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Email client market share as of February 2015

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Email client usage worldwide, collected from 1.1 billion email opens.
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About these stats
This leaderboard of the most popular webmail, desktop, and mobile email clients is compiled from data collected worldwide by Litmus Email Analytics, and displays up-to-date figures for the top 10 email clients. These statistics are automatically updated each month, and are current as of 1 February 2015— 1 March 2015.

Email Client Market Share

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Use Mobile Email Content to Make Money

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Whether you’re an e-commerce business directly generating sales from email sends or a B2B company sending a dedicated marketing offer to increase lead flow, mobile-friendly emails can benefit your bottom line.

Now I’m not going to lie, optimizing for email can take some time. But investing just a little more time when preparing your mobile campaigns can go a long way in benefiting your business.

  1. 56% of shoppers are likely to make a purchase via a mobile app in the next year. (Source: Adobe)
  2. 69% of shoppers are influenced to make a purchase on mobile by company emails. (Source: Adobe)
  3. 90% of consumers who have joined mobile loyalty programs feel they have gained value from them. (Source: Zoomerang)
  4. Special offers (27%), vouchers (21%), and real-time tracking (21%) are most preferred email types to receive on mobile. (Source: Edialog)
  5. Nearly two-thirds of consumers subscribed to mobile marketing indicate that they have made a purchase as a result of receiving a highly relevant mobile message. (Source: Responsys)
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Businesses Need to Prepare for Mobile Emails

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Beat the competition with mobile optimized emails.
Despite rising consumption of email on mobile devices, many businesses refuse to address this shift. The technical and expertise changes needed to become an early adopter prevents marketers from investing in a mobile email strategy. Don’t let that be you! Mobile phone owners aren’t starring emails on their phone to be read later. Once they read it once on their phone, they’re done.

You can either be another unoptimized sender, or you can get on the mobile trend before the competition does and start winning deals faster through mobile.

  1. Only 11.84% of newsletters use responsive design techniques to optimize their layouts for mobile devices. (Source: Equinux)
  2. 24% of companies aren’t optimizing their email creative for mobile viewers in any way. (Source: Experian)
  3. 39% of marketers have no strategy for mobile email. (Source: eConsultancy)
  4. Over 95% of emails are only opened on one device. Very few users open emails on mobile first and save for desktop later. (Source: knotice)
  5. 70% of consumers delete emails immediately that don’t render well on a mobile device. (Source: bluehornet)
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Mobile Email Usage Is Increasing

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Prepare mobile-friendly emails.
More and more mobile users are accessing emails through their mobile devices. In order to effectively see results from your email marketing campaigns, you’ll need to ensure each of those emails is ready for reading by the 74% of smartphone owners who use their mobile phones to check email.

Interesting Stats:

  1. 74% of smartphone owners use their devices to check their email. (Source: Gartner)
  2. Mobile now makes up the majority of email opens at 51%. (Source: Litmus)
  3. 68% of Gmail and Yahoo opens are coming from mobile devices. (Source: Litmus)
  4. By the end of 2018, worldwide mobile email users are expected to total over 2.2 billion. By this time, 80% of email users are expected to access their email accounts via a mobile device. (Source: Radicati)