Dotdigital is an online marketing company listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange as Dotdigital Group PLC under the ticker DOTD. It is an email, marketing automation, and customer engagement service provider, and in 2015 was the UK's largest email marketing automation provider with a capitalization of about £290m.
The company headquarters is at No.1 London Bridge, with offices in London, Croydon, Manchester, Cheltenham, New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Sydney, Cape Town, and Warsaw.
History
The company was founded in 1999 by David Ivy, Lewis Barclay, Simon Bird, Iain Anderson and Colin Dawson as Ellipsis Media, a web design agency based in Croydon, United Kingdom. Within twelve months Tink Taylor joined the directors. Briefly Dan Gerrett accompanied him as an early employee. Afterward the company was renamed to dotmailer.
Its mail provider was launched in 2002, built especially for the BBC. In 2008 dotmailer became a PLUS market listed PLC, opened its first Manchester office and was included in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500.
The company was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2009. In that year it also opened its third office in Edinburgh, introduced share options for staff and was the recipient of a National Business Award.