headquarters ponce city market atlanta georgia key people ben chestnut founder ceo products email marketing number of employees 500 1 parent rocket science group 2 website www.mailchimp.com mailchimp is an email marketing service and the trading name of its operator an american company founded in 2001 . 3 by june 2014 it was sending over 10 billion emails per month on behalf of its users . 4 mailchimp began as a paid service and added a freemium option eight years later . 5 it was originally going to be called chimpmail but the name was changed after the company discovered that they could not get that domain name . 6 the company s logo is a chimpanzee and the site includes numerous chimp related graphics and humor on its website and in its communications . 7 as a podcast advertiser mailchimp also sponsored the launch of serial a podcast exploring a murder case over multiple episodes . during the series parodies of serial have targeted several of the show s aspects including the podcast s sponsor especially the meme mailkimp . 8 9 mailchimp s role as a sponsor made it into a spoof of the podcast during an episode from saturday night live . 10 mandrill controversy edit in february 2016 mailchimp announced it was merging mandrill transactional email service into mailchimp as an add on feature and gave customers 60 days notice to switch to the new pricing structure or find an alternate service platform . 11 the announcement was met with widespread criticism and customer outrage due to the new pricing structure requiring a paid mailchimp plan before being able to purchase mandrill credits resulting in customers paying for two products in order to access mandrill . 12 previously customers were able to purchase mandrill credits for sending emails without signing up on mailchimp . pricing for the credits was originally priced at 9.95 for 25 000 emails but increased to 20 for the same amount of emails under the new pricing scheme . 13 in addition to needing to purchase mandrill credits customers now need to be on a paid mailchimp monthly plan the minimum monthly plan being 10 a month even if the customer has no need for mailchimp services and only wants access to mandrill . mandrill is being renamed to mailchimp transactional . 14 references edit mailchimp s about us . retrieved 2016 07 22 . rocket science group . retrieved 2012 10 05 . mailchimp crunchbase profile . crunchbase.com . retrieved 2013 06 17 . mailchimp hits milestone 10 billion emails per month ; adding headcount and office space . retrieved 8 december 2015 . ben 2010 09 27 . going freemium one year later mailchimp email marketing blog . blog.mailchimp.com . retrieved 2013 06 17 . interview with mailchimp co founder and ceo ben chestnut . doeswhat . 2012 09 26 . retrieved 2013 06 17 . ben 2008 09 11 . new mailchimp logo by jon hicks mailchimp email marketing blog . blog.mailchimp.com . retrieved 2013 06 17 . roe mike november 8 2014 . serial the hottest podcast with the most spot on parodies . 89.3 kpcc . retrieved november 12 2014 . fitzpatrick molly november 6 2014 . why are serial podcast fans so obsessed with mailchimp . v cative . vocativ . retrieved november 12 2014 . grossman samantha 2014 12 22 . watch snl s hilarious christmas themed serial parody . time.com . retrieved 2015 08 20 . in hostile move mandrill gives all developers 60 days to switch to paid mailchimp service . mailchimp s mandrill move enrages email users . important changes to mandrill . important changes to mandrill . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mailchimp & oldid 742935044 categories email marketing softwareinternet marketing companiescloud applicationshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal e tinaespa olpolski edit links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 19 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view