Beehiiv has employed Darren Chait as its first chief advertising and marketing officer, bringing on the previous Calendly progress govt because the publication platform pushes deeper into the creator economic system, in response to its chief govt Tyler Denk.
Chait, who formally started the position on Monday, will oversee positioning, demand era, and advertising and marketing operations as Beehiiv expands past its origins as a publication publishing device, in response to Tyler Denk.
“We’ve outgrown the newsletter platform,” Chait instructed ADWEEK in an interview. “We have tens of millions who know us that way, but we have ambitions to grow deeper and wider.”
The firm, based in 2021 by former Morning Brew operators, has grown quickly alongside the publication growth. It now reaches greater than 400 million readers every month and sends practically 3 billion emails month-to-month, in response to Denk.
It additionally counts roughly 55,000 energetic customers, together with publishers resembling TIME and The Boston Globe, in addition to main creators like Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Ringer.
Beehiiv ended 2025 with about $23 million in annual recurring income and roughly $34 million in complete income, together with its rising publication advert community. The firm expects income to succeed in between $50 million and $55 million in 2026, in response to Denk.
Product-led progress experience
The firm’s progress has traditionally been pushed by its product somewhat than conventional advertising and marketing.
But Beehiiv’s ambitions have grown alongside its product suite, which prompted the corporate to herald a chief marketer.
In November, the corporate launched a slate of 10 new instruments—together with an AI-powered web site builder, podcast pages, digital product gross sales, and analytics—and repositioned itself as a broader platform for creators and publishers.
“The old way was to stitch together Mailchimp, Squarespace, and some ad tool,” Denk mentioned on the time. “Having everything integrated gives creators a big advantage.”