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Filed August 30, 2026
The short version
Sheryl Sandberg predicted on June 15, 2010: “If you want to know what people like us will do tomorrow, you look at what teenagers are doing today - and with only 11% of teens emailing daily, she predicted email is "probably going away."” Verdict: Missed it. Sixteen years later email remains a top-ROI marketing channel and the internetâs universal identity…
Prediction by
Sheryl Sandberg
On June 15, 2010
“If you want to know what people like us will do tomorrow, you look at what teenagers are doing today - and with only 11% of teens emailing daily, she predicted email is "probably going away."”
Follow-up
Sixteen years later email remains a top-ROI marketing channel and the internetâs universal identity layer; teen behavior did not generalize into emailâs disappearance.
Original source
Nielsen Consumer 360 conference (via HuffPost, Jun 17, 2010)Topics
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