Are you ready to take your email marketing game to the next level? We’ve got just the thing: dynamic content.
Dynamic content is a type of email that uses automated rules to change the content of your email based on information you know about a recipient or their behavior. As a result, each subscriber receives a unique version of your email based on the data you want to use.
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Dynamic Content Email Marketing Software
Relevancy is one of the most important elements of a successful email campaign. To ensure your email is relevant, you must personalize each message. Instapage found that personalized emails improve click-through rates by 41%, and open rates by 29%.
So how do you personalize emails for a diverse (and huge) list? By leveraging dynamic content in your email.
What is dynamic content?
Simply put, dynamic content is HTML within your email that changes based on the end user. The most basic example of dynamic content is using a merge tag in your email service provider (ESP) to pull the first name of your reader into your message. However, the field of dynamic content is rapidly expanding as are the different kinds of software available that make increasingly relevant email possible.
In this blog, we’ve compiled our top 15 picks (laid out in alphabetical order) for the best software to use to deploy dynamic content in your email campaigns. The list includes the tools you need to display different images, localize subject lines, switch up offers and CTA’s and more, all based on customer data.
The roundup
1.act on logo
Act-on displays dynamic content through text blocks, images, calls to action, checkboxes, lists, downloads and more. With this software, you’re empowered to tailor your content and offers based on an individual’s demographic information, preferences and purchase history.
2.avari logo
AVARI’S software produces real-time content recommendations so you can send your recipients millions of unique combinations of text and incentives. AVARI also provides plug-n-play dynamic content blocks that allow easy, in the moment personalization for your user.
3.bluecore logo
Getting started with Bluecore’s email triggering system is as simple as pasting a snippet of code on your site. The software asks you what behaviors are the most important in driving conversions, and then follows them, automatically sending the best email for every situation.
- boomtrain logo
Boomtrain is a personalized notification platform that enables companies to send email and push notifications that are customized for each recipient. Their software ensures it is sending your reader the most engaging content possible by analyzing behaviors, mood, trending content, metadata and semantics.
- cordial logo
Cordial’s intelligent messaging platform captures data from the web, mobile apps, devices and point of sale to build a real-time user profile. Their context-aware triggered messaging tracks subscriber behavior in the moment so you can send emails based on user activity like cart abandonment or browser behavior.
6.hubspot logo
Hubspot’s software makes dynamic content possible in automated workflows. This technology places your lead in the most relevant workflow based on their behavior and point of entry onto your list and allows you to personalize images, text and CTAs.
7.Kickdynamic
Kickdynamic empowers you to market in the moment by adapting content based on location, device, timing and weather. Kickdynamic’s rule builder will acclimate to the exact contextual situation of your customer for a personalized email experience, every time.
8.LiveIntent logo
LiveIntent offers real-time advertising technology for email. This advanced software allows you to manage your ad inventory just like display advertising and serves up ads in email dynamically, based on the context of when the email is opened.
9.MovableInk logo
MovableInk integrates into your ESP and allows you to target individuals based on time, geolocation, device, weather and other consumer contexts. It also provides the ability to upload multiple creative variations to cater to your entire audience’s needs.
10.NiftyImages logo
NiftyImages delivers hyper-personalized images in email that allow you to segment from any subscriber variable. You can integrate NiftyImages with your current ESP to provide custom images to each and every reader.
11.Pardot logo
Pardot allows you to display content based on your prospect’s email activity, geography, job title and much more. Tracking your subscriber’s city or state? With Pardot you can display upcoming events based on your recipient’s location for an extremely targeted mailing.
12.Powerinbox logo
Powerinbox works with your ESP to offer an email solution with real-time capabilities, dynamic animation and device and geographic targeting. With Powerinbox’s optimized analytics, you can message your reader with animated product displays, real-time countdowns and more to monetize your mailing.
13.RealTime Email logo
RealTime Email offers real-time (get it?) capabilities to deliver content that responds to each recipient’s personal context. With this software you can optimize your email by using contextual data (like geo-location, weather conditions, mobile device in use and more) collected at the moment it’s opened.
14.SimpleRelevance logo
SimpleRelevance uses a machine learning engine to digest your reader’s demographic, psychographic and behavioral data. SimpleRelevance makes sense of your data to automate your most successful marketing through many digital channels, including email.
15.Skymosity logo
Weather can greatly influence purchase decisions, with Skymosity you can create automated triggered email campaigns based on weather conditions, temperature fluctuation and emergency alerts. Skymosity’s EA Rainmaker technology is focused on increasing your email revenue with triggers that deploy emails to the right person at the right time.
Dynamic Capabilities with ESPs
While we focused on dynamic software that easily integrates with your mailing platform, it’s important to note that ESPs are beginning to offer options for dynamic content blocks or their own tools to increase email personalization. For example, Emma allows you to send unique content to each recipient from a single email based on the data you collect about your subscribers. ConstantContact also provides a helpful how-to article on the code you need to create relevant email for the end user.
If you aren’t sure about the dynamic capabilities of your ESP, give their support a shout to see how you can start increasing your email metrics, and in turn, your ROI today.
dynamic content email examples
Email marketing consistently ranks as one of the most effective marketing channels in terms of ROI. But to stand out in a crowded field you need to optimise for device, utilise the latest technology, and have compelling creative. Without any of this crucial trio your email will fall flat.
It’s all very well telling marketers they need to use dynamic email with creative designs and attention grabbing copy, but it’s very different to actually produce it. Often the best way to get inspiration for your own campaign is to see examples of effective email campaigns that you can draw upon. That’s way we’re giving you 6 examples of creative and effective dynamic content emails to inspire you in 2017.
- Knomo – Scalable design for mobile optimization
As you can see from the desktop and mobile versions of this email from Knomo, by designing the desktop email with a simple layout with large text and buttons, the mobile version needn’t be dramatically different. This saves time and the scalable design means it’s sure to work on screens of all sizes.
Desktop version:
Mobile Version:
- River Island – Responsive design using hybrid layouts
River Island opted to use hybrid or ‘spongy’ as is it is often called coding to change the layout, usually based on the width of the screen. As you can see from the examples below, the desktop email has a different layout to the mobile version, to make use of the additional screen width.
Mobile version:
- Feel Unique – Use of Gif in email
This simple but clever use of a gif to showcase the functionality of their app makes the email stand out and invites the reader to see more. - Acid- Interactive email
As you can see if the gif below, Acid email developed an interactive email which invited users to crack a code to get their coupon. This interactive element increased engagement and hooks users in. - B&Q – Useful interactivity
Interactivity doesn’t just have to be nifty little features to boost engagement. It can serve a useful purpose for the customer as well. This email from B&Q shows how you can add interactive elements to let your customers explore your offering within the email itself. - Sainsbury’s- Interactive active content platform
Sainsbury’s have combined personalised product emails with interactivity to allow customers to change product attributes based on their own preferences, without having to leave the email.
We hope you found these examples useful. Best of luck with your own email campaigns.
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