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MarketerHire Hiring Trends: January 2021 Edition

Mae Rice
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February 7, 2021
MarketerHire Hiring Trends: January 2021 Edition
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It’s our first hiring pie chart of the year! In 2021, growth marketers have remained a favorite with MarketerHire customers. However, some hiring patterns shifted in January, too: Companies hired fewer paid social media marketers than they did in December, and more email and content marketers.

Email marketers likely spiked because customers wanted to retain their influx of holiday customers, said MarketerHire’s director of marketing Tracey Wallace — plus, email is hot right now, between HubSpot acquiring the Hustle (for eight figures!) and the escalating “newsletter arms race” among Substack, Twitter and Facebook. 

Apple’s forthcoming privacy update is “100% playing a part” in these trends, too, Wallace said — marketing teams want to “ramp up owned channels” while uncertainty haloes paid ones.

‍Want to hire an expert freelance marketer through MarketerHire? Get started here.

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Mae Rice is editor in chief at MarketerHire. A long-time content marketer, she loves learning about the weird and wonderful feedback loops that connect marketing and culture.
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MarketerHire Hiring Trends: January 2021 Edition

September 8, 2023
February 7, 2021
Mae Rice

In the first month of 2021, email marketers and content marketers took up larger slices of the hiring pie, while paid social media marketing hires dropped MoM.

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This is an excerpt from MarketerHire's weekly newsletter, Raisin Bread. To get a tasty marketing snack in your inbox every week, subscribe here.

Source: MarketerHire

It’s our first hiring pie chart of the year! In 2021, growth marketers have remained a favorite with MarketerHire customers. However, some hiring patterns shifted in January, too: Companies hired fewer paid social media marketers than they did in December, and more email and content marketers.

Email marketers likely spiked because customers wanted to retain their influx of holiday customers, said MarketerHire’s director of marketing Tracey Wallace — plus, email is hot right now, between HubSpot acquiring the Hustle (for eight figures!) and the escalating “newsletter arms race” among Substack, Twitter and Facebook. 

Apple’s forthcoming privacy update is “100% playing a part” in these trends, too, Wallace said — marketing teams want to “ramp up owned channels” while uncertainty haloes paid ones.

‍Want to hire an expert freelance marketer through MarketerHire? Get started here.

Mae Rice
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Mae Rice is editor in chief at MarketerHire. A long-time content marketer, she loves learning about the weird and wonderful feedback loops that connect marketing and culture.

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