The message subject is mandatory to prepare and send the message. It can be configured by clicking on the email label.
By clicking the Edit button, you can also add personalization fields and dynamic content to the subject line.
When editing an email, you can try out different subject lines and get an estimation of its open rate before you send it.
This feature is disabled by default. It is enabled when the first model is imported. A model is the result of training data sets specific to a given industry. Models allow the system to predict the open rate of the email when a new subject line is submitted.
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This feature is available for email messages and for databases that contain English contents only. The trained model will be inconsistent and will lead to erroneous results if your instance contains emails in other languages. The option that allows you to test a subject is only visible if a model is already available on your instance.
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If the subject line is too short, it cannot be analyzed and an error message is displayed.
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Colored words: When testing the subject, words highlighted in green are the words that contribute the most to increasing the open rate prediction. Words highlighted in red are the words that contribute the least to increasing the open rate prediction. If you add or remove words in the subject, highlighted words will change.
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Categories and word suggestions: Towards the lower part of the window, a number of relevant categories for the selected model are displayed. These categories are sorted by order of importance and they allow you to see whether your subject contains words that are associated with it via a check symbol. Each category contains a set of suggested words that could be used in your subject to make it more relevant and increase the open rate. These words are the words that are used the most often in a given category.
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Personalization fields and punctuation marks are stripped from the subject analysis. In the case of dynamic/conditional text, all variants are considered as one subject line.
By default, there is no model running on your Adobe Campaign server. There are two ways to get a model and activate the feature:
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If you are new to Adobe Campaign, you can extract a CSV file from your previous system/ESP that contains 4 columns: date, subject, sent, opens. To do that, go to Administration > Channels > Email > Subject Line Import and follow the instructions provided on the successive screens. When the subject upload is complete, import a local model as described below. The local model is automatically trained with the data you uploaded.
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If you are new to Adobe Campaign and cannot get a CSV file as described above, you can use a pre-trained model or wait until you have enough delivery data in your system to train a local model. The system will automatically determine whether your current data set contains enough data to recognize patterns and to train the model.
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You need at least 400 subject lines in order to be able to train your own model. If there is not enough data to process, the system will not be able to train the model. You can only have one trained model on your instance.
To train a local model, download the subjectLineTraining.xml from here and use the package import feature to upload it to your Adobe Campaign instance. A technical workflow will automatically do the training for you.
The first time you want to train a model, an administrator can force the SubjectLine Training workflow to start from the Administration > Application settings > Workflows menu.
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You can import pre-trained models that are specific to certain industries (medical, etc.) using the package import feature. These models are available here and cannot be trained.
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Importing and generating trained models can only be performed by an administrator.
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