“When it comes to sustainability, digitalisation should be seen as part of the solution, not as part of the problem,” says Alexander Rabe, Managing Director of eco on the occasion of the presentation today by Environment Minister Svenja Schulze of plans for more energy and resource efficiency in digital infrastructures.

Study The Internet Industry in Germany 2020–2025 & Germany 2030 – Digital Infrastructure Scenarios The Internet industry is entering a digital decade of superlatives: The study "The Internet Industry in Germany 2020-2025" forecasts revenue growth of 75 percent for the Internet industry in Germany. This makes...

The eco/ADL study: "The Internet Industry in Germany 2020-2025"

  Legal Insights Vol. 2 - Advertising concept and permission The Importance of Consent to and (Not) Advertising in Marketing Emails The second in the series of webinars and workshops offered as part of the 2020 CSA Digital Email Summit took place online on 7 September 2020. The series of workshop on legal issues...

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) today passed the now 10th amendment of the German Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB). eco takes a critical stance on the planned changes in competition law.

This week, the German Bundestag intends to pass a motion on the “Future Technology Artificial Intelligence”, which will include a statement on the European Commission’s AI White Paper. In February of this year, the EU Commission announced stronger regulations in its AI White Paper.  

The two presenters represent both a Brand and an Email Service Provider, offering practical first-hand information about their joint implementation of BIMI. This workshop will deal with a precise explanation of what exactly needs to be done, how it needs to be done, which showstopper can come up and how to overcome them. The focus will be on the practical implementation including all necessary steps in DNS, e.g. picture settings, BIMI-checks, graphics formatting. Deep technical knowledge is not required, the Workshop is targeted at Online Marketing Manager, Email Marketing Manager and Deliverability Manager. Florian Vierke - Sr. Manager, Deliverability Services, Mapp Digital; Peter Scholzuk - Head of Department Email Marketing, Witt-Gruppe

What we humbly call email Marketing is in itself a technological and organizational blueprint for highly automated and individualized marketing. The ability to communicate individually is key for starting and maintaining relationships. Nikolaus von Graeve - Managing Director, rabbit eMarketing GmbH

The Importance of Documenting Consent for Commercial Emails: The first of the series of webinars and workshops offered as part of the 2020 CSA Digital Email Summit took place online on 30 August 2020. The staff of the Complaints Office, Alexandra Koch-Skiba, Peter-Paul Urlaub and Sebastian Fitting took the attendees through legal issues related to the documentation of consent to use email addresses in email marketing. Read a quick write-up of the webinar here.

With large-scale Internet companies currently implementing DNS over HTTPS (DoH), Klaus Landefeld, Vice-Chair of the eco Association, explains the significance of the move, and why network operators and ISPs should be working on implementation themselves.