It remains to be seen how Verizon’s take over of Yahoo email And AOL will effect deliverability. Verizon Email Yahoo and AOL: The Great Email Conglomeration When sending in high-volume you should already be segmenting your data by mailbox provider, so this is just one more little “i” to dot and “t” to cross. They’re either AOL or whatever the subscriber choose. You’ll also need to be careful with all the addresses because, moving forward, all “verizon” email addresses will be sub-accounts. Show folks what they need to do to stay in touch. Mention the recent changes going on with Verizon and AOL. Try addressing these recipients directly. However why shoot yourself in the deliverability foot if you don’t have to? Obviously sending to dead email addresses will cause hard bounces that can negatively impact your sending reputation.Ĭomb through your lists and segment out all the addresses. In the big picture, the total number of email addresses out there is a drop in the bucket.
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Unfortunately, password recovery is impossible if the migration wasn’t initiated before April. Verizon is giving customers 6 months of inactivity before they hit “delete.” If users didn’t migrate their email to AOL Mail before April 1st, they still have 6 months to migrate their email IF they remember their Verizon email login password. Transfer to any other mailbox provider (like Outlook or Gmail) and keep the addresses.Transfer on over to AOL and keep their address, but will need to login to AOL Mail for access.
Verizon has already begun notifying customers, in batches, that they have 30 days to get right with the email gods. If you’re already on top of your hygiene game, you should be able to weather the immediate transition well. That means about two-and-a-half million email accounts are still in play. It is believed that just over half of the email addresses have been active with the last 30 days. How will Verizon’s email migration to AOL and control over Yahoo impact you as an email marketer? It’s a tall order considering that Facebook alone is said to control 15% of digital ad market and has all kinds of insanely granular details about its users. The goal is to become a dominate, global in-box provider. To compete with the big boys, Google and Facebook, Verizon email is taking big steps. You’ve got Verizon Mail! Can you hear me now Yahoo? Now, finally, in 2017 the rubber is hitting the road in email land. To join in on the mobile advertising action, Verizon paid $4.4 billion for Yahoo (despite a massive data breach in 2013) and $4.8 billion for AOL. Verizon bought AOL and bits of Yahoo back in 2015.