GoDaddy Airo™ Transformed Walton Goggins's Vision for his Goggle Glasses Brand into Reality

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Two-time EMMY® award-nominated actor Walton Goggins had an idea for goggle glasses but was short on time and knowledge of how to start a business. Enter GoDaddy Airo™. Goggins will star in his first Super Bowl commercial on Feb. 9 to show how GoDaddy's (NYSE: GDDY) AI-powered experience turned his idea into a thriving business.

GoDaddy Airo™ - an AI-powered experience for small business ownersGoDaddy Airo harnesses innovative AI technology to help small business owners get online faster, drive traffic to their website, boost sales and deepen their customer engagement on social media. In the U.S. alone, more than 3 million customers, including Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses, discovered the power of GoDaddy Airo. That number continues to grow as GoDaddy Airo's rollout spans 180 countries and counting. The results of the revolutionary experience are driving GoDaddy's return to Super Bowl advertising after an eight-year hiatus.

Champions Open Source Innovation by Funding Contributors and Upgrading Managed WordPress Hosting Platform

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) just invested a half-million dollars in the WordPress community through a donation to The WP Community Collective, an initiative focused on funding and empowering WordPress contributors. This monetary support will be directed towards providing financial, operational and promotional support within the greater WordPress community. GoDaddy also recently launched a redesigned Managed WordPress Hosting platform, built with developers in mind.  

TEMPE, Ariz., Jan. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) will release financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 on Thursday, February 13, 2025, after the U.S. stock market closes.

Following the news release, GoDaddy management will host a live webcast at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, which will be available on GoDaddy's Investor Relations website at https://investors.godaddy.net. To participate, please register here.

Following the webcast's completion, a recording will be available on GoDaddy's Investor Relations website.

TEMPE, Ariz., Dec. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC and GD Finance Co, LLC (each, a subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc. and together, the "Borrowers") closed the previously announced credit agreement refinancing. In connection with the closing, the Borrowers entered into a Twelfth Amendment (the "Twelfth Amendment") to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 15, 2017 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, refinanced or replaced from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), by and among the Borrowers, Desert Newco, LLC, Royal Bank of Canada as the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Swingline Lender and a Letter of Credit Issuer, and the other parties thereto. Capitalized terms used, but not defined in this news release are as defined in the Credit Agreement as amended by the Twelfth Amendment, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Where consumers shop sees stark generational divide across social platforms

TEMPE, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- New survey data by GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) found consumers are shopping on social media often, but maybe not the platforms you'd expect.

More than 1 in 5 of the 1,500 U.S. consumers surveyed in September make purchases on social media platforms at least weekly, and the top platform was… Facebook, with Millennials leading the charge(s).

TEMPE, Ariz., Dec. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) announced Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC and GD Finance Co, LLC (together with Go Daddy Operating Company, LLC, the "Borrowers") allocated a $1,463 million tranche (the "Replacement Term Loans") of term loans maturing in 2029, the proceeds of which will be used to refinance all outstanding Tranche B-6 Term Loans under the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 15, 2017 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified, refinanced or replaced from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), by and among the Borrowers, Desert Newco, LLC, the lenders and the other parties thereto (such refinancing, the "Term Loan Refinancing"). Capitalized terms used herein, but not otherwise defined herein are as defined in the Credit Agreement.

New GoDaddy survey shows 80% of young shoppers research businesses before buying

TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Maintaining an online presence is important to small businesses, but is it necessary? According to new data from GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY), if a business's target audience is Gen Z or Millennials, not having one could seriously impact their bottom line.  

A majority (80%) of 1,000 Gen Z and Millennial U.S. consumers surveyed in September shared they research small businesses online before shopping with them for the first time. They are taking extra steps to verify the credibility of a business by checking their reviews, website and social media accounts.   

TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- For many microbusiness owners, closing one venture is not the end—it's the beginning of something new.

According to GoDaddy's 2024 Annual Venture Forward report, 75% of microbusiness owners who close a business don't give up, even if their efforts didn't yield a profit. Instead, they persist, launching new ventures. Of these, 39% become the main income for their households.

TEMPE, Ariz., Nov. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) Chief Financial Officer Mark McCaffrey will present at the UBS Global Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024 at 10:15 a.m. ET / 7:15 a.m. PT as well as the Barclays Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, California on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024 at 11:40 a.m. ET / 8:40 a.m. PT.

Live audio webcasts and post-presentation audio replays of these events will be available on GoDaddy's investor relations website at https://investors.godaddy.net. 

TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2024 /CNW/ -- New research reveals that Canadian microbusiness owners are embracing Generative (Gen) AI tools to help run their businesses, with two thirds (61%) of entrepreneurs using the technology in the past few months alone.