George Bilbrey
Co-Founder, President
George Bilbrey is the founder of the industry's first deliverability service provider, Assurance Systems, which merged with Return Path in 2003. He is a recognized expert on the subjects of email reputation and deliverability and is active in many industry organizations, including the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) and the Online Trust Alliance (OTA). In his role as president of Return Path George is the driving force behind the ongoing innovation of our products and services. Prior to Return Path, George served as Director of Product Management at Worldprints.com and as a partner in the telecommunications group at Mercer Management Consulting. He holds a B.A. in economics from Duke University, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina. You can learn much more about George by reading his email technology and entrepreneurship blog Monkey Mind Labs.

Jul
7

Gmail’s New Approach to Protecting Readers Against Phishing


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Spoofing and phishing are on the rise. According to the RSA, more than 260 million emails were sent to consumers every day. A 2010 Symantec report shows more than 95 billion phishing emails were projected to be sent. Of these fraudulent messages, a significant percent of spoofing is for mailbox providers.

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Jul
6

New Complaint Feedback Loops Available from Synacor and FastMail


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Continuing the growth of our global Receiver Alliance, Return Path is pleased to announce the deployment of two new feedback loop services for our partners Synacor and FastMail. With the addition of these services, Return Path now hosts and manages 10 of the 13 public complaint feedback loops available today.

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Jun
14

The Newest Return Path Study Explains Why I Keep Talking about Reputation


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I’ve been writing about reputation and why it’s so important on this blog for years (the first recorded instance is from back in 2006). I’ve explained why you need to pay attention to reputation, and I’ve even called reputation the “King” (83% of the time).

Why do I think your reputation so important? Before I answer that question, let’s start with a more fundamental one – why is inbox placement important?

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Apr
28

Join Me for Email Authentication Training at the Online Trust Alliance Academy


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I’m headed off to Chicago next week, excited to attend the OTA Academy training program. The OTA Academy is a comprehensive full-day email authentication training program designed to aid email administrators, security professionals and interactive marketers to implement authentication so they can prevent and detect email spoofing, phishing and brand exploits.

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Apr
19

New Intelligence Data Drives the Latest Release of Our Deliverability Monitoring Suite


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Today, I am proud to announce that by listening to our clients and the marketplace, we have made some major enhancements to our Deliverability Monitoring Suite, providing email marketers with the information they need to more effectively get into the inbox, increase response rate and provide more visibility and insight into subscribers and ISP filtering.

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Feb
22

Email Security Expert Sam Masiello Joins the Return Path Team


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In conjunction with our launch today of Domain Assurance, an anti-phishing/spoofing service designed to block fraudulent emails before they reach consumers’ inboxes, we also wanted to take a moment and welcome Sam Masiello to the Return Path team.

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Feb
22

Return Path Research Shows Trusted Brands Are Wide Open to Phishing Attacks. Domain Assurance Can Change That.


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Has your brand ever been the victim of a phishing attack at one of the major ISPs? If you are tempted to think “No way, not my company” I’m willing to bet, based on our most recent research, that you are wrong.

Return Path research found that little more than half of IPs with Sender Scores over 80 passed DKIM. That’s a low number for some of the best senders in the world, especially since DKIM was developed to help protect senders email from being compromised.

How do you know if you are protected? We can help.

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Oct
4

Welcome to Received:


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I am proud to formally announce the launch of a new blog from Return Path featuring conversations about email technology and security. Welcome to Received:

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Sep
1

Hotmail Using New Metrics to Influence Inbox Placement


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Hotmail is now using a new level of engagement metrics to measure reputation and make inbox placement decisions. You can read about them in my Email Insider column today, but here are the highlights:

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Aug
31

Gmail Priority Inbox: The Continuation of a Trend


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First Yahoo!, then Hotmail, and now Gmail. (And soon AOL?) In their ongoing campaign to be the inbox of choice, large webmail providers are rolling out features that reduce email overload and improve the email experience for subscribers by, among other things, highlights messages that the user is likely to deem important.

It’s still way too soon to tell what this means for the future of email marketing. But it’s clear that the “first in, last out” model of email — one that has prevailed for more than 15 years — is breaking.

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