Hit Send is now part of Ark Advance

9 June 2026

We've got some news to share, and it's the good kind.

Hit Send has joined Ark Advance. If you're a Hit Send client, the short version is this: nothing about your service changes. The same newsletters go out, planned the same way, and all you have to do is approve them before they send. What changes is that there's now a bigger team behind the scenes.

There's a nice symmetry to it for us. Email marketing was the very first thing Ark Advance did when it started back in 2002, working as consultants to businesses just getting going with email. More than twenty years later they're back working in it, and Hit Send is how they're doing it.

We think email is having a quiet moment. Paid search and social ads are great at finding new customers, and Ark runs plenty of both, but email does something different. It's the one channel you own outright, a direct line to the people who already know you, working away in the background to keep you front of mind. The best marketing uses all of these together, and bringing Hit Send into Ark Advance means we can now offer that full picture.

Hit Send was co-founded by Phil Vialoux, who has handed the business and its clients over to us. Phil was careful about who would take it forward, and we're grateful he saw Ark Advance as the right home for it.

If you're already a client, you'll keep hearing from us as usual, with a little more to offer when you need it. And if you've been thinking about email marketing, or you'd like to do more with a list you already have, we'd love to talk.

Same Hit Send. Bigger team. Here's to what's next.

- Chris Price, Ark Advance