TL;DR: High campaign cadence works when each send goes to the segment it was written for. Blasting the full list is how cadence kills a sender reputation.
From the audit vault: From audits of brands sending either two campaigns a month to everyone or none at all: the recommended cadence was ten to sixteen, each scoped to a segment.
Ten to sixteen campaigns a month sounds aggressive until you see the per-subscriber view: highly engaged segments hear from you weekly, cooler segments monthly, each send written for the group receiving it. Volume to the whole list burns engagement; volume to segments builds it.
A campaign scoped to recent browsers of a category, to lapsed VIPs, to one persona’s interests, earns its open because it is about them. The same message to everyone is about no one. Segmented cadence also protects deliverability: engagement rates stay high because irrelevant sends stop happening.
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High cadence is safe only when every send is segment-scoped.
Engaged segments weekly, cool segments monthly.
Use seasonality as targeting, not decoration.
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