above 8%. A perfect combo.
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