Momvertising Opps: Nature's Sunshine Products appoints CMO amid spend increases (Score 50)

Sales lead: This hire will affect both the company's marketing strategy & agency roster. 

  • Nature's Sunshine Products (NSP) announced Sarah Crockett will join the company as CMO on October 30th, 2023.
  • Crockett most recently served as global CMO of Dickies
  • As NSP's CMO, Crockett is tasked with introducing the brand to a new generation of customers. 

**We are unable to confirm Crockett's email address until she officially begins. Please reach out to NSP's other DMs for the time being.**

Target demographic: Gen-X & millennial women (moms)

The company will likely:

  • Continue ramping up digital ad spend
  • Experiment with additional ad channels
  • Review the agency roster

Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)

  • YTD spend: NSP spent almost $2.8m on digital display ads YTD, a 40% increase from $2m spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022. 
  • YTD data: 421.3m impressions via Facebook (79%), Instagram (19%), and desktop display (2%). 
  • 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend jumped by 50% from $2.6m in 2021 to $3.9m in 2022. 
  • Ad location: It placed 99% of these ads directly onto sites such as facebook.com, instagram.com, youtube.com, thecut.com, and engadget.com. It placed 1% of these ads indirectly through Zeta onto sites such as budgettravel.com, listenonrepeat.com, crooksandliars.com, espn.com, and uberhumor.com. 

Agency analysis:

  • Opportunity: CMO hires are the number one sign of upcoming agency reviews. 
  • Current roster:

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics