Digital B2B Opps: Nasuni hires marketing chief amid YTD spend increases (Score 49)

Sales lead: Contact the new CMO for more details about his future plans.

  • Nasuni hired Asim Zaheer as CMO, effective October 2023.
  • Zaheer most recently served as CMO of Glassbox. 
  • He is tasked with leading go-to-market strategy and growth. 

Target demographic: Businesses that need cloud storage

The company will likely:

  • Keep increasing digital spend
  • Try new ad channels
  • Build out the agency roster

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

  • YTD spend: Nasuni spent about $80.6k on digital display ads YTD, a significant increase from $17.1k spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022. 
  • YTD data: 9.9m impressions via mobile display (61%) and desktop display (39%). 
  • 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend fell 64% from $56k in 2021 to $20.3k in 2022. 
  • Ad location: It placed 95% of these ads directly onto sites such as youtube.com, kohls.com, techtarget.com, breitbart.com, and meaww.com. It placed 5% of these ads indirectly through Google AdX+AdSense and Rubicon Project onto sites such as techrepublic.com, local12.com, wpde.com, wwmt.com, and idahonews.com. 

Agency analysis:

  • Opportunity: CMO hires are the number one sign of upcoming agency appointments.
  • Current roster:
    • Waters Agency: Communications

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics