Return Path Launches Sender Score Reputation Monitor; ''Credit Score'' System Allows Email Senders to View Their Email Reputation as Receivers Do and Gives Actionable Data to Improve Reputation, Delivery Rates.

NEW YORK -- Return Path, Inc., the leading email performance company, has announced the launch of Sender Score Reputation Monitor, the first comprehensive email reputation management system that gives companies a simple, clear reputation score - a "credit score" for email -- based on robust data from email receivers and analyzed by Return Path's proprietary technology. Reputation data drives email blocking, filtering, and ultimately whether a company's email gets delivered, making this score important for all email programs. Email receivers such as ISPs and spam filtering applications vendors will also use this scoring system in their filtering algorithms.

"Email reputation dictates how much email reaches the inbox at most ISPs," said George Bilbrey, VP & GM of Delivery Assurance Solutions for Return Path. "With Sender Score Reputation Monitor, companies now have an easy way to see their email programs as ISPs do and get the information they need to fix any problems hindering deliverability."

Sender Score Reputation Monitor aggregates 60 data points from more than 50 million email boxes around the internet to quantify a mailer's reputation, looking at factors such as complaint rates, unknown user rates, security practices, identity stability and unsubscribe functionality. Data comes from several major ISPs and filtering companies, including Mailshell, Cloudmark and Lashback.

"Sender Score Reputation Monitor is particularly useful for email service providers managing deliverability for multiple clients," Bilbrey says. "The data it provides makes troubleshooting delivery issues much easier, giving clear direction to find solutions that will get more email to the inbox."

All of Return Path's Delivery Assurance Solutions products will now be called Sender Score to emphasize the importance of reputation when it comes to email deliverability. "By branding our delivery products as Sender Score, we integrate the advanced technology of Sender Score Reputation Monitor into our core Manager and Monitor packages," said Matt Blumberg, CEO of Return Path. "Reputation is the foundation of all of our delivery services, whether we are providing intense delivery consulting or delivery tracking tools."

Sender Score Reputation Monitor, which has been in beta since last year, is available now for general use as a standalone product or as a component of Return Path's Sender Score Monitor package.

About Return Path

Founded in 1999, Return Path is an e-mail performance management company dedicated to improving the reach, delivery performance and overall success of permission-based e-mail programs. More than 1,500 companies use Return Path's services to generate superior results from their e-mail programs, taking advantage of Return Path's pioneering innovation in deliverability, ECOA, list hygiene, double-opt-in list acquisition, online market research and best practices strategy. Return Path Delivery Assurance Solutions are the industry's original and premier e-mail deliverability tools and services, including the Bonded Sender Program for e-mail accreditation, and the only full-circle solution for solving e-mail deliverability issues. The company's investors include Sutter Hill Ventures, Mobius Venture Capital, Flatiron Partners, and JP Morgan Partners. For more information, please visit www.returnpath.net, e-mail [e-mail], or call toll-free 866-362-4577.