Digital + Social

Matt Blumberg, chief executive of e-mail deliverability firm Return Path, has been named this year

More direct marketing activity in the United Kingdom was conducted via e-mail than postal mail during the fourth quarter of 2006, reported the Financial Times. It’s the first time that direct e-mail has surpassed postal mail use in the U.K.

A federal judge in Seattle last week awarded e-mail marketer Virtumundo $111,440 in legal fees and expenses against serial anti-spam litigant James Gordon.

ExactTarget has developed a tool that allows marketers to monitor and manage the content of transactional e-mails such as shipping and purchase confirmations.

Dave Lewis, vice president of market and product strategy for e-mail technology provider StrongMail has resigned to take a position at another unnamed company, Direct has learned.

GovDelivery, the e-mail service provider that delivers messages to U.S. citizens on behalf of more than half of all federal agencies, has begun sending using Goodmail

A new study outlines the ideal habits, actions that are out of favor, and emerging best practices among retailers that offer e-mail alerts.

Fifty three percent of Americans with mobile devices admit to having checked e-mail while on the pot, according to a recent study by AOL.

Email Experience Council founder Jeanniey Mullen last week sent out a call to action for people on her e-mail list to smack ClickZ columnist Al DiGuido around, claiming he disparaged the EEC in a column.

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