We just launched a new feature in MailChimp, where we automatically generate a mobile friendly version of your email campaign, and send it to your mobile subscribers.
For example, if your HTML email looks like this:
and one of the subscribers on your list had the “mobile” preference selected when they signed up for your list:

the email they receive would be automatically formatted for their mobile device, like this:
Generally, images are smaller, and content is stacked into a single column.
If you’d like this enabled for your MailChimp campaigns, make sure that your signup forms have this option checked under your list “defaults” setting:
If your signup forms already had this option on, then the feature is retroactively automatic. If you’re using your own code for your signup form (advanced mode) then you’ll need to add a “mobile” option to your code for this to work.
And speaking of mobile email marketing:
- Check how your email campaigns render on some mobile devices with our Inbox Inspector
- MailChimp campaign archives auto-detect mobile browsers
- MailChimp for iPhone
- MailChimp for Android
- MailChimp Yahoo Mobile Widget
- Pre-headers and mobile devices
- Mobile Email Design Tip: The 250px Magic Box



Hi there!
I’m working with mGive, which runs all the mobile giving campaigns. (You know, Text KETTLE to 90999 to support The Salvation Army, etc.). They have an API to collect mobile phone numbers from Web visitors and move those numbers into their mobile campaign. We’d rather keep it all in one place at MailChimp. Any chance of integrating an outside field (from mGive) into a MailChimp form? We can only get the mobile giving to happen through mGive. But I don’t want to harvest all that data and sync it up to MailChimp…
Hi Alice,
My guess is that, since mobile marketing is very strictly regulated, mGive is not going to want to allow you to import mobile numbers into their system from an outside source. Unless they’ve worked it into their system to “confirm the opt-in” upon import.
We’ll contact them to see if they have some kind of API. Might help if you suggest the feature to them too.
Which mobile devices do you get a preview for in the Inbox Inspector?
Thanks!
I’m just going to throw this out there, am I the only one who thinks the mobile version looks terrible? Is there any chance we might have control over how it looks?
Yes, the mobile version looks terrible. Could I put a custom rss feed for the mobile version of my newsletter ?
Ben,
Is there any way for us to design our own mobile version, or do we need to use the automatically created version the MailChimp creates?
Thanks!
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