B
Evidence Grade B
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Recent
30%
30% -- email response rate for cold email campaigns (2025)
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Value
30%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
60
Freshness
95
Source
Fide
Primary
Tier B
https://www.fide.com.au/resources/cold-email-and-cold-call-benchmarks ↗
Source Article
Cold Email and Cold Call Benchmarks | Fide
Sales
With sales being process driven, it's important to analyse data on the performance of your campaigns and efforts. For many salespeople and marketers, it's difficult to identify if they're doing a good job without a benchmark. For example, a cold caller might feel that they're doing excellent o…
Original Research
Fide
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Methodology
Fide-published minimum response-rate benchmark for cold email (measured on prospects who opened the email); article undated, no survey methodology disclosed.
Methodology documented
Trend Over Time
| Period | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 (current) | 30% | |
| 2025 (current) | 50% | +66.7% |
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Industrymarketing
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cold email campaigns: 30% email response rate. Source: Fide (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/cold-email-response-rate-minimum-30
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