{"id":61084,"date":"2023-02-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litmus.com\/?p=61084"},"modified":"2025-10-08T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T21:15:37","slug":"this-month-in-email-february-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litmus.com\/blog\/this-month-in-email-february-2023","title":{"rendered":"This Month in Email: A Recap of Email Marketing in February 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t
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Welcome back to This Month in Email\u2014our new monthly series about the latest happenings around the world of email marketing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read on for the biggest headlines shaping the email industry in February 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  • \ud83d\udcf0 News headlines<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  • \ud83d\udcca Email Client Market Share<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  • \u2728 Community happenings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  • \ud83e\udd16 The world of artificial intelligence (AI)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \ud83d\udcf0 News headlines<\/span><\/h2>\n
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    • Gmail released a new annotation feature<\/a><\/strong>,<\/strong> allowing email senders to display product carousels in the Promotions tab.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Microsoft Outlook<\/a><\/strong> users were flooded with spam<\/a> due to broken email filters.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Bad ads<\/a><\/strong> are swamping social media platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Firefox for Android<\/a><\/strong> adds an extension for hiding email addresses.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • A late-night email from Google<\/a> <\/strong>terminates 453 employees in India.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Several students at Stanford<\/a><\/strong> received fraudulent emails about violating the university\u2019s honor code.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Sendmarc raises $7M<\/a><\/strong> to offer email protection from phishing attacks and email impersonation.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • AI-powered sales email coaching platform<\/a><\/strong> Lavender<\/span> raised $13.2M for its AI-powered email marketing engine.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Criminals continue to use PayPal accounts<\/a><\/strong> to generate invoices and send phishing emails.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • MailGuard warns Australian<\/a><\/strong> workers about a DocuSign phishing email scam.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Google will apply Gmail spam detection<\/a><\/strong> to political campaign emails, once again. <\/span>(January)<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      \u2728 Community happenings<\/span><\/h2>\n

      ANA Email Evolution Conference<\/b><\/a> took place on February 7th-8th, both virtually and in-person in Washington D.C., featuring speakers from leading brands and presentations from subject matter experts on how to leverage email to grow their business, engage with customers, and expand their knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n