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Using Animation in Your Email Marketing « Uk Email — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:06:37 +0000

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By: Scott Hardigree

Scott Hardigree — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:54:11 +0000

Thanks for the feedback Anna. Great work too!

By: Anna Yeaman

Anna Yeaman — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:48:03 +0000

The Twilight email was an early video Gif we created. We’d seen another company use the .jpg extension and thought we would see if it has any benefits. It doesn’t, so we stopped using it soon after…our guess is they were trying to mask the fact that it was a Gif.

By: Scott Hardigree

Scott Hardigree — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:27:46 +0000

Please be sure to share it once it’s live.

By: Zack Hanebrink

Zack Hanebrink — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:23:05 +0000

Great post! I thought I was a decent html email designer until I read this post. Somehow I missed the boat on email animation, I didn’t realize you could do that. I’m going to give it a try on one of my future campaigns.

By: Serina X. Rios

Serina X. Rios — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:30:48 +0000

Hello. Good info. Thank you. Well that makes sense. As many others working as an online marketer, I prefer Outlook as my email client and with the help of Email Sorter Wizard, an Outlook add-on, I sort all my email. I am sure people will get great information from your blog.

By: Scott Hardigree

Scott Hardigree — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:16:04 +0000

That’s a good question RS. When I look at the image property ‘name’ it reads jpeg BUT under image’ type’ it reads “GIF image (animated, 87 frames)”. Your assumptions are probably correct…improper naming (e.g. when I attempt to save the image it gives me “twisa.jpg.gif” as the default. Thanks for your two cents.

By: RS

RS — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:23:55 +0000

I wonder why anyone would create a JPG file, like in the Twilight example? JPG files are not animated. That means that the wrong extension was used in the file name. Some page browsers will look at the headers inside the file to render the image, but email clients will definitely have problems rendering the image. My guess is that it was a human error, or trying to make it look like something that it is not. As an email, that message has terrible expectations as it is basically all images. The idea is good, but the implementation is not. Sorry, my two cents.

By: Steve Yakoban

Steve Yakoban — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:06:09 +0000

It’s a nice idea with the only issue being Outlook. It is strange though, that something so simplistic really will motivate people more.

By: Scott Hardigree

Scott Hardigree — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:34:33 +0000

Thanks for the comments Scott. Much appreciated!