Fully agree - we do the same, especially for countries like Sweden where it's impossible to contact people in the summer. ... View more

I wrote a blog post that might help you if you can access it - I am not sure whether you can access it but take a look at The changing EU data regulations and what it means to you The Marketing Week articles in this thread are a good summary. There's also a lot of good information online e.g. see this PDF and this PDF from third party sources. ... View more

That was what I was driving towards - if your duplicated emails were in stream 1, 2, 3 (or whatever) then you can use transition rule triggers to move leads from program A to program B but just have them join after the stream with the duplicated emails because you can tell Marketo to have them join a certain stream. This is a simple solution as long as your duplicate emails are not spread over many streams in the new program. ... View more

As a practical suggestion if you only have 4 emails why not wait until the streams are done and then consolidate going forwards with new email content? You will have good reasons but I wonder if consolidating when you only have 4 emails might use more of your time than it's worth. Marketo won't duplicate sending the same email to a contact within the streams within the same #engagement program but you're looking at separate programs and in this scenario one possible approach might depend on the streams in the other Engagement Program e.g. you could transition people over using triggered transition rules but drop them into stream 2 instead of 1 (just as an example if the email is in stream 1) i.e. you'd use 'Add to Engagement Program' flow step and then choose the stream. How are you planning to consolidate? Are you going to be using #transition rules using triggers? Finally do wait for some Marketo users with more expertise to comment. ... View more