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JConnelly acquires AdvisorPR, a Las Vegas-based public relations and marketing company that specializes in working with wealth management firms. AdvisorPR founder Alana Kohl and her team will operate AdvisorPR as a division within JConnelly's financial practice group. Founded in 2003, JConnelly represents brands in sectors including financial services, technology, entertainment, health and wellness, and food and beverage. "We are constantly looking for ways to add complementary services and offerings to the marketplace. AdvisorPR's passion for results and innovation fits in well with our overall mission and vision," said JConnelly president and CEO Ray Hennessey.
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Connext, a communications consultancy, is joining AMF Media Group, effective Feb. 1. Connext Services will become an offering of AMF. Connext founder and CEO René Siegel will be a partner at AMF Media Group and Shandy Dunn, currently president of Connext, will be president of the Connext Services division of AMF. AMF’s Connext Services will offer B2B and B2C expertise in the tech, healthcare and medical device industries, complementing AMF’s existing focus areas of healthcare, professional services, tourism, nonprofits, education, real estate and government. “By combining our strengths and teams, AMF will be able to provide a wider, more flexible range of services to clients in more industries,” said AMF Media Group CEO Vintage Foster.
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Propel of Tel Aviv launches Propel Monitoring 2.0, a platform focused on letting agency PR teams measure share of voice, sentiment, volume over time, volume by tier, and volume by media type. Users of the platform can monitor their brands, competitors or keywords across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook as well as online news sites, blogs, forums, TV channels and radio stations around the world. Propel, which also has teams in London and Miami, serves clients that include The Daily Mail, W2O, Google and Textron.
Fire on the Hill, and Fourth Day, along with its sister company Quatrième Jour, are merging... 5W publishes a study that says many long-time media heavy hitters are coming up short in terms of their AI influence... EducationDynamics, a higher education marketing and enrollment management company, acquires Net Natives... Mark Allen & Co. is launching an expanded thought leadership model with multiple activations at Cannes Lions 2026. 
4media group acquires The CauseWay Agency, a purpose-driven communications agency specializing in public service announcements... Featured, an AI co-pilot for PR, launches a platform that will allow PR professionals and subject-matter experts to find media opportunities, submit pitches, and land featured placements... IPREX, a global network of independent communications and marketing agencies, brings on Heidi Otway of SalterMitchell PR in Florida as global president.
Montieth & Company introduces M&Co Litigation Intelligence... BERA.ai, a brand measurement platform that ties brand equity to revenue and business growth, introduces BERA LLM Brand Rankings... Matter launches its PR Media Group.
PRSA adds author and branding expert Sally Hogshead and three-time Daytime Emmy Award-winning journalist and entrepreneur Gaby Natale to the keynote lineup for ICON 2026, its annual conference for public relations and communications professionals... Publicity for Good founder and CEO Heather Holmes releases “Seen by AI, Found by Customers”... 5W AI Communications publishes “The 5W Retrieval Index — Volume I: The AI Retrieval Economy, 2026.
Edelman launches Edelman Intelligence, bringing together the firm’s proprietary AI solutions, data science, research, analytics and predictive intelligence capabilities into a unified organization... Havas Paris is acquiring Format, an agency specializing in next‑generation corporate influence communications... Trevelino/Keller launches Exec-AI, a solution aimed at demonstrating the power of executive visibility across generative AI platforms as well as measuring an executive's contributing visibility lift on the companies they lead.
