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VANCOUVER, Washington — The partners of the award-winning PNW-based multi-family marketing agency, GTMA, are pleased to announce the appointment of Barrie Buckner as Chief Executive Officer. Buckner is an accomplished entrepreneur having started businesses in entertainment, music production, and real estate development. Over the last 20 years, he’s acquired skills as a marketing executive, sales leader, and operations expert.
Buckner succeeds Co-Founder Joshua Swanson, who is stepping down to give attention to GTMA’s recent investment, faith-based publication Worship Leader Magazine and media business Authentic Media. Swanson said, “After 12 years of success, GTMA is ready for a leader like Barrie. His passion for company culture, operational excellence, and understanding of new marketing technologies and strategies will serve our team and clients well. I’m so excited to see him take this great company to the next level.”
Barrie is an entrepreneur, owning and operating two music business endeavors. He built a music production company that produced and recorded music for radio and television commercials, partnering with advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett, BBD, Burrell Advertising, and others. He built a children’s brand named Lullaby Confessions that paired positive affirmations with music and books. Through this organization, Barrie built partnerships with Babies “R” Us, Jenny June Sleep Therapy, Nickelodeon UK, Baby First TV, and others.
Barrie joined GTMA in 2014, where he served as the Partnerships Manager, initially focusing on growing west coast business, but his territory was quickly expanded to the entire country. As a two-man team, partnering with the CEO, Barrie was responsible for growing the agency’s revenue by 233% over three years. In 2020 Barrie began to lead the company’s Account Services department, with the responsibility of running the sales team that acquires new business across the U.S. and maintaining existing business via the account management team. He’s also championed forward-thinking ideas about enhancing company culture in the new remote work environment.
"I could not be more honored and excited to lead this company," Buckner says. "Over the past nine years, it has been a constant joy to work at GTMA. I can't say enough about how talented, smart, and fun this team is. I look forward to introducing several aspects of our organization, such as web development, branding, and production, to our core multifamily developer audience."
“I can’t think of a better person to take over the leadership of GTMA,” said GTMA Co-Founder Jason Naumann. “Having worked closely with Barrie for almost a decade, I can say that his passion for excellence, his commitment to integrity, and his drive to make this company the best it can be makes him the ideal person to direct GTMA into its promising future.”
Barrie holds a bachelor’s degree in music and business from DePaul University in Chicago, Il. He married his college sweetheart, has three children, and lives by the quote his father taught him, “If you’re going to do it, do it well."
Los Angeles, CA – August 16th, 2017 – GTMA, a multifamily digital agency, announced today that Inc. magazine has ranked GTMA #511 on its 36th annual Inc. 5000, an exclusive list of the fastest-growing private companies in America. This prestigious recognition is the first of its kind for the Los Angeles, CA based creative agency.
“The entrepreneur’s dream of taking nothing and turning it into something is still alive and GTMA is proof! All we hear about these days are venture-backed businesses that scale into the stratosphere, but it’s nice to be recognized for just a good idea, hard work, building a great team, and passion,” said Joshua Swanson, CEO of GTMA. “We’re honored to be recognized and doubly honored that the multifamily industry has entrusted us with enough business to help us grow so quickly.”
This recognition comes at a time of tremendous prosperity at GTMA, which was founded with zero financial resources. GTMA, started in 2010 by Joshua Swanson and Jason Naumann, has experienced exceptional sales growth of 871% over the course of three years. In addition, the agency has increased its team by fivefold, expanded its presence to over 25 different cities across the U.S. and added over 6,000 square feet of office space to its Los Angeles, CA Headquarters.
“This honor of being #511 on the Inc. 5000 list carries with it a realization that a milestone has been reached and yet another crossroads lay ahead,” said the entrepreneur. “As an agency, we’ve come so far, but we still have a lot of room to grow in order to stay relevant and evolve ahead of the market. That’s why we choose to continuously evolve, evolve and evolve again.”
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GTMA Picks Up Awards at the Internet Advertising Competition and the ADDYs
Boutique digital agency specializing in multifamily wins big with the ADDYs and the Internet Advertising Competition. GTMA stands apart from the multifamily marketing industry as the only company recognized for integration of creative, technology, and media awards outside of multifamily.
Los Angeles, CA – April 6th, 2017 – GTMA, a multifamily digital agency, today announced wins at both the Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) and the ADDYs. The awards recognize GTMA’s innovative digital campaigns on behalf of clients and original video content created to promote GTMA brand services.
“We develop campaigns that integrate ideas, insights and technologies to tell a brand’s story and inspire user engagement,” said Joshua Swanson, CEO of GTMA. “We’re honored to be recognized by the IAC and ADDY’s judges for our approach and creative work.”
GTMA took a different approach with these videos, instead of just showing a product GTMA brought the users into the experience with a meta-style interaction. A video about retargeting services was served to users through retargeting, effectively showcasing the products capabilities creatively in a way illustrated the technique and introduced it at the same time. Using a similar approach with the award winning Canvas campaign, GTMA created a video specifically for this mobile platform to mirror the user experience, and saw user interaction and time spent in the ad nearly doubled.
GTMA’s IAC Awards:
Category/Award: Best Real Estate Social Media campaign
Entry Name: Canvas by GTMA for Apartment Marketing
Category/Award: Best Real Estate Online Video
Entry Name:Reputation Management Theatre
GTMA’s ADDY Awards:
Category: Advertising Industry Self-Promotion Film/Video/Sound
Award: Bronze
Company: GoToMyApartment
Entry Name: You've Been Retargeted
Credits: Joshua Swanson, Writer/Performer ; Jason Naumann, Director; Peter Schwartz, Editor /
Graphics; Kevin Sambells, Cinematographer
Category: Social Media, Single Execution
Award: Bronze
Entry Name: GTMA Does Canvas by Facebook Client Name: GoToMyApartment
Credits: Joshua Swanson, Writer / Host ; Jason Naumann, Director; Peter Schwartz, Art Director / Editor; Kevin Sambells, Cinematographer
To date, GTMA has garnered numerous awards and industry accolades for the successful integration of its creative, media and technology solutions that drive unique campaigns and drive measurable results for client partners.
The IAC Awards were developed by the Web Marketing Association to honor excellence in online advertising, recognize the individuals and organizations responsible and showcase award winning Internet advertising. IAC judges, comprised of professionals in the advertising and Internet worlds, selected winners based on the following criteria: creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting and use of the medium. The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDY Awards, is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year in local American Advertising Federation Club (Ad Club) competitions.
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The Winners of the 2016 W³ Awards were announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts last week. Receiving nearly 5,000 entries, the W³ Awards honors outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, Web Video, Mobile Sites/Apps & Social content created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide. The W³ Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.
GTMA and sister company Razz Interactive swept the house with eight awards for work in 2016, even taking home two awards outside the multifamily industry.
Universal Music Latin Entertainment - 2016 W3 Silver Award
The Highland Residences - Lennar Multifamily Communities - 2016 W3 Gold Award
Joya Apartments - Wood Residential Services - 2016 W3 Gold Award
Flo Technologies - 2016 W3 Silver Award
The Dinerstein Companies - 2016 W3 Silver Award
GTMA - 2016 W3 Silver Award (Video - Reputation Management Theater)
GTMA - 2016 W3 Silver Award (Video - You’ve Been Retargeted)
GTMA - 2016 W3 Silver Award (Video - Reputation Management Theater)
GTMA and Razz Interactive are sister brands who work closely in creating synergistic campaigns for multifamily clients. Razz Interactive builds beautiful apps, websites, and rewards platforms, and GTMA is hard at work telling stories that reach the millions of Americans who have incorporated the digital worlds into their daily lives with comprehensive digital marketing campaigns. Together, Razz and GTMA’s work has brought an overwhelming amount of success in leases, resident renewals, and last week -- multifamily real estate brands brought home big wins at the W³ Awards. A representative from the Dinerstein Companies praised the partnership and W³Silver Award saying:
“The Dinerstein Companies (TDC) partnered with GTMA and Razz Interactive to collaborate on a new corporate website that would take our company brand to the next level. The experience was enjoyable and resulted in a website which was exactly what I hoped for: showcasing our beautiful product shots, our company history and core values, introducing our talented leadership team, featuring company awards, our participation in community service projects and the all-important LEED green building promise. The new website design is user friendly and appeals to our investment partners and also serves as a great resource about TDC to potential new team members. The visuals, the effects, and the fresh new design allows for easy navigation to browse through our luxury developments across our National footprint.” - Meredith Savoie, Director of National Marketing at The Dinerstein Companies
GTMA and Razz Interactive weighed in on their collective wins with shared pride and a forward-looking perspective, commenting:
“I'm incredibly proud of the creative teams at GTMA and Razz. Winning 8 awards between the two agencies shows that our commitment to collaboration is keeping both companies at the forefront of digital marketing.” - Joshua Swanson, Chairman Razz Interactive, CEO GTMA
“We continue to look for ways to develop web tools that will tell engaging and informative stories, using websites. These awards are an honor and indication that our team is meeting and exceeding those goals” -Sebastian Mourra, CEO, Razz Interactive
Media Kit: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gi7dm31xc4s5fux/AAAQeZXYhKSadfdi78neXOQsa?dl=0
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