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82%
82% -- message read rate within five minutes for RCS messaging (2025)
Roughly 82% of RCS messages are read within five minutes.
- Described as 'roughly 82%'
- Editorial note indicates the statistic was carried over from a prior version and attributed to Sinch
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82%
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Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Sinch
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Tier C
https://www.rallycorp.com/blog/rcs-for-nonprofits-boost-engagement-without-losing-the-human-touch ↗
Source Article
RCS vs SMS for Nonprofits: The Richer Way to Text Donors
RCS for Nonprofits: A Richer Way to Text Supporters
Your supporters are not ignoring you because they stopped caring. They're tuning you out because everything on their phone is fighting for the same few seconds. Email gets buried. Social feeds bury you on purpose. So the message that moves people i…
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Sinch
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Attributed to Sinch per article's own flag
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RCS messaging: 82% message read rate within five minutes. Source: Sinch (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/rcs-read-within-five-minutes-82
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