Every country has its own way of being findable.
There are no good and bad markets — there are markets where email works and markets where only the phone and paper do. This page says which is which, with the numbers in view.
The countries with the most findable email addresses are almost always the ones where writing without permission is prohibited. And the reverse: where there is barely any email, most businesses do have a phone and no website. That is not a market problem — it is an instruction on where to go in.
Where we operate today
The two open markets. One for volume and permissiveness, the other because it is where the machine gets validated under controlled risk.
| Country | Businesses | With email | No website, has phone | Regime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 17.2M | 29.0% | 25.8% | Cold outreach permitted on an opt-out basis. Every send carries a real postal address and an opt-out that works the first time. |
| Spain | 3.8M | 32.7% | 30.9% | Middle ground: we operate with a logged legal basis, separating companies from sole proprietors before anyone is contacted. |
Latin America · where this model fits best
There is almost no findable email here, which is why almost nobody prospects. But between a third and half of all businesses have a phone and no website: exactly the profile we reach by call, letter and ads.
| Country | Businesses | With email | No website, has phone | Regime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 5.0M | 8.7% | 38.8% | The law asks for consent and enforcement has been light. We go in by phone and advertising, not by bulk email. |
| Brazil | 2.8M | 11.1% | 53.3% | LGPD accepts legitimate interest, but the authority has been enforcing since 2025. It demands the assessment in writing before starting. |
| Colombia | 1.4M | 9.5% | 38.7% | Consent regime with moderate enforcement. Same approach as Mexico. |
| Argentina | 1.1M | 9.5% | 42.1% | First country in the region with a data protection law; enforcement is low, but the framework is consent-based. |
Europe · open, with conditions
Here the map changes country by country — not because of the European regulation, but because of how each one wrote it into national law. Worth checking one by one before promising anything.
| Country | Businesses | With email | No website, has phone | Regime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3.0M | 36.4% | 24.0% | Cold outreach to companies is legal. The companies register is published in full and free, so cleaning the data costs little. |
| Netherlands | 1.5M | 46.0% | 18.6% | Legitimate interest is accepted for B2B contact. The authority is active: logging every send stops being optional. |
| France | 4.0M | 28.8% | 26.7% | B2B prospecting accepted under legitimate interest, provided the message is relevant to the recipient’s role. |
| Portugal | 867K | 18.7% | 49.3% | Allows contact without prior permission if relevant to the business. With almost half the country lacking a website, the channel is the phone. |
| Italy | 2.9M | 27.5% | 33.7% | Requires prior permission even between companies. Out of scope for email; still useful for advertising and market intelligence. |
| Poland | 746K | 40.1% | 27.0% | Same as Italy: prior permission required, B2B included. |
| Germany | 4.5M | 47.8% | 20.6% | The best email coverage in the whole file and the one place where competitors litigate, not the regulator. Blocked at system level. |
What each colour means
Contact permitted with a record. Every channel available.
We go in by phone, letter and ads; email only with the assessment signed and the volume capped.
No email cell opens. The system refuses the send even if a client asks for it; the country still works for advertising and reports.
And if your market is not on the list?
The file covers 95 countries. If yours is not here it is because we have not reviewed its legal framework yet, not because there is no data. Tell me and I will send back the count and the regime before you commit to anything.