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title: "In-line vs. Hosted images"
slug: "in-line-vs-hosted-images"
tags: ["Hyperlinks", "Image", "In-Line images", "Screenshots"]
updated: 2025-12-11T21:36:57Z
published: 2025-12-11T21:36:57Z
canonical: "help.opensense.com/in-line-vs-hosted-images"
---

> ## Documentation Index
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# In-line vs. Hosted images

We recommend in-line images for all Microsoft Office 365 customers

## Which approach is right for you? Let's take a look at the pros and cons

- Opensense now allows you to decide whether the images that appear in your email signature should be hosted images (served via URL), or in-line (embedded within the body of the email)

### Why does this feature matter?

- By default, some email clients will automatically block hosted images from being downloaded. The ability to enable in-line images prevents this issue from occurring

### How does this affect campaign analytics?

- Opensense applies a proprietary approach to enabling campaign analytics to be unaffected regardless of which method you utilize. This means that you can get the benefit of in-line images AND banner view analytics

### That sounds great! So why the article?

- Well, there are some aspects of in-line images that aren't great. For instance, since the images are embedded in the email, they may take up space on your recipient's email server.
- More of an issue is the fact that email clients often don't fully understand how to treat in-line images. After a few email exchanges, you may notice that in-line images end up as attachments
- There isn't a whole lot that can be done about this. It's a known issue of this method of embedding images, and would persist with or without Opensense
- Here's a handy guide for understanding the Pros and Cons of each approach

![Screen Shot 2018-11-18 at 5.31.33 PM](https://cdn.document360.io/05b0e12d-96a6-4b75-a423-672ab2be88d7/Images/Documentation/inlineHosted1.png)

![Screen Shot 2018-11-18 at 5.17.38 PM](https://cdn.document360.io/05b0e12d-96a6-4b75-a423-672ab2be88d7/Images/Documentation/inlineHosted2.png)

## Related Articles

- [How to Setup In-Line Images](https://opensense.document360.io/docs/how-to-set-up-inline-images)