Owned Audience

Email Attention Ranking

Which YC companies are turning email-driven attention into high-value onboarding or retention signals?

profit weights are assumptionsEmail 1.4xLLM 1.5xSocial 0.8xDirect 1.2x
Total weighted minutes5.86Btop 12 companies
Fastest current pullAirbnb4.34M channel visits
Highest channel share20.1%Joy
Profit weight1.4xchannel assumption

Winner Ranking

Which YC companies are turning email-driven attention into high-value onboarding or retention signals?

traffic.cv source-backed
#1
Vidpressofacebook.com · YC Winter 2014
5.21B min
3.2%mail share
10:15duration
#2
Redditreddit.com · YC Summer 2005
279.4M min
0.9%mail share
5:40duration
#3
Substacksubstack.com · YC Winter 2018
97.5M min
11.9%mail share
3:50duration
#4
1000Memoriesancestry.com · YC Summer 2010
60.8M min
9.3%mail share
13:21duration
#5
Dropboxdropbox.com · YC Summer 2007
54.1M min
5.4%mail share
5:16duration
#6
Airbnbairbnb.com · YC Winter 2009
42.6M min
3.7%mail share
6:57duration
#7
RecordBookplay.google.com · YC Winter 2022
29.7M min
1.4%mail share
2:01duration
#8
NudgePadazure.com · YC Summer 2009
20.9M min
2.1%mail share
11:07duration
#9
DoorDashdoordash.com · YC Summer 2013
20.5M min
2.0%mail share
6:42duration
#10
Prolificprolific.com · YC Summer 2019
18.5M min
4.4%mail share
12:58duration
#11
Joywithjoy.com · YC Summer 2016
14.5M min
20.1%mail share
3:55duration
#12
Instacartinstacart.com · YC Summer 2012
10.8M min
3.5%mail share
5:08duration

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