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| Dave Jensen |
Regan Communications Group has launched Regan Digital Studio, which provides services that include programmatic marketing, social advertising, content marketing, inbound marketing, search engine optimization, and website and mobile app development. Headquartered in Boston, the new division is led by David Jensen, owner of boutique digital marketing agency So Big Marketing, who joins as president. Regan Digital Studio works through Regan’s existing agency offices in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Florida. “The need for digital marketing solutions is booming and the time is right for us to make a greater investment there,” said Regan Communications Group chairman George K. Regan.
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Witt O’Brien’s, which specializes in crisis and emergency management for governments and corporations, has acquired maritime crisis and corporate communications agencies Navigate PR Ltd, Navigate Response Ltd, Navigate Response Asia Pte Ltd and Helix Media Pte Ltd. (together known as “Navigate”). Based in London and Singapore, Navigate supports the owners and managers of more than 4,000 vessels across several asset classes. It also supports leading maritime organizations with a wide range of corporate communications services. Navigate’s founders Mike Elsom and Bill Lines in London and Ed Ion in Singapore will continue in leadership roles, reporting to Witt O’Brien’s managing director Sean Fitzgerald. Witt O’Brien’s is a subsidiary of SEACOR Holdings Inc.
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5W Public Relations has launched a specialty practice devoted to clients in the streaming space. Part of the firm’s technology division, the practice will focus on communicating complex technological innovations for clients in the industries of connected TV and over-the-top TV. It will offer services that include IPO media strategy, new market expansion campaigns, visibility programs, content creation, digital media campaigns, event planning, thought leadership and speaking opportunities. The Association of National Advertisers projects that the number of households with CTV technology will jump 82 percent by 2023.
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| Kristin Daher |
Powerhouse Communications president and chief storyteller Kristin Daher has been elected to the California Restaurant Association Foundation’s board of directors. CRAF is a non-profit that invests in and empowers California's restaurant workforce. Daher will utilize Powerhouse’s resources to bring awareness to the such CRAF programs as Restaurants Care, which provides emergency assistance to restaurant workers who have experienced sudden tragedies and hardships, and ProStart, which provides introductory culinary arts training and hospitality career-exploration programs for high school students.
4media group completes its acquisition of Family Features Editorial Syndicate... Illumination PR, which represents lifestyle brands, influencers and celebrities, launches DR Media Group... EAG Advertising and Marketing acquires pay-for-performance firm INK inc. Public Relations. 
LLYC launches Signs of Pride, a campaign that revives the original protest banners of the first Pride marches... The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry forms the Public Relations and Digital Marketing Working Group... Circle of One Marketing, a Miami-based, minority-owned marketing agency, is named official agency of record for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Miami. 
Vogel Group, a DC-headquartered government affairs and consulting firm, forms a strategic partnership with Montreal-based public affairs firm Boléro Stratégies... Matter Communications launches project-based offerings for B2C companies looking to increase brand awareness and visibility... Tucker/Hall, a Tampa-based PR and public affairs firm, opens a new office in Orlando. 
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