MotionMail to create countdown timer for emails?

[Allison_Walter]

Has anyone used motionmailapp.com to create a countdown timer for Marketo emails? What has your experience been? Has it impacted your mailing's deliverability or tripped up people's spam filters, or displayed script warnings to users?

Thanks!

[SanfordWhiteman]

You wouldn't have script warnings as it's an animated GIF, not a script (scripts don't work in email under any circumstances).

Depending on how long your offer lasts, the GIF can be very large, and therefore decreases your text-to-image ratio (a standard anti-spam check). It's ingenious technology, though.  You could give it a try in an A/B scenario.  (We don't sell any stuff that would work in this context, so I haven't tried it.)