The Outreach Reply Rate Collapsed. Here’s What Editors Actually Open in 2026

Across 7.5 million cold B2B emails sent last year, the average reply rate was 0.45%. That's not a typo. Fewer than one in two hundred pitches got any response, and the 2026 line is pointing further down. For anyone still trying to earn backlinks through outreach, that number changes the whole game. Volume stopped working. There […]

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