New Email Designer Customer Office Hours - Nov 5th 2025
In case you missed it, here's a recording of the new Email Designer Office Hours on Nov 5th 2025. The session walked through the newest capabilities in the Marketo Engage Email Designer, including a live demo of Conditional Content alongside updates like Template Converter, A/B testing support, Brand Themes, and Image-to-HTML generation. See how these features streamline personalization, speed up production, and improve governance for modern email workflows.
AI-Generated Summary:
2:30 – 16:30 | Conditional Content (live demonstration)
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Walkthrough of how to enable Conditional Content on an email block and create multiple variants.
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Demonstrated selecting segments for each variant, adjusting images/content per variant, and understanding top-to-bottom execution order with a default fallback.
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Emphasized parity with V2 Dynamic Content but redesigned in a new, more intuitive UI.
16:30 – 23:30 | Conditional Content Q&A
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Covered how variant testing works through Simulate Content and proof sends.
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Addressed segmentation requirements, variant logic, and light/dark mode behavior.
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Confirmed Conditional Content is currently email-only, not yet supported in templates or fragments.
23:30 – 26:30 | Background Images in the Designer
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Demonstrated applying background images to structures or columns and how content behaves when layered over them.
26:30 – 30:00 | Additional feature discussions
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Introduction to the new Template Converter, allowing V2 templates to be imported and rebuilt automatically in the new Email Designer.
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Mention of custom font handling via custom CSS and future improvements to global font application.
30:00 – 37:30 | Release highlights walkthrough
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Template Converter (Beta): convert V2 templates into editable new-designer templates.
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Conditional Content (GA): the feature demoed earlier.
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A/B Testing: new-designer emails can now be used in standard Marketo A/B tests.
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Brand Themes (GA Nov 7): upcoming feature to centrally define brand colors, fonts, spacing, and button styles for reuse across emails, templates, and fragments.
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Image-to-HTML generation: upload a design image to automatically convert it into an editable email layout.
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Cross-program email cloning: restored ability to clone emails directly into other programs.
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Reporting fix: new designer emails will soon behave correctly in program-level reporting without manual selection.
37:30 – 42:19 | Closing and open questions
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Confirmed no retirement date yet for the V2 editor and encouraged exploration of the new features released or coming this week.
