LabourStart in Numbers: Our mailing lists
We haven’t updated the figures on our mailing lists for nearly a year — apologies for that! — so here goes.
The news is not very good.
In the lists below, the first number is from today (3 July 2020) and the second is from a year ago (31 July 2019).
The only lists which have grown are Polish (+183), Portuguese (+140) and Danish (+23). All the other lists have suffered declines. This occurs when the number of people whose addresses change (causing bounces) or who unsubscribe exceeds the number of new subscribers being added (from those people who are supporting our campaigns). The largest single loss is 3,051 in the English list.
The top 10:
English: 73,336 – 76,387
French: 7,717 – 8,277
German: 5,841 – 5,940
Spanish: 5,124 – 5,164
Turkish: 4,216 – 4,266
Korean: 3,400 – 3,742
Italian: 3,329 – 3,563
Russian: 2,631 – 2,694
Norwegian: 2,263 – 2,481
Dutch: 1,475 – 1,597
The others:
Swedish: 1,036 – 1,080
Chinese: 985 – 1,026
Portuguese: 1,006 – 866
Polish: 863 – 680
Japanese: 405 – 421
Ukrainian: 277 – 296
Hebrew: 243 – 251
Hungarian: 184 – 185
Tagalog: 162 – 175
Esperanto: 157 – 175
Danish: 104 – 81
Czech: 66 – 71
Slovakian: 15 – 15
These lists — which are not currently in use — will shortly be migrated to Sendy:
Arabic: 954
Finnish: 532
Indonesian: 394
Farsi: 218
Georgian: 217
Thai: 154
Greek: 57
Romanian: 39
Hindi: 37
Vietnamese: 25
Bulgarian: 18
Creole: 12
Sinhalese: 1
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I am guessing a bit but I would expect that most of our losses are due to the way we have had to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Makes it much less likely that someone participating in one of our campaigns will add their address to one of our mailing lists.
We need to give this and it’s effects some serious thought.