What this guide contains
- The 2026 average reply rate and the top vs bottom spread
- Reply and open rates broken down by industry (9 verticals)
- The deliverability thresholds mailbox providers actually use
- The verified-data lever, with the numbers
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Reply, open, bounce and inbox placement rates across nine industries, plus the one lever that separates the top quartile from the rest.
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What you'll learn
- How to read your numbers against your industry's market
- Which threshold actually caps your replies
- How clean data moves you up a performance band
- How to benchmark your own rates in seconds
Who it's for
- SDRs, BDRs and outbound teams
- Founders running their own outreach
- RevOps and growth leads owning performance
- Agencies running cold email for clients