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Email and the customer experience

Here are two undeniable facts about brand communication: Consumers prefer email over other channels, but they’re also dealing with more messages from brands than ever...

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[Forrester study] The total economic impact of Mailgun

As enterprises seek to retain and engage customers, email communication remains a central pillar of a customer-obsessed digital strategy. But for email messages to be...

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S4 Ep. 07: ChatGPT, deliverability, email marketing and everything all at once with Guilda Hilaire and Naomi West

It’s the finale of season 4! We’ve been trying to get these amazing leaders of email onto this final episode, and we did it! Guilda Hilaire from Salesforce and Naomi West of Parcel.io got to sit down with us and talk about that notorious AI tool that’s on everyone’s mind...

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The Mailgun guide to email security and compliance

The Mailgun guide to email security and compliance

As much as we love email at Sinch Mailgun, we have to admit... protecting it from bad actors and adhering to data privacy laws is never-ending work. You need to join with your...

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Email and the customer experience title card

Email and the customer experience

Here are two undeniable facts about brand communication: Consumers prefer email over other channels, but they’re also dealing with more messages from brands than ever...

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The state of email deliverability 2023

What you don’t know about email deliverability can definitely hurt your email ROI...and your business. Unfortunately, the topic of achieving inbox placement is still a bit mysterious to...

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[Forrester study] The total economic impact of Mailgun

As enterprises seek to retain and engage customers, email communication remains a central pillar of a customer-obsessed digital strategy. But for email messages to be...

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Email in an evolving economy: The tech perspective

Email in an evolving economy: The tech perspective

There’s no doubt about it. Many organizations will face challenges as the global economy struggles in the next year. But digital communication solutions could help transform those...

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The Mailgun guide to email security and compliance

The Mailgun guide to email security and compliance

As much as we love email at Sinch Mailgun, we have to admit... protecting it from bad actors and adhering to data privacy laws is never-ending work. You need to join with your...

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Why email is the secret to a stronger retail supply chain.

Why email is the secret to a stronger retail supply chain

Still having nightmares about the supply chain insanity of the 2021 holiday shopping season? The supply chain challenges threatened to be the Grinch over the holidays...

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Migrating from Sendgrid to Mailgun Email API.

Migrating from Sendgrid to Mailgun Email API

When you’re tasked with switching email providers, procuring and understanding just how seamless that process will be can feel daunting. Migrating to a new ESP can be a risky...

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Migration from Mailchimp Transactional to Mailgun Email API.

Migrating from Mailchimp Transactional to Mailgun Email API

Switching email providers can feel daunting. Procuring and understanding just how seamless that process will be isn't always easy and migrating to a new ESP can be a risky...

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Understanding email deliverability.

Understanding email deliverability

The world of email is growing at an alarming rate. Today, there are approximately four billion email users in the world, and that’s expected to grow to 4.3 billion users by 2023. With...

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Send smart: Black Friday deliverability strategies

Black Friday is a challenge year after year, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be unpredictable. Learn how to send smarter – not harder – and build reliable deliverability...

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Tales of terror from the email void: The warm-up Podcast Edition

Here's a tale for you to sink your fangs into. The holidays are approaching extremely fast *gasp*...

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Mailgun and Ongage virtual happy hour

Join us for our first-ever virtual coffee and cocktails happy hour. Our program will include exciting...

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Mailgun: The most relied upon email platform for growing businesses

We’re the most relied upon email platform for growing businesses and we're here to ensure nothing stands between you...

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Innovation in email in the current climate: Reaching your clients’ inboxes

Adapting to change is becoming increasingly needful in these current times. Hear from our...

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Future-proofing your customer data with email validations

In our current global climate, digital communication has skyrocketed – and none more so that...

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Mailgun AMA: Webhooks and routes

Join James Burns and Mike Jones as they answer your questions about inbound routing and webhooks...

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Just getting started? Mailgun’s AMA

Sit down with James Burns and Mike Jones as they go over best practices for setting up your Mailgun account...

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Introducing Inbox Placement

Mailgun is happy to introduce our newest feature, Inbox Placement. Jorge, our Product Manager...

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Getting started with Mailgun: An intro to the platform

This on-demand, live training covers the steps required and resources available to successfully...

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Tales of terror from the email void 2019

As Cody – the newest marketer on the Meowgun team – prepares his next email campaign...

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How to use Mailgun’s email validation API

Mike, our Solutions Engineer, gives you a breakdown on how to use Mailgun’s email validation...

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How to use Mailgun to validate your email list

Thomas, our Marketing Specialist, gives you a breakdown on how to use Mailgun to validate your...

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Introducing the new Mailgun

Ready to take the tour and discover Mailgun's new look? We're here to show you around the new Mailgun UI...

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Email explained: What are routes?

Understanding the subtler points of email can be confusing, but we want to give you some...

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Email explained: What’s strategic engagement?

Travis Walton is here to explain why you should consider strategic engagement for your email sending strategy...

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Four personalization tricks to improve your email results

Join Mailgun and Ongage as we team up to bring you personalization tricks to improve your...

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Predictions & resolutions: Sending in 2019

Mailgun’s resident Deliverability Engineer and our Content Marketer review our 2019...

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Ecommerce: Preparation for holiday campaigns

The holidays are right around the corner – so preparation starts now. In ecommerce, it’s ideal to...

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Sending self-esteem

Poor sending leads to poor email self-esteem, but it doesn’t have to be that way. In our first...

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Tales of terror from the email void

With her next email marketing campaign around the corner, Miss Liz is eager to have the best...

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Email validation: What is it?

Email validation... what is it? One of our Technical Account Managers goes into detail about...

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Email validation 101: What goes into an email address?

Domain errors are the most common typo you can expect in an email address, but what about...

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Email validation 101: Prevent user errors on sign up forms

Keeping your distro list clean starts at the source of your customer journey. Even a small...

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Email validation 101: The hidden risks of sending to old lists

Getting your email messages to your target audience starts with a clean email list. But what...

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Best practices for 2018 emails

We all want better deliverability, but there are a few small things you need in place in order to...

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Three mistakes that can ruin your email lists

Typos, role-based email addresses, disposable mailboxes… What does that have to do with email lists...

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Everything you want to know about dedicated IPs but were afraid to ask

Our reputation team has a chat on all things dedicated IPs: When should you use them? How...

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PyTexas: Sending email with Python applications

Sending a single email is easy. Sending thousands, not so much. Mailgunner Douglas...

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Getting started with Mailgun

Just signed up for Mailgun? Get up and running quickly. Thomas from Mailgun shows you how to set up...

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Email deliverability: Finding a path to success

In a short video, learn about four key strategies that will help you ensure your emails have the...

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Tips for building HTML emails and workflow

Watch this hangout featuring Mailgun’s Lead Digital Product Designer, Lee Munroe, to learn...

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Email explained: What’s a dedicated IP?

Trying to land in the inbox and not sure if you need a dedicated IP? This week Patrick Tilley, one of Mailgun's developers...

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S5 Ep. 04: The DMARC side of the Yoogle update with Ash Morin of dmarcian

Continuing with you on this journey of the Yahoo and Google email authentication update, a familiar friend stopped by to explain to us the DMARC side of this whole update and how it affects you. Ash Morin, Director of Deployment at dmarcian joined us to give an...

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S5 Ep. 03: Chad S. White of the Oracle Digital Experience Agency is back. The email marketing side of the Yoogle update along with whats new in his book!

Yay we got Chad S. White back in our virtual studio and its always a joy to have him. We learn about the new 4th edition of his book Email Marketing Rules. We’re such super fans Nick Schafer our Sr. Manager of Deliverability joined in to also hear Chad’s email...

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S5 Ep. 02: The big emails standards update from Yahoo and Gmail with Marcel Becker of Yahoo

In fall of 2023 Yahoo and Google made a major announcement requiring all bulk email senders to enable email authentication standards to prevent bad actors from continuing to send spam. Why did Yahoo want to create a new standardization? We sat down with...

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S5 Ep. 01: The current state of email deliverability in 2023 with Alison Gootee of Braze

Email’s Not Dead is back and the first person we wanted to talk to is Alison Gootee because she’s one of the funniest people we’ve ever met. We chatted about the previously released state of email deliverability report, why we want our senders to use best...

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S4 Ep. 07: ChatGPT, deliverability, email marketing and everything all at once with Guilda Hilaire and Naomi West

It’s the finale of season 4! We’ve been trying to get these amazing leaders of email onto this final episode, and we did it! Guilda Hilaire from Salesforce and Naomi West of Parcel.io got to sit down with us and talk about that notorious AI tool that’s on everyone’s mind...

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S4 Ep. 06: The big deliverability episode with Brad Gurley of MessageGears and Nick Schafer of Mailgun

We got two of the biggest names in deliverability with us this episode, and we had to bend their ears on all the deliverability news from the last six months. There's a lot of news going on right now in the deliverability world, including how Spamhaus is evolving to better...

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S4 Ep. 05: Updates on BIMI with Brian Westnedge of Redsift

In this episode, we’re bringing you updates on BIMI – and who better to have on the BIMI show than Redsift’s Brian Westnedge? He updates us on what's happened with BIMI since we first spoke about it with Matt Vernhout in 2019, how bad actors are starting to work...

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S4 Ep. 04: Email innovation and collaboration with Kelly Haggard of Synchrony

We’re happy to be back in 2023, and we’re ready to continue this season of Email’s Not Dead. We met Kelly Haggard last summer at ANA's Email Evolution conference, and we knew immediately that we had to get her on the show. She's working on an integration...

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S4 Ep. 03: Email data and oops pancakes with LB Blair of Platonic Ideal

In our latest episode, we’re talking to LB Blair, the founder of Platonic Ideal. LB has been in the industry for years, and she combines her love of data and her passion for email together in her work. LB has some hot takes on why data needs to be utilized in your...

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S4 Ep. 02: Keeping it real and transparent with Matt Stith of Spamhaus

If you’re in the email industry, you know Spamhaus. We’ve had the opportunity to talk to Matt Stith of Spamhaus, and now we’re bringing him to your ears. Learn about the transparency Spamhaus is trying to bring to the email community, and why they’re super...

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S4 Ep. 01: Silver linings in omnichannel marketing with Chad S. White

When we started this podcast, we never intended to meet our email heroes, but it happened anyway. During this past summer, Email’s Not Dead attended some conferences and got to make new friends – and we met the Mick Jagger of email marketing, Chad S...

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S3 Ep. 07: When email goes wrong, with Laura Atkins of Word to the Wise

It’s the season finale and we’re excited to bring you this final episode: When email goes wrong, with Laura Atkins. She has over 30 years of experience fighting spam and collaborating with large enterprises to enable them to become better senders...

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S3 Ep. 06: Insights from an email marketer and email developer, with Megan Boshuyzen and Julia Ritter

We sat down with fellow Mailgun employees, Megan Boshuyzen, email developer and Julia Ritter, email marketer as they just returned from UNSPAM, an email conference...

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S3 Ep. 05: Implementing DMARC with Ash from Dmarcian

If you remember in Season 2, we had our friend Ash Morin from Dmarcian on the show to talk about spoofing, phishing, and his love of DMARC. Well, now he's back...

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S3 Ep. 04: The Inbox Insights 2022 guide with Jenna from Ascend2

We've got a gift for you and you can download it from the Mailjet blog. We just released our

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S3 Ep. 03: Matthew Smith of Really Good Emails wuz here!

We’re big fans, I mean really big fans of Really Good Emails. Such big fans that we had to get CEO and Co-founder Matthew Smith on the show to know a bit more about...

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S3 Ep. 02: Email changes in 2021

With growth come changes. Some changes are good and some changes are bad. That's why Jonathan and Eric bring you a recap of what changed in the email landscape in...

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S3 Ep. 01: Don't panic, it's just the Apple Privacy Policy

Welcome back to Season 3 of Email's Not Dead with your hosts Jonathan Torres and Eric Trinidad. A lot has happened since season 2 and we're here to let you know...

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S2 Ep. 07: Spoofing, phishing, and DMARC with Ash Morin of Dmarcian

We're wrapping up this wild ride of a year and season by clearing the air on phishing and spoofing with Ash Morin, Senior Deployment Manager of Dmarcian...

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S2 Ep. 06: Tales of terror from the email void - The warm up

Here's a tale for you to sink your fangs into. The holidays are approaching extremely fast *gasp*. Which is why you need to start...

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S2 Ep. 05: We just got back from Email Camp 2020

Eric and Jonathan are back with a brand new episode of Email’s Not Dead to recap the all-new Email Camp 2020 presented by Mailgun and Mailjet...

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S2 Ep. 04: Applying the sending funnel in our current climate

Things have become a little weird around the world so we brought in our expert, Kate Nowrouzi, VP of Deliverability...

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S2 Ep. 03: The developer episode or the devisode

Hosts Jonathan Torres and Eric Trinidad dive into the emailing underworld and come back out with a distinctive look at the way developers and marketers send email...

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S2 Ep. 02: Sending emails at the right time with Send Time Optimization

Wait, wait, we have more. In this episode, Mailgun’s Product Manager, Chris Farmer brings you up to speed on how you can send your emails at the right time...

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S2 Ep. 01: Introducing Inbox Placement

A new year means a new season of Mailgun's Email's Not Dead. We have Jorge Miramontes, our Product Manager, introducing...

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S1 Ep. 07: Season Finale: Complaints and unsubscribes

Can you still be friends with your customers after an unsubscribe? Learn why it's best to have organic email addresses...

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S1 Ep. 06: Sunset policy and tracking

Sometimes you need to clean house, and that includes your sending habits...

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S1 Ep. 05: Sending a more relevant message with omnichannel communication

Omnichannel marketing and email, how does it all fit in? Jonathan and Eric sat down with co-founder and CEO of Omnisend...

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S1 Ep. 04: Combatting email fraud & building your brand with BIMI

Last time, Nick Schafer showed up to predict the future of spam. Now we’re bringing in 250ok’s Director of Privacy, Matthew Vernhout, to talk shop about Brand Indicators for Message Identification (aka BIMI)...

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S1 Ep. 03: Where we’re going, we don’t need spam

We’re looking to the future, so we brought in Mailgun’s Nostradamus...

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S1 Ep. 02: Now that’s what I call spam

As email spam became more widespread in the early 2000s, policymakers started fighting back...

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S1 Ep. 01: The history of spam

Email isn’t back from the grave – it was never in there in the first place! Welcome to our new podcast, Email's Not Dead.

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Scribd partners with Iterable + Mailgun to engage readers around the globe

In 2007, Scribd launched the world’s first open publishing platform. Today, with over 100 million unique monthly visitors, a digital library of more than 1 million titles, and...

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Samba.ai: Growing fast and growing smart with Mailgun

Today, with the help of Mailgun’s powerful and scalable platform, the Samba.ai platform is able to send 50 million emails a month...

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TextMagic improves deliverability rate with Mailgun

Email is one of the leading forms of online communication for businesses, whether internally with employees or externally with users. Other channels are becoming more popular due to their...

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How AdRoll sends & tracks emails in their Ruby app using the Mailgun API

Today’s post is written by Peter Clark, CEO of userfox (now AdRoll), an awesome new startup that is changing the way businesses communicate with their customers via email. They just launched a...

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Zipbooks switched from Mandrill to Mailgun using Laravel

ZipBooks, a happy customer of Mailgun, is free accounting and invoicing software with every feature you might expect from a paid application...

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How Tealeaf Academy increased student engagement 3x

At Tealeaf Academy, creating a “Study Together, Progress Together” experience for our students is at core of our way of teaching. One of our core tools is the discussion board where students ask questions...

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How Ruby-based DNSimple uses Mailgun’s API to create & configure domains for email forwarding

At DNSimple we love DNS in an almost unhealthy way. What we don’t love though is managing mail servers. Earlier this year we decided to add email forwarding as one of the services we offer...

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Behind the scene at Jungle Disk: Reliable email communications with Mailgun

As a SaaS business, one of our primary communication channels with our customers is over email and 

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Optimizing data privacy for scalable and secure email programs with Sinch Mailgun and Transcend

Patreon uses Mailgun to help manage email communications for their immense, online universe of creators and patrons. Mailgun handles...

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Marketing automation at scale: Customer.io + Mailgun

When Customer.io, an automated messaging platform, ran into scaling issues with their Email Service Provider (ESP), it felt like they were trying...

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How Cinemark utilized Mailgun to streamline their customer service experience

Cinemark was able to utilize Mailgun's Email Validation API to provide real-time corrections on misspelled email addresses, allowing Cinemark...

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Mailgun + Dovetail: A recipe for rapid growth

Dovetail is not your typical software agency. They don’t specialize in marketing strategy, Salesforce integrations, or creative design – they specialize...

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Embracing growth: The Omnisend story

Omnisend needed to find a new solution that provided a seamless enduser experience. They needed to be more than just another end-user o...

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How Dribbble improved connection & scalable sending with Mailgun

As the largest designer-oriented jobs community, Dribbble enables designers to display and share their work with peers and companies alike. As...

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Causes sees 20% increase in clicks with Mailgun

We love to hear great stories from our customers. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be the email automation engine behind such a great cause,...

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Creating a better user experience with email and validations

Today, Flipsnack supports over two million active creators in making the best possible online catalogs, portfolios, magazines, and more from...

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Sending millions of job alerts 24/7 with the Mailgun Email API

Transactional marketing emails are an important part of everyday business, and when done correctly they can even bring people closer to...

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How UserVoice solved their incoming email problem

This post was written by Jonathan Novak, Head of Engineering at UserVoice, where he just celebrated his 3rd year at the company...

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How Zapier uses Mailgun to send emails

We hosted a Google Hangout yesterday featuring Mailgun customer, Zapier. In this hangout, Joe Stych from Zapier, showcased how they use...

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How Ruby-based Vero uses Mailgun’s Campaign Analytics API

I’m Chris, one of the co-founders of Vero. We’re an email remarketing company: we make it easy for online businesses to track exactly what their...

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Finding the perfect match through email marketing

In a saturated space like the online dating market, it’s not just about swiping left to find the right match.

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Growing Digital Storefronts with Mailgun and Drupal

Founded in 2001, Drupal is a popular open source CMS that remains competitive in the open source ecosystem due to wide support from thousands of contributors all over...

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Sending success all in one platform - The PUBG Story

By the time PUBG started using Mailgun’s Deliverability Services, they had already been using Mailgun for over a year with great success. PUBG saw an opportunity to bring...

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