Female Millennial Opps: Younique fills top marketing position (Score 49)

Sales lead: This hire will likely lead to spend shifts & agency appointments. 

  • Younique hired Steve Lake as marketing SVP in September 2023.
  • Lake most recently served as brand & product VP at Plexus Worldwide
  • This fills the vacancy we told you about in May

Target demographic: Millennial women

The company will likely:

  • Ramp digital ad spend back up
  • Diversify digital ad placement
  • Seek agency assistance

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

  • YTD spend: Younique spent around $425k on digital display ads YTD, 52% of the $809.6k spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022. 
  • YTD data: 63.6m impressions via Facebook (99%) and Instagram (1%). 
  • 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend dropped from $3m in 2021 to just $683.1k in 2022. 
  • Ad location: It placed 100% of these ads directly onto facebook.com and instagram.com. 

Agency analysis:

  • Opportunity: Reach out to the new marketing DM now to be top-of-mind. 

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics.