GainShare's partner collaboration article with GoDaddy was featured in this month's Procurement Magazine. Read the full article here.

Bryan Walkey, CEO of GainShare Performance Marketing, discusses the company's partnership with GoDaddy alongside its mission and culture.

With a career spanning over 30 years, Bryan Walkey is the CEO of GainShare Performance Marketing. "I joined the firm full-time four years ago, but I've had an association as an advisor to the firm for over 30 years. Before joining as a partner and CEO, I had worked with GainShare to coordinate teams and delivery in both Toronto and Chicago. The goal today is to drive seamless delivery and results across teams, tactics and markets."

Known as Northern Lights Direct for more than 35 years, the company recently rebranded as GainShare Performance Marketing. "We started in DRTV, and so we felt it best to change our brand name to better represent who we are today. We now do so much more than direct response TV. As a performance marketer, we coordinate the customer journey across all channels, and weat s wanted to ensure we showcased that scope."

GainShare's relationship with GoDaddy

Discussing GainShare's partnership with GoDaddy, Walkey explains, "GoDaddy is a performance culture, and they're looking for a high return on their ad spend, and we help them accomplish that and acquire customers in the most efficient way possible. We provide strategy, media planning, buying, optimization, and analytics. We work with a number of their teams, including performance & brand video, creative and business intelligence."

"With GoDaddy, it is truly a collaborative effort. We feel like we're part of their team. Because they're a performance-driven company, they hold us to account every day, every week, and every month. We're in contact with them multiple times a day, measuring daily and continually optimizing. At the end of the day, it is all about performance," he adds.

What makes GainShare different from its competitors?

"As a performance marketer, we provide transparency, accountability, and we're driving return on investment, return on ad spend," begins Walkey. "There's been a lot of moaning in the marketing community about procurement driving the price to zero. Well, we believe it's essential to drive the cost of marketing and investments directly to the bottom line. We are excited to work with CMOs, CFOs, and Procurement equally because we're focused on business outcomes," he continues.

"We talk about return on investment, return on ad spend, we profess transparency and accountability, all things that resonate with both procurement and finance. We deal with the marketing team on the things that are important to them. And we plan and answer procurement on the things that are important to them as well. So, it's a true business relationship."