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Cold Email Statistics Based on Sending Over 20M Cold Emails

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Real platform-wide data across millions of sends, kept current, so you can see where your own numbers sit against a large sample instead of one blog's opinion. It also tracks how reply rates have declined in recent years as inboxes get noisier, useful context so you do not panic over a number that would have looked great a few years ago.

  • Average reply rates have fallen industry-wide as inbox saturation and spam filtering have tightened.
  • Campaigns run with tight targeting and real personalization still hit 10 percent plus, well above average.
  • Personalization has one of the largest measurable effects on reply rate of any single lever.

The question it answers

  1. What's a good response rate for cold email, and how do I know if mine is broken?

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