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JupiterResearch: RSS will not have a significant effect to e-mail marketing

  • Artigo

According to DMNews, JupiterResearch claims RSS will not have a significant effect as a supplemental alternative to e-mail marketing. (Via eINFO)

""Most marketers remain skeptical of using RSS as a mechanism to supplement their e-mail marketing newsletter content," states the report written by JupiterResearch's David Daniels, Zori Bayriamova and Eric T. Peterson."

From the Jupiter report...:

"45 percent of marketers have no plans to deploy RSS to supplement e-mail, and only 5 percent currently do so. The findings were based on a recent executive survey."

In December a WordBiz research report claimed that although 74% of email marketers are 'familiar' with the term 'RSS', only about 37% had downloaded an RSS feed reader subscribed to a web-based reader, and a mere 23% read blogs via an RSS subscription.

Of course, which channels to use depends on the demographics of your audience, but having 45% of the professional marketing population saying they have no plans to utilise RSS is due to ignorance, not stupidity. Clearly, there is more education to do. A lot more

Update...

Here's Rok Hrastnik's bottom line...and I agree.

"While the report does serve' some relevant obstacles to wide-spread marketing adoption of RSS, it mostly shows a poor understanding of RSS by marketers."

Seth Godin quips:

"New Jupiter study shows that big time marketers aren't excited about it....Which gives the rest of us more time to get it right. Hurry, before the spammers show up!"

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2005
    JupiterResearch has released the results of a survey claiming RSS will not have a significant effect as a supplemental alternative to e-mail marketing. Most marketers remain skeptical of using RSS as a mechanism to supplement their e-mail marketing newsletter content45...
  • Anonymous
    March 21, 2005
    Marketers will start taking more notice of RSS when it is incorporated into Browsers and email progs - as it is alreayd in the open source world, like Firefox.

    Hi Alex!

    Mike
  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2005
    The Jupiter RSS report is creating quite a response from marketers and publishers already using RSS.Here's a quick run-down on the conversations going around the Web ...