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ZeroBounce

It’s imperative for your open rate and your ROI that your email reaches inboxes. ZeroBounce’s bulk email verifier helps you clean your list with 99% accuracy and prevents more bad data with its email validation API. Plus, ZeroBounce integrates with popular platforms like MailChimp, Constant Contact, HubSpot, and more.

Typewolf

Whether you agonize over ascenders and majuscules or not, Typewolf is a seriously cool typography resource for designers. Choose the right font combo for your next design project with endless examples, recommendation lists, font alternatives, free font resources, and more. Typewolf is independent and optimized for the designer’s perspective—because it’s the passion project of a real designer, Jeremiah Shoaf.

GameRefinery Player Motivations & Archetypes

We think GameRefinery’s motivational dataset and gamer archetype guide is a powerful resource for advertisers, not just game developers. When you’re determining an audience for your in-game ads, it’s important to understand a gamer’s primary motivations. And what marketer doesn’t love a good buyer persona?

Flowcode

A thoughtfully-placed QR code can be a powerful way to drive conversions and collect information. You can use Flowcode’s free QR code generator to build colorful QRs customized with your logo in any shape or pattern. Check out Flowcode TV for premium QR codes optimized for TV, CTV, and digital video.

Social Media Holiday Calendar

Unless you’re a wine brand, you might not have to post about #NationalCheeseDay (June 4, btw). Still, it’s a good idea to keep a thumb on cultural touchpoints and meaningful moments throughout the year. Status Brew put together a Social Media Holiday Calendar to help you plan content that resonates at the right time.

axe DevTools

Build web accessibility into your development routine. axe DevTools provides fast, automated in-browser tests to identify and fix 57% of digital accessibility issues and violations effortlessly while you code. Export, save, and share those issues with the rest of your team to build a more inclusive digital environment.

VITA

It’s hard to find a good, free mobile video editing app, but VITA is a powerful little tool with a lot of big fans. VITA allows you to easily export videos in full HD quality and make use of features like slow motion, cinematic transitions, filters and effects, video templates, animated fonts, and more.

Is It Down Right Now?

Is It Down Right Now? is helpful for when you’re getting contacted about problems on your site OR you just want to know why Facebook won’t load. Simply type a URL into the field and find response time graphs and site history, as well as a status check of top websites and platforms. Plus, you can check the status of a site from your browser’s toolbar.

VWO Platform

The VWO Platform is an experimentation platform that can help you create A/B tests, multivariate tests, and segment-targeted tests using a point-and-click visual editor, code editor, and VWO’s AI copy generator. Plus, you can drill down in a comprehensive reporting dashboard, which includes heatmaps and recordings.