Creative services/agency Email Marketing Benchmarks
2026 · Median values · December 2024 – November 2025
Open Rate47.69%Median
Click Rate1.87%Median
Click-to-Open Rate5.53%Median
Unsubscribe Rate0.29%Median
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How Creative services/agency compares with other industries
Each Creative services/agency figure set against the same median figure for every industry that reports it in the 2026 Email Marketing dataset from the same source. Rank 1 is the highest value.
| Metric | Creative services/agency | Industry median | Difference | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open rate | 47.69% | 43.75% | 3.94 percentage points above the median | 10 of 45 |
| Click rate | 1.87% | 1.84% | 0.03 percentage points above the median | 22 of 46 |
| Click-to-open rate | 5.53% | 6.31% | 0.78 percentage points below the median | 29 of 46 |
| Unsubscribe rate | 0.29% | 0.23% | 0.06 percentage points above the median | 9 of 46 |
- Medians, differences and ranks are calculated by Tecuy from the source's figures.
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Source & methodology
- Source
- MailerLite — Email marketing benchmarks by industry and region for 2026
- Platform measured
- MailerLite platform email campaigns (single-vendor customer data, blended across all regions)
- Campaign type
- Region
- Global (blended across all regions; see regional benchmarks for region-level figures)
- Year
- 2026
- Statistic type
- Median
- Sample
- Over 3.6 million campaigns from 181,000 approved accounts
- Measurement period
- December 2024 – November 2025
- Source published
- 2026-04-07
- Last verified by Tecuy
- 2026-09-20
Note
- Click-to-Open Rate: clicks as a share of opens, not of total sends.
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