The AI Standing Between You and Your Subscribers — with Chad S. White
About this episode
Your email can pass every authentication check, land in the inbox, and still never get seen the way you wrote it.
Chad S. White has written nearly 4,000 articles on email marketing. He's the author of Email Marketing Rules and GVP of CRM Strategy at Zeta Global. And he says we've entered a new age of deliverability — one where inbox providers rewrite your subject lines, summarize your content, and rank your emails before a single subscriber opens them.
For publishers who mail daily and monetize the send itself, that's not a feature update. That's existential.
We dig into where the standard deliverability playbook still holds for high-frequency senders — and where it breaks completely.
In this episode:
- ▪Why the 2024–2026 wave is the biggest structural shift email has ever had
- What Apple Intelligence and Gemini are actually rewriting — and the "game of telephone" between you and your subscriber
- The new reputation loop: getting penalized for engagement outcomes the AI shaped, not you
- How to write subject lines and structure emails so the AI summarizes you accurately
- Whether opens are finally dead as a metric — and what France's regulators just decided about open tracking
- The Gmail Newsletters tab rumor, the Promotions tab evidence, and why "more opens = more clicks" is magical thinking
- Where standard frequency guidance actively hurts daily senders
- Why your most marginal subscribers can't be allowed to price your best subscribers out of the inbox
- Sponsored sends in an AI-summarized inbox: why image-only ads are now invisible
- Five years out: when your audience is half humans, half machines reading on their behalf
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📕 Email Marketing Rules: https://www.emailmarketingrules.com
💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chadswhite
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