Beehiiv has employed Darren Chait as its first chief advertising officer, bringing on the previous Calendly progress government because the e-newsletter platform pushes deeper into the creator financial system, based on its chief government Tyler Denk.

Chait, who formally started the position on Monday, will oversee positioning, demand technology, and advertising operations as Beehiiv expands past its origins as a e-newsletter publishing device, based on Tyler Denk.

“We’ve outgrown the e-newsletter platform,” Chait instructed ADWEEK in an interview. “Now we have tens of thousands and thousands who know us that approach, however now we have ambitions to develop deeper and wider.”

Darren Chait joined Beehiiv this week as its first CMO.Beehiiv

The corporate, based in 2021 by former Morning Brew operators, has grown quickly alongside the e-newsletter growth. It now reaches greater than 400 million readers every month and sends almost 3 billion emails month-to-month, based on Denk. 

It additionally counts roughly 55,000 energetic customers, together with publishers similar to 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 e-newsletter advert community. The company expects revenue to reach between $50 million and $55 million in 2026, based on Denk.

Product-led progress experience

The corporate’s progress has traditionally been pushed by its product reasonably than conventional advertising.

However Beehiiv’s ambitions have grown alongside its product suite, which prompted the corporate to usher in a chief marketer.

In November, the company released a slate of 10 new tools—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 previous approach was to sew collectively Mailchimp, Squarespace, and a few advert device,” Denk mentioned on the time. “Having the whole lot built-in offers creators an enormous benefit.”