The Email Marketing Podcast with Fexingo: Newsletters, Open Rates, and Subscriber Growth

Every marketing team wants higher open rates, but the metrics that actually matter — list churn, segment responsiveness, and deliverability decay — rarely make it into the headlines. In each episode, Lucas and Luna cut through the email-marketing noise, dissecting real newsletter strategies from brands like Morning Brew, The Hustle, and Substack’s top earners. They walk through specific A/B test results (subject-line length, send-time windows, preview-text impact), debate the trade-offs between daily and weekly cadences, and map out how subscriber-growth tactics shift when a list grows from 1,000 to 100,000. Luna challenges Lucas to defend his skepticism of open-rate benchmarks, while Lucas pushes Luna to prove that sequencing and automation deliver more than one-off blasts. They name the tools they trust (and the ones they don't), cite actual case studies from B2C and B2B campaigns, and never resort to vague 'best practices.' Together, they figure out what separates a newsletter peopl