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Everything you need to know about BIMI for email

Email continues to be the most popular way for businesses globally to communicate, so it’s crucial organizations implement the best methods for ensuring both authenticity and brand experience.

Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is an email standard introduced in 2021 that enables businesses to show their brand logo in the avatar slot of the DMARC-authenticated emails they send. This means businesses can proactively protect recipients of their email from bad actors. If you're a technical administrator, marketer, or business leader, implementing BIMI will mean you reap the benefits.

What are the benefits of BIMI?

When implemented using a Verified Mark Certificate (VMC), Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) has a number of benefits for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Showing a verified logo in email using a VMC can help businesses enjoy:

Increase brand recall

After a 5 second exposure, brands that had applied a trademarked logo increased their recall by up to 44%. The stronger the brand, the higher the recall increase, up to 120%.

Improve open rates

Irrespective of brand strength or market share, the inclusion of a trademarked logo uplifts open rates by up to 39% in both transactional and promotional email.

Influence behavior

Prospects are more likely to purchase when a trademarked logo is applied. The email open uplift carried over to purchasing decisions with an average buying increase of up to 32%.

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Why get BIMI certified with Red Sift?

We offer the only complete BIMI certification solution available on the market. What does that mean for you?

It's easy

An assigned Customer Success Engineer will guide both IT and Marketing teams through all parts of the process to ensure your organization qualifies for BIMI.

It's essential

Red Sift’s cybersecurity DMARC product, OnDMARC, provides crucial email security protection as well as the foundation for your BIMI certification.

It's managed by experts

We've helped OnDMARC customers send over 100 million VMC-enabled emails through participation in Google's BIMI pilot in 2020.

Trusted by the best security leaders in the business

"Along with the 80% increase in click-through rates, BIMI has been an incredible strategic investment for Tallyfy. We have boosted brand awareness and confidence in the Tallyfy trademark, and are on par with the security standards of Fortune 500 organizations."

Amit Kothari

CEO

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Amit Kothari

CEO

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Implementing BIMI email for your business

The inbox is a battleground for attention, and today businesses need to use every way possible to stand out, increase brand impressions, and improve consumer interaction with the emails they’re sending. Below is some useful information on how to implement BIMI for your business.

What to know before implementing BIMI

To help more businesses get ready for BIMI, we’re covering the 7 things you need to know before implementing it.

How to add your brand logo to email

Everything you need to know in terms of logo requirements for BIMI.

How to create a BIMI-supported SVG file

We go into detail on the first step you need to take to get ready for BIMI.

BIMI FAQs

How does BIMI work?

Similar to SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records, your BIMI record lives in your DNS as a text (TXT) file. When an email you send arrives in the recipient inbox, the recipient server looks this up to check that it’s coming from a verified sender (using DMARC). Once authenticated, the BIMI TXT file informs the recipient server of the logo’s location, and it is then made visible in the recipient inbox.

What is a BIMI record?

A BIMI record is a text (TXT) record that includes your BIMI logo SVG file’s URL.

Here's an example:

v=BIMI1; l=https://bimi.entrust.net/redsift.io/logo.svg; a=https://bimi.entrust.net/redsift.io/certchain.pem

How long does it take to deploy BIMI?

The time it takes to deploy BIMI can vary from business to business. Most of the time, it depends on your organization’s size, the complexity of your infrastructure, your DMARC status, and whether you already have your logo trademarked.

To obtain a VMC, your organization’s domain needs to be in p=quarantine at 100% or p=reject. With OnDMARC, this can be achieved in just 6-8 weeks.

BIMI and DMARC requirements

To ensure security and protection for your organization, BIMI can only be implemented on a domain that has a DMARC protection policy of at least p=quarantine, and that policy is at 100%.

DMARC is a protocol that allows domain owners to obtain visibility to email services that are sending on their behalf, and also to block unauthorized senders. DMARC is the only protocol that can prevent illegitimate services from sending on behalf of a domain once that domain is at a policy of quarantine or reject.

DMARC works with existing protocols SPF and DKIM. These protocols need to be configured on your valid email sending services before moving into a DMARC protection policy.

Is BIMI a security standard?

No, BIMI is not a security standard. For a business to be able to use BIMI in line with Google, it must be DMARC compliant. DMARC is a security protocol that protects against exact domain impersonation. When implemented correctly (p=reject), it blocks phishing attacks using your domain, protecting your business, brand reputation, and supply chain. It can also improve your email deliverability and even inbox placement as a result.

It’s vital that we view BIMI as a ‘reward’ for correctly implementing the security protocol DMARC. While the presence of a logo in the email indicates DMARC compliance, it in no way offers domain protection. This is done by the DMARC protocol it sits on.

What is a VMC and why do I need one?

A Verified Mark Certificate (VMC) is the logo certification required for BIMI. It’s issued by a Certification Authority (CA) and works alongside DMARC to enable logo visibility in the inbox. Google has selected just two CAs as eligible to issue VMCs, one of which is our partner Entrust.

To get a VMC, your logo must be trademarked. Having a VMC is an essential part of the puzzle, as without one you won’t be able to become BIMI certified.

What's the difference between BIMI and VMC?

BIMI is the protocol that will enable you to display the logo beside your message.

A VMC (verified-mark certificate) certifies that the logo belongs to the company and that it is a legitimate company. A VMC ties into the BIMI record as a tamper-proof security measure, and by itself won’t do anything.