Here’s a Tool to Test Featured Images for Gmail’s new Promotions Tab Grid View Layout

I wrote this tool over the weekend to experiment with Google's new Featured Images markup that allows the sender to designate a "featured image" of the email to be displayed when the recipient opens the Promotions tab in Grid View.

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Why Your Email May be Missing a Featured Image in the Gmail Grid View [Updated]

Gmail launched Grid View two days ago that featured listed emails in a grid view like a Pinterest pinboard. One thing caught my eyes immediately. A fair number of emails did not have a featured image even though there were fairly large images

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How to Create an Image Carousel for Email – Part 2 [Web & Desktop]

In Part 1 we saw how we can create a thumbnail driven image carousel for mobile email. This article will go over how to add support for Web & Desktop email clients such as Yahoo! Mail, Outlook.com and Outlook 2003...

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Gmail’s recent big marketshare bump

Litmus publishes a report of email marketshare based upon the statistics that they collect from emails that are tracked using their Email Analytics service. In the February 2014 report, I noticed Gmail made a leap from 3.02%

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