B
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85%
85% -- inbox placement rate for Email industry average for legitimate senders (2026)
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Value
85%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
mailchannels.com
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Tier C
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Source Article
Transactional Email for Platforms and Multi-Tenant Apps | MailChannels
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mailchannels.com
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Industry-average inbox placement benchmark cited by MailChannels as comparison baseline; underlying research source not named.
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Email industry average for legitimate senders: 85% inbox placement rate. Source: mailchannels.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-industry-inbox-placement-average
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-industry-inbox-placement-average" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>85%</strong> -- inbox placement rate for Email industry average for legitimate senders<br><small>Source: mailchannels.com (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/email-industry-inbox-placement-average" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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