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Why PulseDAQ

Subscribing shows you a few inboxes. PulseDAQ shows you the market.

Signing up to your competitors’ newsletters tells you what they sent. It doesn’t tell you whether that’s normal for your sector, what everyone else is doing, or what you should send next. PulseDAQ reads hundreds of thousands of email newsletters across every sector and turns them into one report every Monday, with the comparison, the gaps and the ideas already worked out.

Why not just subscribe?

An inbox tells you what a few brands did. It can’t tell you what to do.

Most teams already subscribe to a few competitors. Here’s what that leaves out.

Subscribing yourself
PulseDAQ
Who you seeThe handful of brands you already know aboutEvery brand we track in your sector, including the ones you’ve never heard of
The workAn inbox someone has to read, file and rememberEvery email read and tagged for offer, product, timing and tone
ContextNo way to tell if what they do is normal or unusualBenchmarked against hundreds of thousands of newsletters
What it showsWhat has already been sentWhat hasn’t: the dates, offers and themes nobody has claimed
IdeasWhatever the team comes up with on the dayIdeas drawn from what’s working in your sector and in others
What you get

Compare the whole sector. Spot the gaps. Get ideas you can use.

01

Compare yourself to the whole sector

Your named competitors are one line. Every brand we track in your sector is the other. See whether you’re sending more or less, discounting harder or softer, and whether a rival’s move is theirs alone or happening everywhere.

Sector Zeitgeist and Global Zeitgeist show what’s changing in your sector and across all of email.

You against the sectorFashion · 412 brands
Emails per week
You
4
Competitors
7
Sector
9
Emails with an offer
You
25%
Competitors
48%
Sector
58%
Average discount
You
–
Competitors
22%
Sector
24%
02

Spot the gaps before anyone else

Every report looks at the days ahead: occasions, TV, sport, weather and what people are searching for. For each one we show whether anyone in your sector has claimed it yet, so you can see where there’s room to go first.

The same goes for offers, products and themes your sector is quiet on.

The next 7 daysWho has claimed what
Fri 2
National Poetry DayOccasion
Open
Sat 3
Strictly: week 3TV
2 competitors
Mon 5
First frost forecastWeather
Open
Thu 8
Rugby World Cup QFSport
1 competitor
Sat 10
World Mental Health DayOccasion
Open
03

Get ideas, not just information

PulseDAQ turns the comparison and the gaps into specific ideas for your next sends, each with the reason behind it. Some come from your sector, some from what’s working in other sectors, and some from your own best emails.

Ideas for your next send3 of 12
From your sectorSend a free returns reminder on Sunday morning.

Fashion brands that mention returns in autumn sends do it most on Sundays. None of your competitors has this month.

From Food & DrinkTry a payday countdown in the last week of the month.

Common in food and drink newsletters, rare in fashion. Nobody in your sector has used it this year.

From your own sendsBring back your “new in” layout from August.

It was your most product-heavy send, and product-led emails are rising across the sector.

And the things you’d rather not do yourself.

Start fresh with every brand

We join each competitor’s mailing list as a new subscriber, so you see their welcome series and first-order offers as well as their regular emails.

Every email read for you

Subject, send time, offer, products, palette, urgency and length are pulled out of every email. Nobody on your team has to keep a dummy inbox.

Fair comparisons

Your own sends are read the same way as everyone else’s, so you’re comparing like with like.

Ready for Monday’s meeting

The report arrives first thing Monday. Read it in the browser or take the PDF into a meeting. Agencies can put their own logo on it and send it on.

Built on the whole market

Learned from hundreds of thousands of email newsletters.

We read newsletters from brands in every sector, not only the ones you name. That’s how your report knows what’s normal for your sector, what’s changing, and what has worked elsewhere that nobody in your sector has tried.

FashionBeautyFood & DrinkHome & GardenLeisure & TravelTechnologyHealthSport & OutdoorsKids & BabyPetsGiftsAdult & Relationships

Built for in-house teams and agencies.

In-house email and CRM teams

Walk into Monday’s planning meeting knowing what the market did last week.

  • Benchmark your sends against your whole sector
  • Spot offers and dates before competitors claim them
  • Get ideas for the week’s briefs
  • Unlimited seats on Team
Agencies

One report per client, ready to send on with your logo.

  • Up to ten client brands on one account
  • Your logo on the PDF
  • Scheduled delivery to clients
  • Ideas that come with the reasoning behind them

See what your inbox has been missing.

14 days free, no card. Your first report arrives next Monday.