One person started writing. 80,000 started reading.
Chrisman Commentary began as a daily email from a mortgage industry veteran to a handful of colleagues. It grew because it was useful. No marketing budget. No paid acquisition. Just a trusted voice, every morning, for more than 18 years.
It started with one person's observations.
Rob Chrisman entered mortgage banking more than 40 years ago. Over the next two decades he worked across origination, secondary marketing, capital markets, and servicing. He saw every cycle, every crisis, and every shift in the industry from the inside.
Around 2008, he started sending a daily email to colleagues. Short, direct, data-first. What happened yesterday, what it means today, what to watch tomorrow. No press releases. No spin. Just what the industry needed to know, written by someone who’d spent a career learning how to read the signals.
That email became Chrisman Commentary. It grew because people forwarded it. The colleague list became a subscriber list. The subscriber list became the largest and most engaged daily audience in mortgage.
Today, Chrisman Commentary is a media company. The daily newsletter is still the anchor. But around it, Robbie Chrisman has built a daily podcast, a network of video shows, a provider marketplace, a job board, and a thought leadership platform that reaches the most influential audience in mortgage.
The editorial voice hasn’t changed. Short sentences. No jargon. Data first, opinion second. The occasional dad joke. Rob still writes the daily commentary. That consistency is what makes everything else possible.
The modernization is what makes it a platform. Every new channel, every new show, every new product is built to amplify the trust Rob earned over four decades. Not to replace it.
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Rob Chrisman
More than 40 years in mortgage banking. Writes the daily commentary. The editorial voice, the industry authority, and the reason 80,000 people open their inbox every morning. Career spans First California Mortgage, Tuttle & Co., OnCall Mortgage, and RPM Mortgage. Has served on multiple industry boards.
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Robbie Chrisman
Drives the transformation from newsletter to platform. Hosts the daily podcast. Leads business development, sponsorship relationships, and the show network expansion. Background: SoFi (Director of Capital Markets), TMS, Riivos, MCT. University of Texas graduate.
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Anjelica Nixt
Manages sponsor relationships, campaign execution, and partner success across all platforms.
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Jake Perkins
Leads web development, Marketplace platform, job board, and the operational infrastructure.
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Marie Chrisman
Manages billing, bookkeeping, and day-to-day business operations for Chrisman Commentary.
Daily Commentary
Rob Chrisman's daily analysis of mortgage industry news, rates, regulatory developments, and market moves. Published every weekday morning since 2008.
80,000+ subscribers · 59% open rate
Daily Podcast
Robbie Chrisman hosts the daily podcast — commentary in audio form plus interviews with industry leaders, CEOs, and subject matter experts. All major platforms.
30,000+ weekly listeners · 3M annual streams
Video Shows
Weekly and monthly shows covering capital markets, origination, compliance, technology, housing policy. Distributed across LinkedIn, YouTube, and the Chrisman website.
10+ distribution channels
Marketplace
A directory of 100+ mortgage technology and service providers with profiles, demos, pricing, and side-by-side comparisons.
4,000+ monthly active users · 14 categories
Job Board
The largest mortgage-specific job board in the industry. From promoted listings to full-service assisted recruiting for executive placements.
8,000-10,000 monthly unique visitors
Thought Leadership
Contributed articles from industry executives — CEOs, attorneys, analysts, and senior leaders — published on the Chrisman platform and distributed to 80,000+ subscribers.
30+ contributors · 7 editorial sections
Not just big. Concentrated.
A lot of publications claim large subscriber lists. What makes Chrisman different is who’s reading and how they’re reading. This isn’t a casual scroll-and-skip audience. These are professionals who open the newsletter at their desk during market hours, read it on desktop, and use it to make decisions.
31 percent of subscribers are decision-makers. Over 3,000 are C-suite executives. 97 percent of clicks happen on desktop during business hours. The open rate is 59 percent — roughly three times the industry average for B2B newsletters.
The audience isn’t just reachable. It’s the right audience, in the right context, at the right moment.
Daily subscribers
Open rate (3x industry average)
Decision-makers
C-suite subscribers
Desktop clicks during market hours