To add dynamic images to your campaign, please follow these steps:
Create a column in your sheet/CSV (with all the unique image links for all your leads) and set the column name to "ImageURL" without spaces between the words.
Host your image on Google Photos (upload it there and use the share link) to get a perfectly trustable image host.
Click on Share, and then Create link.
Copy the shared link of the image from Google Photos.
Paste the share link from Google Photos on this website to get an embed link that you can finally use in Instantly.
Paste it under Google Photos Link, then click Generate Embed Code
Once generated, copy the Direct Image link.
Download the CSV and upload it to Instantly.
When mapping the columns, use "Custom variable" for the ImageURL column.
Once you've done that, you can just go to your sequence editor and add a random single image from the ones you have, the way you would normally add an image (just so the HTML code for the image shows up).
Go to the Code View
Find the code for your image and then change the src="url" (the whole URL as shown below) to src="{{ImageURL}}"
Original Link:
Change the original link to a variable {{ImageURL}}, but make sure you keep the "".
Please do not add the # symbol before the ImageURL variable.
Once you've done this, switch out of the code view, and even though the image might appear broken in the sequence editor, you will be able to see it working in the preview mode.
Click Preview to preview the image or send a test email to double-check that the image works.
If your image still appears broken after following the above steps, please ensure the two settings below are not enabled, as they will remove images and send emails as text-only.
The "Delivery Optimization" feature in the Options section of the campaign
The "Always send first email as text-only" feature in the Advanced Deliverability setting
