New Email Designer Customer Office Hours - Nov 5th 2025

JoeStewart
Marketo Employee
Marketo Employee

In case you missed it, here's a recording of the new Email Designer Office Hours on Nov 5th 2025. The session walked through the newest capabilities in the Marketo Engage Email Designer, including a live demo of Conditional Content alongside updates like Template Converter, A/B testing support, Brand Themes, and Image-to-HTML generation. See how these features streamline personalization, speed up production, and improve governance for modern email workflows.

 

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2:30 – 16:30 | Conditional Content (live demonstration)

  • Walkthrough of how to enable Conditional Content on an email block and create multiple variants.

  • Demonstrated selecting segments for each variant, adjusting images/content per variant, and understanding top-to-bottom execution order with a default fallback.

  • Emphasized parity with V2 Dynamic Content but redesigned in a new, more intuitive UI.

16:30 – 23:30 | Conditional Content Q&A

  • Covered how variant testing works through Simulate Content and proof sends.

  • Addressed segmentation requirements, variant logic, and light/dark mode behavior.

  • Confirmed Conditional Content is currently email-only, not yet supported in templates or fragments.

23:30 – 26:30 | Background Images in the Designer

  • Demonstrated applying background images to structures or columns and how content behaves when layered over them.

26:30 – 30:00 | Additional feature discussions

  • Introduction to the new Template Converter, allowing V2 templates to be imported and rebuilt automatically in the new Email Designer.

  • Mention of custom font handling via custom CSS and future improvements to global font application.

30:00 – 37:30 | Release highlights walkthrough

  • Template Converter (Beta): convert V2 templates into editable new-designer templates.

  • Conditional Content (GA): the feature demoed earlier.

  • A/B Testing: new-designer emails can now be used in standard Marketo A/B tests.

  • Brand Themes (GA Nov 7): upcoming feature to centrally define brand colors, fonts, spacing, and button styles for reuse across emails, templates, and fragments.

  • Image-to-HTML generation: upload a design image to automatically convert it into an editable email layout.

  • Cross-program email cloning: restored ability to clone emails directly into other programs.

  • Reporting fix: new designer emails will soon behave correctly in program-level reporting without manual selection.

37:30 – 42:19 | Closing and open questions

  • Confirmed no retirement date yet for the V2 editor and encouraged exploration of the new features released or coming this week.

 

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