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The 63 best fall email subject lines (backed by research)

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Based on our research, fall is the highest sales season of the year for most businesses, seeing as Black Friday falls at the end of November—which is why it’s crucial you use high-converting fall email subject lines.

It’s important to strike a different tone for this season. For clothing, seasonal changes are quite easy and logical.

For other types of ecommerce businesses, it’s important that you go along with the more serious feeling for this season.

Summer was a nice break, but now in the fall it’s important for people to get back to business, students to get back to school, and to focus on longer-term goals and strategies.

This could be updating their electronics and gadgets, enrolling in courses, or buying higher-ticket items.

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In fall, we have the following holidays and occasions:

  • US Labor Day
  • Oktoberfest
  • Halloween
  • Veteran’s Day
  • Thanksgiving Day
  • Black Friday/Cyber Monday

So let’s look at the best performing autumn and fall email subject lines to inspire your marketing campaigns in the busiest shopping season of the year (and remember to check out our guide on the best email subject lines overall).

Should I use ‘fall’ or ‘autumn’ in my email subject lines?

Because we see in our data that our customers are using ‘fall’ and ‘autumn’ separately and differently, we decided to separate these two terms, even though they discuss the same thing.

In general, when deciding which words to use in your subject lines, you may be wondering: fall or autumn?

It really depends on where most of your customers are—for North Americans, fall (in red) would be the most applicable, and for everywhere else, autumn (in blue) would work the best.

Google Trends of Autumn vs. Fall by country

According to Google Trends, ‘fall’ always beats ‘autumn’ as a search term, and this goes to show the internet power (and spending) of the ‘fall’ countries.

Fall vs Autumn Google Search trends

This trend seems to be reflected in our email marketing statistics as well. Even though we have 40,000+ customers spread across more than 130 countries, ‘fall’ still performs better in email subject lines:

Fall vs. autumn vs. other campaign phrases

The 5 top-performing general fall email subject lines

When we break down the subject lines into ‘fall’ and ‘autumn,’ we get different results. Here are the top 5 email subject lines with the word ‘fall’:

#1 Fall email subject line: “[Brand Name] colour for Fall”

  • Open rate: 53.1%
  • Click rate: 4%

#2 Fall email subject line: “[Brand Name]’s back for fall”

  • Open rate: 50.2%
  • Click rate: 5.1%

#3 Fall email subject line: “FALL FREEBIE”

  • Open rate: 41.5%
  • Click rate: 18.5%

#4 Fall email subject line: “🍁 The [Brand Name] Start of Fall Sale!🍂”

  • Open rate: 39.2%
  • Click rate: 23.7%

#5 Fall email subject line: “New Post – How To Wear Long Coat This Fall”

  • Open rate: 36%
  • Click rate: 2.7%

The 5 top-performing autumn email subject lines

For autumn, the following subject lines fared the best. Surprisingly, the emoji and mood of these subject lines are more related to later in the season than what we saw previously. Also, you’ll notice mention of ‘winter’ below:

#1 Autumn email subject line: “Swedish simplicity for autumn”

  • Open rate: 24.9%
  • Click rate: 4.9%

#2 Autumn email subject line: “{{Customer name}}, Autumn Skincare Tips”

  • Open rate: 23.9%
  • Click rate: 1.2%

#3 Autumn email subject line: “🍂 Gear Up for Autumn!”

  • Open rate: 22.1%
  • Click rate: 2.9%

#4 Autumn email subject line: “Fall into Autumn: See What We Got for Your Pets”

  • Open rate: 21.1%
  • Click rate: 1.5%

#5 Autumn email subject line: “Autumn/Winter is on the way – See what’s new”

  • Open rate: 20.5%
  • Click rate: 4.2%

What does it mean for your business?

The data here is quite revealing.

The countries that tend to buy more products online usually use the word ‘fall’ rather than ‘autumn’, and that’s perhaps why we see much better open and click rates (a high open rate of 53.1% and click rate of 23.7%) for ‘fall,’ while ‘autumn’ could only reach a high open rate of 24.9% and click rate of 4.9%.

This would be enough incentive to use ‘fall’ instead of ‘autumn’, but the ABT law still applies here: Always Be Testing.

See what your customers respond best to and go with that.

Fall email subject lines about the end of summer

  • So Long Summer 👋
  • End of Summer Sale: Last Call
  • The Sun Is Setting on This Sale.
  • Bye, Felicia ☀️! Hello, Fall 🍁

Fall subject lines that play with the word ‘fall’

  • It’s Time to Fall Back into Your Practice!
  • Fall in Love with Interweave Knits
  • Fall Into Savings and Get 20% Off
  • Fall For What You Love
  • 🍂 Fall Blazers Only $199 | Casual Pants 50% OFF 🍂
  • Fall Into Style & Get Ready For Colder Weather
  • Fall for Fall
  • Fall in love with these NEW September styles
  • New Season & New Styles to Fall In Love With
  • “Fall” in Love with Up to 70% OFF
  • Fall’s Pride! 25% OFF For 2 Days

Fall email subject lines about sales and savings

  • Our Biggest Fall Sale Ever Starts Today!
  • FALL SALE up to 70% off
  • LAST DAY to SAVE 25% during our BIGGEST FALL SALE!
  • New for Fall + SALE
  • Get your closet fall-ready – SALE on full price and markdown styles
  • Our Fall Clearance Event Starts Now!
  • 25% Off – Fall Fashion Event
  • Fall Clearance Event
  • Fall Season Sale

Fall email subject lines with free shipping

  • Ready for Fall? 🍂 Last chance for free shipping 🚚
  • Autumn in the air: 25% off + FREE shipping sitewide
  • NFL Kickoff Weekend – Get Free Shipping on Your Order
  • Experience Autumn: 2 for $10 Candles + $6 Wallflowers

Fall email subject lines announcing new products or collections

  • Psst… First Look at Fall
  • All eyes on the new season
  • Just In! Your New Fall Faves
  • New Season & New Styles to Fall In Love With
  • 🍂New Arrivals: Our 2017 Fall Collection is here!
  • New Fall 2017 Products | Available Now!
  • New Fall Styles Have Arrived, Shop Now
  • Introducing The New Collection | Fall
  • New Fall Styles Just Arrived
  • Fresh Fall Looks, Straight from the Catwalk!
  • The hottest fall sneakers are in…
  • Our New Fall Direction

Other fall and autumn email subject lines

  • Check Out These Fun Ideas for a Disney Halloween!
  • Tricks ‘n’ treats for some wicked good fun
  • Fall’s Must-Haves
  • Hello Fall
  • Fall is here! Stock up!
  • Fall Fashion Event
  • 🍂 Fall Is Lit!
  • Spice up your fall wardrobe
  • Trend alert! 5 must-haves for fall
  • Fall Savings Event starts today.
  • On now! The Fall Beauty Event
  • Fresh For Fall
  • 10 Fabulous Ways to Make Fall Your Favorite Season

Bernard Meyer
Article by
Bernard Meyer

Bernard is the Director of Content at Omnisend, with a passion for good research, helping ecommerce businesses with their marketing automation needs, and beating absolutely everyone in Mario Kart 64.


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