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17% -- reduction in unsubscribes from name in subject line for Email marketing campaigns (2026)

2026  · Stanford

Adding the recipient's name to an email subject line reduced unsubscribes by 17% in the main experiment of a Stanford working paper.

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Email marketing campaigns: 17% reduction in unsubscribes from name in subject line. Source: Stanford (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/stanford-name-subject-line-unsubscribes
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