Marketing

Creative of the Month: October

October’s creative has been full of surprises. From interactive choices and personalised gifting to a festive collaboration and a cheeky win-back, this month’s top five have given ...

Code

Fixing white lines in Outlook: the 2026 guide

You've spent hours crafting your latest campaign. The copy sings, the images are optimised, the links are triple-checked, and every stakeholder has (finally) approved. You send ...

Marketing

Braze meets Salesforce: what the acquisition means for you

Big news landed in our inboxes this week: Braze has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce, in a deal worth around $5.66bn. If your LinkedIn feed looks ...

Marketing

There’s a traitor in your CRM: how to stay faithful to your customers

If you’ve spent your Thursday and Friday nights shouting at the telly during The Celebrity Traitors, you’ll know the whole game comes down to one question: who do you trust? Your ...

Marketing

What Newzoo’s global games market data means for CRM

Retention, expansion, ownership. These three key themes are shaping the global games market right now, according to the new report released by data and insights company, Newzoo. ...

Marketing

The Black Friday survival guide nobody gives CRM teams

Your segments are built. Your journeys are mapped. Your subject lines have been A/B tested within an inch of their lives. But who's checking on you?

Marketing

Nudgestock 2026: what trust means for CRM

I recently headed to Nudgestock 2026 in London for a day of behavioural science, brand thinking, and a lot of conversation about trust. It was a natural follow-on from the latest ...

Marketing

Email marketing podcasts that are worth a listen

Some of our best conversations happen in front of a microphone. Over the years, our team has shared insights, expertise and a few laughs on podcasts across the email and CRM ...

Code

iOS 27 and email: what marketers need to know

Every September, Apple drops something that sends email teams scrambling for a test device. This year it's a bigger shake-up than usual. iOS 27 landed on 14 September, the ...

Marketing

Creative of the Month: September

September’s creative has given us plenty worth shouting about. This month’s top five takes us from playful student puns and brilliantly cheeky re-engagement to purpose-led ...

Marketing

Omnichannel loyalty CRM: how to create connected customer journeys

PSA: Your customers don’t think in channels. They are not waking up thinking, ‘I’ve just interacted with the app, so now I’m moving into the email part of my journey’. They simply ...

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Creative of the Month: August

August gave us throwback creative, public call-outs, playful inbox copy, and plenty of movement. From reviving an iconic campaign to turning group-chat indecision into out-of-home ...

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Why your Wrapped campaign should start now

Last December we wrote about the joy of Wrapped emails. At the time, our message was pretty simple: Wrapped works because it makes people feel seen. It takes all those tiny ...

Marketing

New job, new tools, one AI colleague

Three months at ActionRocket: new tools and an AI colleague Three months into life at ActionRocket, I’ve clocked 3,386 emails, made peace with Asana, acquired an AI colleague ...

Marketing

Meet our Charity of the Year: Felix

ActionRocket is proud to be supporting Felix as our official Charity of the Year.

Marketing

Creative of the Month: July 2026

Football fever, summer wardrobes, and a spice jar with impeccable comic timing – July gave us plenty of creative inspiration, from clever copy to thoughtful personalisation. Here ...

Code

Making video work in email

This is the second part of our blogs on using video in email - checkout 'why you should use video in email marketing' for all the marketing info. But if you’re looking for code ...

Marketing

How did we do it? Video in email special

Video in email - how did we do it? For this special Email Weekly, we wanted to bring together some techniques that I had been playing with over the last few months to bring video ...

Marketing

Video in email

We have long been passionate about creating the best experience in email for your recipients and for years video has not been something that was viable. Different email clients ...

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Why RCS is finally viable for mobile messaging in the US

For years, Rich Communication Services (RCS) was the channel everyone in the US talked about, but very few could use it at any real scale. Now it seems that things have changed. ...

Marketing

Creative of the Month: June 2026

June delivered World Cups, Prime Day provocation, and a summer's worth of creative worth talking about. Here's what caught our eyes this month.

Design

Salesforce Connections 2026

It’s been a couple of weeks since I got the chance to go to Salesforce Connections in Chicago. I’m a bit of a thinker and definitely more of an introvert than extrovert, so ...

Marketing

How Nordic Game showed us the games industry needs email

The overarching narrative across the five stages at Nordic Game was crystal clear: we are navigating a massive industry transition.

Marketing

The psychology of the inbox: designing emails for tired brains

I am currently heading back to London on the Eurostar after attending the Email Marketing Automation Summit at the Circa in Amsterdam – where the industry’s brightest minds ...

Marketing

Salesforce community comes together ahead of World Tour

Yesterday, ActionRocket teamed up with Salesforce to host a community meetup ahead of Salesforce World Tour London happening this week.

Marketing

What Meta Conversations 2026 taught me about the future of customer engagement

Messaging, agentic AI and WhatsApp are reshaping CRM. Here’s what Meta Conversations 2026 taught us about customer engagement.

Marketing

The human-centred approach to AI adoption

After recently being asked to talk at the Asana Work Innovation Summit about how we have introduced AI into our campaign management processes, I started to think a little deeper – ...

Marketing

My five favourite conversations from Inbox Expo 2026

Not going to lie, I got a little high on human interaction at this conference.

Marketing

Creative of the Month: May 2026

From billboards to newsletters to emails, here are five picks that caught our eye and our hearts in May.

Marketing

What is RCS? The future of mobile messaging

Learn all about RCS, what it is, and why it is important.

Marketing

Braze City x City London: AI is everywhere, but human creativity still matters

Earlier this month, the ActionRocket team attended Braze City x City London to hear what’s next for customer engagement, lifecycle marketing, and AI within the Braze ecosystem.

Marketing

Why KitKat knows how to make the most of a break

Few brands have a slogan as deeply embedded in popular culture as KitKat. "Have a break, have a KitKat" has been running since 1957 and yet, somehow, it still feels relevant. ...

Marketing

10 insights on how to use AI to sound more human, not less

Whatever your attitude is towards AI, it’s here, and it’s not going anywhere.

Marketing

Creative of the Month: April 2026

Great creativity doesn't always land in an inbox,it shows up in packaging, on social media, in newsletters and campaigns that blur the line between art and marketing. So, from ...

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Email Weekly wins gold at Hermes Creative Awards 2026

We're excited to announce that Email Weekly has won gold at the 2026 Hermes Creative Awards in the Creative Design Publications category.

Marketing

Our team's top picks of marketing bangers

Every so often, our team gets together to share a banger, aka a piece of marketing they’ve seen and loved. It can be anything from a TV ad to a tube billboard, some clever ...

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ActionRocket wins Triple Platinum at the Hermes Creative Awards with BBC Studios

We're absolutely thrilled to share our collaboration with BBC Studios on Walking with Dinosaurs has been recognised at the Hermes Creative Awards - winning Platinum across all ...

Marketing

Top Designs for March

Spring is here, and our March top 5 is feeling it. From a welcome email that earns its place to a gut health brand that made us actually read every word, this month's picks span ...

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DMA Email Tracker 2026: key takeaways for email marketers

Marketing

Giving and Receiving Feedback: A Skill Worth Practising

Marketing

Top Designs for February

February delivered love letters, zodiac moments and a whole week of oven cooking. From playful interactivity to considered storytelling, our top 5 this month prove that great ...

Marketing

Writing for email

19 tips to help you stand out in inboxes.

Marketing

The Drum Predictions 2026: Key takeaways for marketers

Last week, a few colleagues and I attended The Drum's 2026 Predictions event, to see what the industry's sharpest minds think is coming our way.

Marketing

Top Designs for January

January brought us a fresh start and some seriously smart email campaigns. From clever gamification to beautiful seasonal storytelling, this month's picks showcase brands ...

Marketing

How to Create Wrapped Emails That Customers Love

The inbox moment that customers actually look forward to? That's the magic of wrapped emails.

Marketing

Top Designs for December

December's inbox brought us everything from festive surprises to social responsibility campaigns. Let's unwrap them!

Marketing

From the desk of CRM Santa's elves

I probably shouldn't be writing this. Not because it's a secret, exactly, but more because CRM Santa doesn't love it when we interfere.

Marketing

A Conversation with Email Love: Building Email Programs That Subscribers Actually Want

Email marketing is one of the most powerful channels for building customer relationships, yet many brands still struggle to resonate.

Marketing

Email can create communities, not just customers

I want to talk about something that doesn't get enough airtime in our industry.

Marketing

The joy of wrapped emails

Wrapped emails, unwrapped. Every year, teams talk about wanting a Wrapped email. Not just because it looks good, but because of what it represents.

Marketing

In conversation with our DMA judge and council member: Scarlett

Copywriter Scarlett Soodhoo shares insights from judging the DMA Awards and the storytelling behind standout campaigns.

Marketing

Top Designs for November

November brought a brilliant blend of creativity to our inboxes. From clever concepts to beautifully crafted visual storytelling.

Marketing

The Black Friday survival guide nobody gives CRM teams

Your segments are built. Your journeys are mapped. Your subject lines have been A/B tested within an inch of their lives. But who's checking on you?

Marketing

In conversation with our DMA judge and council member: Rebecca

Strategist Rebecca Wallace shares insights on diversity, sustainability, and storytelling in marketing as a DMA Judge.

Marketing

Email Weekly wins two awards at the 2025 Lovie Awards

We're thrilled to announce that Email Weekly has won not one but two awards at the Lovie Awards in the Websites & Mobile Sites category.

Marketing

In conversation with our DMA judge and council member: Holly

Our Strategy Director, Holly Mander shares what makes award-winning campaigns stand out, from personalisation strategies to the power of data.

Marketing

Top Designs for October

October brought us everything from sustainability reports to tax trackers, with a healthy dose of festive prep thrown in for good measure.

Marketing

Behind the build: Halloween Email Weekly

How we conjured a personalised Halloween inbox experience.

Marketing

In conversation with our DMA judge and council member: Bex

Marketing Strategist Bex shares her experience on the DMA Email Council, from showcasing BBC's interactive campaigns to judging the 2025 DMA Awards.

Marketing

Confessions of an unsubscriber: It's not me, it's you

Dear Marketing Team, You might have noticed I’ve unsubscribed, so here’s the truth.

Code

Behind the build – the dial-up interactive Email Weekly

If you’re an Email Weekly subscriber, you’ll know we love an excuse to push the boundaries of what’s possible within email.

Marketing

ActionRocket wins Best Use of Dynamic Email Content at the 2025 OMMA Awards

We're so pleased that our partnership with TurboTax has been recognised at the 2025 OMMA Awards.

Marketing

How harnessing 90s energy can level up your email game

Dear Millennials (and some Gen Z).

Marketing

Top Designs for September

The shift in seasons theme has certainly reached a few of our top 5 this September.

Marketing

Celebrating International Podcast Day: Our top 10 podcast moments

Today marks International Podcast Day, and we're celebrating by reflecting on ActionRocket's journey across the podcast landscape.

Marketing

The rise of cause-first campaigns: why brands are putting purpose before profit

Doing good is good business. Conscious commerce calls for transparency, so let’s break down the jargon straight off the bat.

Marketing

What two volunteer days taught us about connection

September 5th is International Charity Day, created by the UN to shine a light on volunteering and the impact it has on communities.

Design

Top Designs for August

We kick off August’s round-up with a welcome email and round it off nicely with a renewal reminder.

Marketing

Top Designs for July

We were hoping for sunshine and joy in our inbox throughout this month of high summer, and boy, did we get it!

Marketing

EAA fines explained: What every marketer needs to know

What's changed?

Marketing

Email for all Webinar Q&A – European Accessibility Act

Email for All – Top tips to meet the new accessibility laws.

Marketing

Top Designs for June

We’ve been busy this June rifling through the digital post to pick out our hottest scroll-stoppers.

Marketing

How to write alt text correctly – with context!

What is alt text? Whenever an image appears online, there’s always a chance it won’t load or cannot be seen.

Marketing

Q&A with Inhabit: How businesses can thrive sustainably

As we attempt to figure out more of our own sustainability challenges, we sat down with Inhabit to ask them all about their sustainability consulting.

Marketing

Top Designs for May

May’s here – and as well as the sun (please stay) – it's brought some serious inbox energy.

Marketing

Staying connected: the power of in-person interaction

In an age where Zoom fatigue is real and inboxes are overflowing, it’s easy to forget the value of in-person connection.

Marketing

Ouai I landed my job at ActionRocket

Suppose you can do a presentation on any brand whose digital marketing you find inspiring, what would you choose?

Marketing

The shocking truth about clickbait subject lines!

Spoiler alert – there is no shocking truth about clickbait subject lines.

Design

Top Designs for April

It’s all about food, drink and beauty this month! These are the brands that impressed us with stand-out designs and killer copy throughout April.

Design

How we made a dazzlingly interactive Valentine’s email

Email Weekly is our agency’s digital playground. Every Friday, we give you the rundown on CRM and often experiment with new concepts along the way.

Marketing

A Collaboration with Alpaco: Creating Cool Emails

Alpaco is on a mission to change the game of email marketing, fostering a collaborative, flexible approach that sets its platform apart.

Design

Top Designs for March

We made it to March and that means spring is just around the corner – eek!

Marketing

A Conversation with EcoSend: Sustainable Email Marketing

When people think about sustainability in marketing, email isn't usually a channel that comes to mind.

Marketing

Empowering Women in Marketing: A Leadership Q&A with Lexi Clarke

ActionRocket Agency Director, Lexi Clarke, recently had the honour of joining the Women in Partnerships Panel at a highly anticipated Braze event.

Marketing

How Brands Leverage Community Platforms for Quiet Marketing Success

In today's digital landscape, community platforms like Discord and Reddit have become vibrant hubs where people come together to share interests.

Design

Top Designs for February

Whether you’ve been celebrating romance, friendship, or just your impeccable taste in email marketing, we have some top-tier campaigns to inspire you.

Marketing

Breaking Down Silos: The Power of Unified Multi-Channel CRM

The key to thriving in today’s hyper-connected digital landscape is having a presence across multiple platforms and an integrated customer journey.

Marketing

Single, Taken, or... Segmented? How to Know Where Your Customers Stand

Love is in the air, and while chocolates and roses are nice, customer relationships are what really matter for CRM managers.

Design

Top Designs for January

What’s the best way to get through a stormy slog of a month like January?

Marketing

That’s a wrap! The rise of the Year in Review marketing trend

Once the mince pies were devoured and the crackers all pulled, we slowly but surely returned to our inboxes.

Marketing

Dear Mr. K Dilkington: What Brands Can Learn About CRM Etiquette

Over the holidays, I found myself listening to some old episodes of the Ricky Gervais Show.

Marketing

The Top 5 Giving Tuesday Emails of 2024

Giving Tuesday is a global day of charity, designed to encourage generosity right after the consumer-heavy holidays of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Design

Top Designs for December

December is always a prime time for brands to connect with their audiences. From heartwarming storytelling to dazzling design.

Marketing

Loyalty trends in 2025: building connections that last

Loyalty isn’t what it used to be. Gone are the days when points and discounts were enough to keep customers engaged.

Marketing

500 weeks of email magic: a milestone celebration

Today marks the 500th edition of our beloved Email Weekly! A half-decade of developer experiments, wild code and mind-boggling creativity.

Marketing

Rethink Loyalty in 2025: It’s About Hearts, Not Wallets

These days, a typical shopping experience feels like juggling a wallet full of loyalty cards.

Marketing

How these brands are nailing their Black Friday CRM strategy

Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) is upon us—and, with it, a torrent of brand emails, push, and in-app messages battling for attention.

Design

Top Designs for November

In this month’s roundup we bring you Black Friday bangers, charity comms that put the ‘fun’ in fundraising, and the least salesy sales email ever.

Marketing

CRM as Poetry: The Art of Connecting with Customers

Much like poetry, CRM is an art form that thrives on rhythm, structure, and form.

Marketing

CRM Without the Scaries: 3 Tricks to Avoid & 3 Treats to Delight Your Customers

A dash of mischief in your CRM strategy might work wonders some of the time, but it’s your authenticity that brand lovers truly appreciate.

Marketing

CRM Trick or Treat: 3 Traps to Avoid & 3 Tips to Delight Your Customers

In the world of CRM, it’s easy to fall into bad habits that might spook your audience.

Marketing

Sweeten Up Your CRM Strategy: 3 Tricks to Avoid & 3 Treats to Delight Your Customers

Don’t worry, we’ve all been there. In the world of CRM, it’s easy to fall into bad habits that might spook your audience.

Marketing

From Sweet to Sweeter in CRM: 3 Tricks to Avoid & 3 Treats to Delight Your Customers

So, you’ve got a sweet strategy that’s winning brand lovers. But there are always opportunities to push the boundaries — and traps to watch out for.

Marketing

How does ActionRocket use AI for smart, ethical CRM?

AI in Digital CRM: Responsible Innovation at ActionRocket At ActionRocket, we’re all about pushing the boundaries to help brands excel.

Marketing

Everything you need to know about AI email inbox summaries

AI is summarising your emails, are you doing everything right to make sure it really shows what is in your email?

Marketing

Campaigns of Christmas past

Don’t worry if you’re not quite ready to dive into your planning just yet, we’ve pulled together a few of the festive campaigns we’ve worked on.

Marketing

Why Bloom & Wild’s CRM strategy is flourishing

As someone whose go-to gift idea is always flowers, Bloom & Wild has been on my radar for quite some time.

Design

Top Designs for October

The clocks have gone back, the air’s getting colder, and brat summer feels like a mere speck in the rearview mirror.

Marketing

P&Co: A masterclass in creating a purposeful CRM strategy

Creating an engaging and long-lasting brand is tough in today’s overcrowded attention economy.

Marketing

How Patagonia nails cause-first, product-second email design

Despite their simple designs, Patagonia’s emails are easily the thing that I’m most excited to see pop up in my inbox each week.

Design

Top Designs For August

We have an eclectic mix for you this month that features some of our most-loved topics. Food! The Olympics! The weather! Sounds good, right?

Design

Top Designs For September

Are you Team Black or Team Fluro? We’ve got many colours of the spectrum represented in this month’s rundown, including green in between!

Code

Browser support in 2024

ActionRocket is known for pushing the boundaries of what is possible in CRM, especially email.

Design

Top Designs For July

It’s been a big month for big events in the UK, so we have some aptly themed emails in our top picks for July.

Marketing

5 top tips for powerful push notifications

Push notifications. Those annoying little banners that pop up on your phone, or a valuable tool in your digital CRM strategy?

Marketing

How Moonpig are nailing their CRM Strategy

In the highly competitive world of personalised greeting cards and gifts, Moonpig really stands out with their exceptional CRM strategy.

Marketing

What’s up with WhatsApp? How marketing has become more personable

In a marketing game dominated by social commerce, WhatsApp has emerged as a vital player in reshaping how businesses engage with consumers.

Marketing

What Duolingo can teach brands about multi-channel marketing

Most of us have dipped our toes into the world of language-learning app Duolingo.

Marketing

How Octopus Energy are nailing their CRM strategy

I can’t tell you quite when it started, but over the past few years, I’ve noticed a background hum about Octopus Energy.

Marketing

5 timeless principles for crafting razor-sharp marketing copy

The digital age has transformed communication and the written word is where most comms are happening.

Design

Top Designs For June

It’s all about good old, straight-to-the-point product promo with this month’s email content.

Marketing

A marketer’s go-to glossary of CRM terms

Have you ever been in a team meeting where the marketing acronyms are flying around, but you’re too afraid to pipe up and ask what they mean?

Marketing

The Brands Going Beyond for Pride Month

It’s fantastic to see brands displaying support during Pride Month, yet true allyship shines through ongoing commitment and tangible contributions.

Design

Top Designs For May

We’re in strategic heaven this month, with our picks showcasing welcome journeys, loyalty schemes and an awareness week.

Marketing

Must-track email metrics for marketers

After weeks of planning and building your email campaign, including ticking off rounds of stakeholder amends, it's finally time to hit send.

Marketing

Why Fred again is the master of multi-channel marketing

You don’t have to be a big Electronic Dance Music (EDM) fan to have noticed one DJ’s name popping up on our screens again and again and again.

Marketing

4 tips to staying ahead as a marketer in an ever-changing digital world

So you’ve just about got to grips with the latest updates in Digital Marketing then Adam Mosseri or Google comes along with new developments.

Design

Mastering in-app messaging: 5 top design tips

5 top tips for designing knock-out in-app messaging, from ActionRocket's Head of Design.

Marketing

Top 5 ways to embrace change in an ever-changing digital world

Change in some aspects of life is rarely viewed as positive, BUT change in business should always be embraced.

Design

Top Designs For April

It’s the second month of Spring and April is Apriling.

Marketing

5 reasons your brand needs multi-channel CRM

The digital world is changing fast. Platforms we once thought were just a means to get through lockdown, have become a powerhouse of content.

Marketing

Email Trends on World Earth Day

Earth Day was a prime opportunity for marketers to engage and resonate with their email subscribers by igniting a conversation on about our planet.

Design

Top Designs For March

Can you believe it’s March?

Design

Top Designs For February

Ah, February. The month of love. We’ve gone all in for Valentine’s with this month’s round-up, so if you’re not into it then look away now.

Design

Top Designs For January

To brighten this month that can feel very long, we thought we’d kick off our rundown with some glitz and shine.

Marketing

5 Top tips to give your emails a fresh start this New Year

So, it’s 2024 and one of your New Year’s resolutions is (obviously) to nail your email marketing–but where to start?

Marketing

10 Newsletters to subscribe to in 2024

In the fast-paced world of marketing, where strategies evolve faster than a chatbot's reply, staying ahead of the curve is non-negotiable.

Marketing

Top Designs for December

Unsurprisingly, gifting and food feature heavily in our December top 5. Perhaps more surprisingly, pizza features twice.

Marketing

Top Designs for November

It's official: Christmas is approaching and there’s no ignoring it. But before that, November brings the big focus of none other than Black Friday.

Design

How to make your Christmas marketing sparkle

For the average Joe/Joanne, Autumn is probably too early to start talking openly about the C-word.

Marketing

Behind the build: Email Weekly Halloween

If you’re one of the lucky subscribers to receive our agency newsletter Email Weekly, you’ll have seen our Halloween email sent out in October.

Marketing

Get your emails out of the dark this Halloween

As the season of Ghosts and Ghouls lands, there's no reason why your business’s emails should live in the shadows too.

Marketing

Top Designs for October

We have lots of beautifully designed, image-led emails featured this month.

Design

Top Designs for September

It’s September; summer is ebbing away and autumn’s creeping in. Out with the old and in with the new.

Marketing

Top Designs for August

There’s been a lot going on this summer, and these 5 brands have worked hard to stand out in our inbox. With timely content and clever animation a-plenty, enjoy our rundown of ...

Marketing

Top Designs for July

This month we’re visiting an island in the US state of Washington and making a sweet little stop in Weddingville.

Marketing

Barbie’s Marketing Dreamscape

You may or may not be a fan of Mattel’s pretty pink doll, but it’s almost impossible to not have been caught up in the Barbie buzz.

Marketing

Augmented Reality: How Does it Work?

Being a sci-fi fan I've always thought of what life would be like living in a high tech world.

Marketing

Top Designs for June

This month it’s all sunshine and rainbows! But actually…it’s not just that.

Code

AMP for email - What, How and When?

Email marketing is evolving, and AMP for Email represents the next frontier in creating dynamic, interactive email experiences.

Marketing

Top Designs for May

Oh yes, it’s that time of the year! The month of the King’s Coronation and the month of May the 4th Be With You.

Code

Code More Accessible Emails

The Email Markup Consortium shared their Email Accessibility Report - over 303,847 emails which were tested by Parcel’s accessibility checker.

Marketing

Tools to Help You Create Accessible Content

If making your content accessible is new to you, don’t worry - you don’t have to do it alone!

Marketing

Writing for email: A Copywriter's Accessibility Guide

We want everyone to read the copy in our emails without unnecessary effort.

Code

Celebrating the 2023 Marketing Champions

Our talented Head of Development Jay become a recognised Salesforce Marketing Champion!

Design

A Designers Accessibility Checklist

This month we’re taking a closer look into the importance of email accessibility.

Marketing

Brands That Are Nailing Cross-Channel Marketing

Humans are beautifully complex beings. And what makes us even more so, is that we’re all different and unique.

Marketing

10 QA Tips For Writing Your Email Copy

A QA (Quality Assurance) checklist is always useful to complete at the end of an email copy task.

Design

Top Designs for April

This month we’re bringing you some brilliant examples of brands using interactivity within email.

Marketing

Is AI the future of Email Marketing?

The popularisation of AI technology - particularly the emergence of ChatGPT has made waves in the email world.

Marketing

A beginners guide to subject lines and preheaders

We all enjoy a beautifully crafted email. Stunning design - yes please. Fun interactivity - always! Clever copy - a must.

Code

Getting Started: Coding Accessible Emails

There are a million different ways to code an email.

Design

Top Designs for March

We have a great mix of wonderful emails to share with you this month.

Marketing

International Women’s Day: Striving for empowerment through email

International Women’s Day is a widely celebrated annual awareness day that encourages education and equality for women across the globe.

Design

Top Designs for February

This month we are celebrating brands who have used Valentines Day as part of their email campaign ammo.

Marketing

8 Valentines Gifts for the Geek in Your Life

With Valentines Day just around the corner we thought we’d help to make it a little easier for you and the geek in your life.

Marketing

Top Designs for January

2022, you were a year of brilliant, innovative email campaigns. We enjoyed ploughing through our inboxes each month to be delighted.

Marketing

10 Steps to nailing a creative brief template

Last week we joined the Parcel team who hosted their first ever virtual conference, Parcel Unpacked (see the full video here!).

Marketing

5 ways email smashes other marketing channels

When people think about great web advertising, they conjure up images of snazzy social media campaigns and slickly produced YouTube videos.

Marketing

Email Marketing in 2023

The festive period is now over, the decks are down, and Cadbury’s Mini Eggs are already on the supermarket shelves.

Marketing

Why personalisation in email will always be important

Marketers can get so wrapped up in tactics and goals that they forget how far being kind and taking a genuine interest in someone actually goes.

Design

Top Designs for December

In some respects, the festive season is a twinkly marketing dreamscape.

Marketing

Top Designs for November

This month we have a great range of inspiring emails for you. From brands who have nailed their Black Friday messaging and excelled at pushing interactivity.

Design

Top Designs for October

Expect a fair amount of ghoulish gifs and terrifying taglines in October’s round-up. It would be rude not to in the month of Halloween, right?

Marketing

Email Design Quick Wins

Making your brand identity work within the context of email can be hard work.

Design

Digital Design Trends of 2022

The design world is showing us some serious impactful trends. It is certainly paving the way for some exciting things to look out for in 2023.

Design

Top Designs for September

The darker autumnal days are officially drawing in, so grab a warming cup of coffee and take five minutes.

Design

10 Tips When Combining Fonts

When it comes to fonts the choices are endless, each weight, style and size has the ability to create a completely different design.

Design

Top Designs for August

This month’s round-up includes good books 📚, good ice lollies 🍭, and good tips for your emails! 📩

Marketing

How is Your ESP Reporting Opens?

Email marketers often invest significant time and resource into designing and coding large master template.

Design

Top Designs for July

We’ve searched our inboxes and rounded up our favourite emails that we have received throughout the month of July.

Design

What’s Your Type?

With email, much like editorial design, type and font play a big role in how the overall message is received.

Marketing

The Top 5 Grammar Rules That can be Broken for Winning Email Copy

To get a direct response from an email it requires direct response copy.

Design

Email Design Systems: Bringing Order to Chaos

Firstly, let me explain what an email design system, or an EDS as we call it (sorry for the industry jargon), actually means.

Marketing

Onboarding Emails – the Welcome Journey that Really Counts

An onboarding email, after a new customer buys a product or signs up to a service, is often the first communication that is actively viewed.

Design

A Designers’ Tips to Overcoming Creative Block

It can be hard to find inspiration sometimes.

Design

Top Designs for June

With this month being June, the official start of summer and the midway point of the year, we thought we’d do this round-up a little differently!

Marketing

The Power of The Preheader

Preview text (also referred to as ‘the preheader’) is the snippet of copy that appears after the email subject line in a recipient’s inbox view.

Marketing

Is your email campaign relevant enough?

To achieve optimum email open and click-thru, being individually relevant is the target to aim for. Delivering the right information, at the right moment, to the right person, and ...

Marketing

The Three Amigos: Copy, Design, and Code

Copy, design, and code go hand in hand. We like to view it as the whole package, a well-balanced combination of visual and verbal information. At ActionRocket we specialise in ...

Design

Top Designs for May

Our May inbox has been full of fashion retailers. Showing us their summer collections of suits, sneakers, and sportswear!

Marketing

Spotify Playlists for Creative Inspiration

Finding inspiration to create can sometimes be a struggle. That’s why I have complied a list of my top 10 playlists (and albums) that I listen to to help me boost my creativity. ...

Marketing

Top tips on developing a strong tone of voice for your brand

Creating content is not just about what you say, but how you say it and whether it’s through your website, social media, or email, having a consistent and recognisable tone of ...

Design

Top Designs for April

Check out our favourite emails we’ve received throughout April.

Marketing

10 Email Marketing Experts Predict the Future of Email in 2032

Our #CheersTo10Years campaign has seen us dig deep into our email archives. Prompting us to look back through the past 10 years of email, industry innovations, where ActionRocket ...

Marketing

Our Most Loved Email Campaigns

As you know this month is pretty special for us, and we are celebrating with the launch of our exciting competition. Where we are asking you to tell us about your favourite email ...

Marketing

How email marketing copy has evolved over the last 10 years

10 Years of Email Marketing copy - How has it evolved? While email marketing is counting its 44th year in existence, at ActionRocket we are celebrating our 10th year of creating ...

Marketing

How it all began: An interview with Elliot Ross

Elliot Ross is the founder and managing director of ActionRocket, the email veteran behind the successful digital agency that we are proud to be today. Since we’re dedicating this ...

Design

Top Designs for March

Check out the top email designs that have landed in our inbox over the past month.

Marketing

Top tips on writing winning email copy

Email copy – It’s not just words. An email needs to stop you in your tracks. It needs to cut through the noise of our busy everyday lives, capture your attention and provide a ...

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Creative of the Month: October

Code

Fixing white lines in Outlook: the 2026 guide

Marketing

Braze meets Salesforce: what the acquisition means for you

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There’s a traitor in your CRM: how to stay faithful to your customers

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What Newzoo’s global games market data means for CRM

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The Black Friday survival guide nobody gives CRM teams

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Nudgestock 2026: what trust means for CRM

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Email marketing podcasts that are worth a listen

Code

iOS 27 and email: what marketers need to know

Marketing

Creative of the Month: September

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Omnichannel loyalty CRM: how to create connected customer journeys

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Creative of the Month: August

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Why your Wrapped campaign should start now

Marketing

New job, new tools, one AI colleague

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Meet our Charity of the Year: Felix

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Creative of the Month: July 2026

Code

Making video work in email

Marketing

How did we do it? Video in email special

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Video in email

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Why RCS is finally viable for mobile messaging in the US

Marketing

Creative of the Month: June 2026

Design

Salesforce Connections 2026

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How Nordic Game showed us the games industry needs email

Marketing

The psychology of the inbox: designing emails for tired brains

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Salesforce community comes together ahead of World Tour

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What Meta Conversations 2026 taught me about the future of customer engagement

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The human-centred approach to AI adoption

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My five favourite conversations from Inbox Expo 2026

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Creative of the Month: May 2026

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What is RCS? The future of mobile messaging

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Braze City x City London: AI is everywhere, but human creativity still matters

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Why KitKat knows how to make the most of a break

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10 insights on how to use AI to sound more human, not less

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Creative of the Month: April 2026

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