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If you’re a long-time user of EmailOctopus you’ll likely have copied across our HTML sign up form to your website or used our Zapier/Upscribe integrations to make it easy for users to subscribe to your marketing newsletters. For newer users, however, integrating with another 3rd party service or fiddling around with HTML can be time-consuming [...]
We’ve just launched a couple of minor updates to the platform to help your email marketing workflow Mobile preview With over 53% of emails now opened on mobile devices, it’s more important than ever to ensure that your mobile works well cross device.All of our inbuilt templates are responsive, meaning they’ll render beautifully when opened [...]

Upscribe, a service to create embeddable sign-up forms for Medium, has recently released an integration with EmailOctopus. This means that now EmailOctopus users can collect sign-ups on their own Medium articles. Here’s a quick walkthrough of how you can get started: 1. Create your Upscribe form Go to upscri.be to create your Medium embeddable form (here’s [...]

We’re excited to announce the launch of our official integration with Zapier! Zapier is the simplest way to connect EmailOctopus with hundreds of web services for thousands of use-cases. Thanks to Zapier, EmailOctopus now has simple integrations with Salesforce, Gmail, Zoho, Paypal, Gravity Forms and a whole lot more. All of these integrations require almost no technical [...]
We know that previously getting your images into EmailOctopus was, quite frankly, a bit of a pain. Today’s update will now allow you to upload any JPEG, GIF, PNG or SVG straight to the EmailOctopus platform when editing a campaign or template. Using the image upload function is easy. Just select the insert image option [...]
EmailOctopus works exclusively with Amazon SES to deliver your marketing emails. By default, Amazon SES sends your email from IP addresses that you share with other SES and EmailOctopus customers. For some high-volume senders though, you may wish to have more ownership over deliverability. As of today, you can now – for $29 a month – [...]
At EmailOctopus, our mission is to help make email marketing more accessible than ever. Today we’re taking another big step towards this, with the launch of our latest feature, Templates. We’ve reworked the campaign creation When creating a campaign in the EmailOctopus platform you’ll now see a multi-step process. The 2nd step of the campaign creation is [...]
You may well have noticed that things are beginning to look a little different when creating a campaign. We’ve recently started rolling out changes to our email creation process, which apply to both campaigns and automation. Improved send-speeds We’ve completed re-worked much of our internal sending process. The impact on you, means that campaigns will be [...]
Today I’m thrilled to announce the launch of our new feature, Automation. Over the past few months we’ve listened and heard about many of your challenges within email marketing. We heard from many of your that the ability to send relevant messages at the right time to your users, was something which was difficult when using [...]