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In January 2016, almost two thousand different campaigns, organizations, and committees used ActBlue to raise more than $34M from 1.2M contributions.

More and more people are signing up for Express accounts and saving their credit card information, which makes it easy for them to give again. More than 70% of contributions made in January 2016 came from Express users. There’s a reason we call them our power users!

Topline Numbers

Jan. ’13 Jan. ’14 Jan. ’15 Jan. ’16
Contributions 99,494 223,393 226,962 1,229,971
Total Amount $3,446,702 $7,975,991 $6,234,257 $34,124,336
Avg. Contribution Size $34.64 $35.70 $27.47 $27.74
Unique Campaigns, Committees, and Organizations 764 1,603 1,154 1,939

 

Mobile

Jan. ’13 Jan. ’14 Jan. ’15 Jan. ’16
% Mobile 9.2% 19.7% 25.3% 38.6%
% Mobile for
Express Users
12.2% 22.8% 27.2% 41.2%

 

Customer Service

For January 2016, our customer service team handled an average of 642 email conversations a day.

JAN. ’16
Total Incoming Calls 16,287
Email Conversations 19,908

Express

170k indivudals signed up for Express accounts in January 2016, which is the second most in our history. Now, we’re up to 2,207,438 Express Users — people who have saved their payment information with ActBlue.

Jan. ’13 Jan. ’14 Jan. ’15 Jan. ’16
New Express Users 14,275 18,728 10,630 170,132
% of Total Volume
via Express Users
47.7% 47.2% 57.8% 66.1%
% of Contributions
via Express Users
55.2% 54.0% 60.2% 70.7%

 

Recurring

So far this cycle, the percentage of total dollar amount from recurring contributions is double compared to all of the 2014 cycle. In other words, we’re $14M past last cycle’s total recurring total.

Jan. ’13 Jan. ’14 Jan. ’15 Jan. ’16
Total Recurring Volume $282,875 $739,220 $2,515,406 $7,713,541
% of Total Volume 8.2% 9.3% 40.3% 22.6%

 

 

If you have questions or comments, feel free to reach out at info@actblue.com.

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