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You are here: Home / Marketing / How to add an attachment to a Mailchimp campaign

How to add an attachment to a Mailchimp campaign

I am often asked by clients if they can send an attachment with a Mailchimp campaign. For example, a client asked this morning “can you tell us if we can attach a PDF to the EDM schedule that we are currently sending out through Mailchimp? We are trying and cannot do it”.

My response to the client was “no you can’t include an attachment on a campaign. What you can do however is host the PDF in Mailchimp and add a link to the PDF in the campaign”. Essentially what you need to do is store your file somewhere that is accessible via a URL and then as a link to your campaign to the file (you could always use a button in your campaign which links to the file).

Besides hosting your files with Mailchimp you can always save your file or files to Dropbox, Google Drive or similar and then add a link to the file in your Mailchimp campaign.

Here is a list of file types that you may store in the Mailchimp file manager. Keep in mind that the maximum filesize for each file is 10 MB.

File Type Extensions
Text files .txt, .csv, .log, .css, .ics
Image files .jpg, .jpe, .jpeg, .gif, .png, .bmp, .psd, .tif, .tiff, .svg, .indd, .ai, .eps
Document files .doc, .docx, .rtf, .odt, .ott, .pdf, .pub, .pages, .mobi, .epub
Audio files .mp3, .m4a, .m4v, .wma, .ogg, .flac, .wav, .aif, .aifc, .aiff,
Video files .mp4, .mov, .avi, .mkv, .mpeg, .mpg, .wmv
Spreadsheet files .xls, .xlsx, .ods, .numbers
Presentation files .odp, .ppt, .pptx, .pps, .key
Archive files .zip, .tar, .gz, .7z, .vcf

 

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  1. Maddy says

    March 13, 2018 at 9:24 am

    2018 – can you now?

    Reply
    • Gary says

      March 13, 2018 at 2:19 pm

      No. Mailchimp doesn’t allow sending files as attachments with email messages. Services such as Gmail are becoming more strict than ever about not showing messages that are larger than 102kb meaning that email messages with attachments have a smaller chance of being opened and read.

      Reply
  2. Mary says

    June 16, 2018 at 1:45 am

    I can link my campaign to a pdf but the pdf loses it’s page display settings. How can I get my linked pdf to hold the page display settings?

    Reply
    • Gary says

      June 18, 2018 at 7:40 am

      @Mary, all that Mailchimp does is upload the PDF file and store it. When the reader of your campaign clicks the PDF link in your campaign they are downloading the PDF from Mailchimp. It is therefore very unlikely that the PDF display issues are related to Mailchimp. What software are you using to initially save the PDF?

      Reply
  3. Kris says

    October 27, 2018 at 2:03 am

    I no longer want the link to be active. How do I delete it from MailChimp storage? I deleted the campaign but the link in the sent email is still active.

    Reply
    • Gary says

      October 28, 2018 at 10:43 am

      Kris, merely delete the file from the Mailchimp content manager.

      Reply
  4. Chris says

    November 20, 2018 at 2:31 pm

    Hi Gary,

    From what I understand, deleting the file from the Mailchimp content manager doesn’t remove the content from the “cloud”.

    i.e. Recipients of a campaign can still click the link and access a Mailchimp link to a PDF sent in a previous campaign even though that PDF file was deleted in the Mailchimp content manager.

    Please correct me if I’m wrong.

    Cheers,

    Chris

    Reply
    • Gary says

      November 21, 2018 at 8:14 am

      Hi Chris, you are correct.

      Reply
  5. Harry Grower says

    June 27, 2019 at 10:38 pm

    Gary, I am not sure that this works. Clicking the trash can on the The page on thcontent studio page gives the following warning “Are you sure you want to delete this file? This will not affect draft or sent campaigns, or active automations that include or link to this file.”

    Reply
  6. Harry Grower says

    June 27, 2019 at 10:41 pm

    Sorry Gary I did not read the thread from Chris. Question now is – can the attachment be accessed in any way, either to delete it or to update it? Thanks

    Reply
    • Gary says

      June 28, 2019 at 7:09 am

      Harry, as far as I’m aware the file can’t then be deleted or amended.

      Reply
  7. Harry Grower says

    June 28, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    Thanks Chris. This seems bizarre. There must be plenty of examples where a link is posted but then needs to be updated or changed for other reasons. Anyone out there who has a paidfor Mailchimp account and can ask them?

    Reply
    • Gary says

      June 29, 2019 at 9:47 am

      Hi Harry, I’ve posted an alternate method that will allow for updating/deleting files included as ‘attachments’ https://wp.me/pxhFk-6YT

      Reply
  8. Cintia says

    December 3, 2019 at 7:04 pm

    Hi Gary, I couldn’t find what I’m looking for related to mailchimp here, but you are an expert, so there you go. Yesterday working on new campaigns with new contacts, I deleted permanently my contacts instead of archiving them, and now I can’t add them anymore, and I do really need to send my campaigns. Please, could you help me, please? I can’t find anywhere an answer.

    Many thanks in advance.

    Regards,

    Cintia

    Reply
    • Gary says

      December 4, 2019 at 7:32 am

      Hi Cintia,
      The simplest thing to do will be to create a new Audience as then you’ll be able to re-add the deleted contacts.

      Reply

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