HTML & MJML

Automated Weekly Roundup Email Template

A weekly roundup email template designed for content curators, newsletters publishers, and media brands seeking to deliver fresh, engaging content to their audience in a digestible format. This modern, responsive email template features a clean layout that highlights your latest articles, tech reviews, and insider summaries with compelling headlines and read-more links. Perfect for tech newsletters, lifestyle publications, entertainment blogs, business news roundups, and niche industry digests, this email template keeps subscribers informed and engaged with minimal friction. The design accommodates multiple content sections while maintaining visual hierarchy, making it ideal for marketing teams, editorial directors, and content strategists who want to maximize click-through rates. Using this newsletter template, publishers can establish consistent brand presence, build subscriber loyalty, and drive traffic back to their platform—ultimately boosting audience engagement and establishing authority in their vertical.

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About the Automated Weekly Roundup Email Template

Built for content curators, newsletter publishers, and media brands, this weekly roundup template transforms your best content into a structured, scannable digest that subscribers actually look forward to. By automating delivery cadence and organizing articles, reviews, and summaries into a clean visual hierarchy, it removes the manual effort from consistency—so your audience stays informed, engaged, and clicking back to your platform every single week.

When to use this template

Schedule this template to deploy automatically every week on the same day and time—Tuesday through Thursday mornings tend to drive highest open rates for digest-style newsletters. Trigger it as part of a recurring automation workflow that pulls fresh content, ensuring subscribers receive their roundup without any manual send intervention from your team.

A tech blog automating its Friday five-article weekly digest for subscribers
A B2B media brand summarizing industry news every Monday morning for executives
A lifestyle publication rounding up weekly wellness tips, recipes, and trend pieces
An entertainment newsletter delivering weekend streaming picks and pop culture recaps
A niche SaaS community sharing product updates, tutorials, and curated resources weekly
A marketing agency sending clients a branded digest of campaign insights and industry reads

Subject line ideas

Your weekly roundup is here — don't miss this
This week's best reads, hand-picked for you
5 stories you need to catch up on this week
Inside this week: [Topic], [Topic] & more

Best practices for automated newsletter emails

Lead each article block with a tension-driving headline that withholds just enough to earn the click
Use consistent section labels like 'Top Story' or 'Editor's Pick' to train readers on your roundup structure week over week
Write two-sentence article blurbs that answer 'why does this matter now' rather than summarizing the piece generically
Place your highest-value content in the first two sections before the fold, since weekly digests see sharp drop-off in scroll depth
Include a single recurring anchor element—like an editor's note or stat of the week—to build ritual and recognizable brand voice

Template anatomy

How the Automated Weekly Roundup Email Template template is laid out, top to bottom:

section (1 column) containing image.
section (1 column) containing text block.
section (1 column) containing spacer.
section (1 column) containing image, text block.
section (1 column) containing spacer.
section (1 column) containing social row, social link, divider, text block, button.

Components used

Built from the following MJML elements:

7 text blocks2 images2 spacers1 social row1 social link1 divider1 button

Color palette

Colors used across the Automated Weekly Roundup Email Template template:

#2a3b47

#f1f3f5

#ffffff

#72808e

#434483

#1a1a1a

#cccccc

#666666

transparent

Typography

Font stacks declared in the template:

Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

MJML source code

A preview of the MJML markup for the Automated Weekly Roundup Email Template template. Open it free in EmailBuilder.ai to get the complete source and start customizing.

<mjml>
  <mj-head>
    <mj-title>Automated Weekly Roundup Email Template</mj-title>
    <mj-preview>
      Latest articles, tech reviews & insider content summaries
    </mj-preview>
    <mj-attributes>
      <mj-all font-family="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">
      </mj-all>
      <mj-text color="#2a3b47">
      </mj-text>
    </mj-attributes>
  </mj-head>
  <mj-body background-color="#F1F3F5">
    <mj-section padding="20px 0px">
      <mj-column>
        <mj-image src="[[branding.logoURL]]" alt="Logo" width="200px">
        </mj-image>
      </mj-column>
    </mj-section>
    <mj-section background-color="#ffffff">
      <mj-column>
        <mj-text font-size="24px" line-height="28px" font-weight="700" color="#2a3b47" padding-bottom="6px">
          Latest Articles
        </mj-text>
        <mj-text font-size="15px" line-height="21px" color="#72808e" padding-top="16px">
          Here is a short summary of the great content we are sending over this month.
          <br>
            <br>
              Sincerely,
              <br>
                The Team
              </mj-text>
            </mj-column>
          </mj-section>
          <mj-section padding="0px">
            <mj-column>
              <mj-spacer height="50px">
              </mj-spacer>
            </mj-column>
          </mj-section>
          [% mrloop post in sources[0].posts.slice(0,5) %]
          <mj-section background-color="#ffffff" padding="10px">
            <mj-column>
              <mj-image src="[[post.imageURL]]" alt="[[post.title]]">

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