B
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0.21%
0.21% -- email unsubscribe rate for authors and content creators (2025)
Authors and content creators have an average/median email unsubscribe rate of around 0.21%.
- Represents an approximate benchmark ('around 0.21%')
- Based on MailerLite's benchmark dataset analyzing campaigns
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0.21%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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Evidence Quality
B
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Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
MailerLite
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Tier B
https://blogherald.com/content-digital-publishing/n-the-psychology-of-the-unsubscribe-what-it-actual… ↗
Source Article
The psychology of the unsubscribe: what it actually means when someone leaves your list - The Blog Herald
Most email marketing metrics are abstract.
Open rates, click-through rates, conversion percentages — they are aggregates, statistical averages that describe a population of readers without any individual face. The unsubscribe is different. It registers as a specific person making a deliberate choice…
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authors and content creators: 0.21% email unsubscribe rate. Source: MailerLite (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/unsubscribe-rate-authors-content-creators
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