Recent hires:
- Brian Cooke joined as growth & performance marketing VP in July 2022.
- Edgar Iskandar joined as marketing strategy & operations director in February 2022.
- Ryan Tuosto joined as marketing director in March 2022.
MailChimp's target demographic: Entrepreneurs
The company will likely:
- Continue ramping up ad spend
- Increase promotional activity
- Seek additional sponsorship opportunities
Broadcast insights (TV ad creative spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: MailChimp spent close to $21m on national TV ads YTD.
- Last year: Full-year spend equaled $3.9m in 2021.
- It did not allocate any budget toward this channel in 2020.
- 2022 ad programming: It placed ads during programming such as NFL Football, The Golden Girls, America's Newsroom, MLB Baseball, and Friends.
Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: MailChimp spent nearly $21.5m on digital display ads YTD.
- YTD data: 2.5b impressions via desktop video (52%), Twitter (25%), Facebook (11%), desktop display (9%), Instagram (3%), mobile display (1%), and mobile video (1%).
- Last year: Full-year spend jumped from $7.5m in 2020 to $19.8m in 2021.
- Ad location: It placed 93% of these ads directly onto sites such as youtube.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, theguardian.com, and instagram.com. It placed 7% of these ads through multiple indirect channels onto sites such as yahoo.com, ebay.com, espn.com, fandom.com, and theguardian.com.
Additional channel insights
- MailChimp also utilizes OOH and local broadcast.
Agency analysis:
- Opportunity: Reach out to offer sponsorship, creative, PR, digital, & social media assistance.
- Current roster:
- PHD USA: media AOR
- Apollo Partners: media planning
Insight Sources: Broadcast insights estimated by Kantar.