Email Statistics - Part 2

This part 2 of Email Statistics 2008 - Part 1. Just a reminder that for me email is one of my important tool for my photographic business. I use it all day long. I get around 1,500 emails/day. Yes that's one thousand five hundred emails per day, with 1,200 to 1,300 as spam.

Statistic Source
35 emails per day for consumers Jupiter Research
100 emails per day for business people Radicati Group
27% of all emails are opt-in email campaigns as percentage of total inbox email for business people Jupiter Research
70%+ of end-users claim emails increase their productivity Datamonitor
9% of end-users prefer getting marketing messages via SMS (text) instead of email Exact Target
87% of end-users online time is spent reading their emails Jupiter Research
64% of key decision makers are viewing all emails on Blackberries and other PDAs Marketing Sherpa
60% of people who read an email only read 50% of the message ClickZ
86% of Email users have given their address to marketers Scarborough

To me the most important stat is:

  • 60% of people who read an email only read half of the message

Also see: Email Statistics 2008 - Part 1