What Changed in Email Marketing This Month (2026–2027 Update)
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This is the format our daily monitor feeds: we track vendor blogs, changelogs and pricing pages across every major platform, then write up what actually matters. First installment below.
How to read this
Each item = one thing that changed, who it affects, and whether you should care. No press-release rewrites.
What we’re watching right now
- Newsletter platform feature races. beehiiv and Kit keep shipping growth features weeks apart. When one launches something material (recommendation networks, monetisation tiers), we check whether the other matches within a quarter.
- Free-plan creep. The economics of “free up to N subscribers” plans keep shifting — they’re customer-acquisition funnels, and the N changes more often than vendors announce it. Our free tools ranking updates automatically when they do.
- AI features arriving in every editor. Subject-line generators were the gimmick phase; we’re now watching which AI features actually move deliverability and engagement metrics. Most don’t, yet.
Coming next month
The monitor publishes this roundup automatically as changes accumulate. Deal changes (commission structure updates, new affiliate programs) get their own posts — check the deals page for the current state of play.
Prices and terms in this post were accurate when published — check the linked pages for today's numbers.