(2) Best Questions on Freemium. (2) What companies, if any, have a freemium model better than Evernote's. Going Freemium: One Year Later. On September 1st, 2009 we announced that MailChimp was going freemium.
On that day, we had 85,000 users. Now, slightly more than a year later, we have more than 450,000 users. We grew our user base five times in one year. Earlier this month, we actually doubled our freemium plan from 500 subscribers to 1,000 subscribers. So now, even more people can take advantage of MailChimp’s powerful email marketing and social features.