📚 Why Can't Email Be Fun?

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I don't know about you, but 2024 has been my year to purge my email inbox. I am unsubscribing left and right and it feels so good. As a communications professional, we want people to get excited about and read our emails. Often the reality is that your email is wedged between a fundraising email from a candidate you've never heard of and Amazon's third email of the day. So today, I'm pondering how email can be a little more fun and inviting to people who are email-fatigued. Read on for more...

On Tap This Week
🌱 Bringing Fun into email
🌺 Bonus Summit Tickets
🌱 Gen Z digital usage report
🌱 YouTube and TikTok's fight heats up
🎪 Expanding Email Deliverability

If my inbox has anything to say, it's very clearly an election year. When I started the year, my inbox was overflowing with candidates from all levels flooding my inbox with fundraising requests.

Democracy Needs You!!
Sam, Can We Count On You?
DEADLINE Tonight!
We're Behind on Our Goal!

Back then, I was filled with dread when I went to open my inbox. I didn't want to comb through the alarmist subject lines to find the one or two emails of quality that were buried. That's when I decided to go on an email-cleansing detox. I spent a few minutes each morning unsubscribing to emails I didn't want anymore.

What has remained in my inbox are mostly emails of quality from a few choice candidates, organizations, and causes. The same theme that emerges from all of them is that I want to open their emails. I enjoy seeing what they are sending me.

I won't reveal my full list, but one notable communicator that remains in my inbox is AOC. It's no secret that Alexandra Ocasio Cortez is a great communicator, but it's also true that the Democratic Party should be learning a lot more from her about how to connect with voters.

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• 📚 Where Gen Z Spends Their Time - New Morning Consult Poll research shows how online Gen Z is and the platforms and content they like. This generation’s habits shifts tech and then the rest of our habits too.
  • 🤓 The Root 🌱 - Of particular interests is the differences in men vs. women. Gen Z men love YouTube and Discord, while women are TikTok and Instagram enthusiasts.
• 📈 Sports Have Landed on Streaming - Peacock’s streaming-only NFL Wild Card game drove a record 2.8 million sign ups to the service. They will also be hosting the Paris Olympics this summer and Netflix have a new WWE deal.
  • 🤓 The Root 🌱 - While this has nothing to do with social change, this is a big shift. Sports have been why people don’t leave cable. If they can get live sports on streaming, we might see cable crumble faster than we thought.
• 📚 YouTube Shorts Expands Music - YouTube is punching at TikTok again. This time, they are expanding their music options on Shorts after TikTok lost its deal with Universal Music Group.
  • 🤓 The Root 🌱 - Keep in mind that these platforms are all built on capitalism. At the end if the day, they are mean to make money and will not always last. Backup your videos and data regularly.

And that's a wrap on this week’s newsletter! We hope you found this helpful in your work. If you have any topics you want covered or have any questions, please respond to let us know.

In Solidarity,
Sam Chavez
Roots of Change Founder

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