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From: AirOps

Subject: What 300+ Marketing Leaders Revealed

Preview text: Marketing leaders are facing higher targets, tighter budgets, and growing pressure to adopt AI.

AirOps logo at top. A mockup of a physical book titled "2026 Marketing Leaders Reality Index" sits beside the headline "How marketing leaders are operating with higher targets and tighter resources," followed by a dark green button reading "Get the full report →". Below, five colored tiles show statistics: 75.4% higher pipeline or revenue targets, 43.0% reported any budget increase, 86.6% prioritizing AI search, 88.4% emerging or operational in AI adoption, and 7.4% advanced or leading in AI maturity. Social icons and the AirOps wordmark appear at the bottom.

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Grade B+.

87/1004/5 Best of Email

A survey stat strip that sells the research itself

AirOps backs its "2026 Marketing Leaders Reality Index" with a five-stat strip, making the research's weight visible before the reader even clicks.

Editor’s note
Nobody wants another vague survey recap. AirOps opens with "higher targets, tighter budgets" so the reader feels understood before the ask, then backs it with five hard stats instead of adjectives.

Why this email made the gallery

  1. Trust & compliance scored 100 out of 100

    One-click unsubscribe built in

    It carries the List-Unsubscribe and List-Unsubscribe-Post headers Gmail and Yahoo require from bulk senders, protecting inbox placement.

  2. Layout scored 97 out of 100

    A good length for a B2B email

    At 198 words it stays under the 250-word mark that reads comfortably on a phone screen.

  3. Layout scored 97 out of 100

    Columns stack on a phone

    Media queries switch side-by-side blocks to a single column on small screens, which matters since more than half of opens happen on mobile.

  4. CTA scored 84 out of 100

    CTA text says what happens

    "Get the survey results" tells readers exactly what they'll get when they click.

  5. Accessibility scored 79 out of 100

    Readable font sizes

    Body copy is set large enough to read on a phone without zooming in.

Grade breakdownHow this email scored across the 12 categories. The 3 strongest are highlighted; hover or tap a category for what it measures.Show

Inbox

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Message

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Design

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