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French|West|Vaughan takes an equity stake in San Francisco-based Big Picture PR, a consumer lifestyle PR and influencer marketing agency that works with clients in the wellness, fitness, beauty, consumer tech and retail spaces. BPPR will maintain its brand and its San Francisco office, while its Los Angeles and New York offices will combine with existing FWV offices in those cities in 2022. Amy Cunha, who founded Big Picture PR in 2004, will retain her role as its president and agency partner, overseeing the day-to-day work of the firm and its eight associates. "What we really like about the work being done by Amy and her team is it complements our existing portfolio of clients in consumer and lifestyle marketing across all of our offices, while adding a strong consumer tech practice to our agency," said FWV Chairman and CEO Rick French. BPPR joins Tampa-based pet and veterinary PR firm Fetching Communications (now FWV Fetching); Boston-based outdoor lifestyle firm CGPR; New York City-based fashion and lifestyle firm AMP3 PR; and L.A.-based film production company Prix Productions as FWV portfolio companies.
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Media.Monks, a creative production company that is part of S4Capital, is merging with Italian content marketing agency Miyagi. The deal, which is the 11th merger or combination completed by S4 Capital in 2021., is intended to add to S4's existing content, data and digital media capabilities in Italy. Miyagi has 70 staffers in its Milan office, working with such clients as Campari Group, Danone and Red Bull. "Miyagi's work and management teams looks a lot like Media.Monks a few years back," said Media.Monks CEO Victor Knapp. "With close to 100 Monks in the Italian market, and a clear focus on digital creative craft, I believe we will accomplish great things together."
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Hahn Public, which serves clients in the food and energy sectors, acquires science and analytics firm Statistical Vision. The acquisition gives the agency the ability to support clients with predictive business forecasting tools. It expands Hahn Public to a 48-person agency with combined revenues of more than $10 million annually. "Statistical Vision's, now Hahn Stats', analytical and data visualization capabilities allow us to harness massive data sets and create trend models to better equip our clients with state-of-the-art guidance, enabling them to make marketing investment decisions with great confidence," said Hahn Public principal Jeff Hahn.
Prosek Partners opens in San Francisco under the leadership of partner Nadia Damouni... Caliber Corporate Advisers, which works with clients in the fintech and financial services sectors, introduces the Caliber Authority Index (Caliber AI), a proprietary measurement platform... Herbie Thiele Consulting, a public affairs firm blending lobbying and communications, is launched by the longtime Sachs Media partner.
Bospar expands its Audit*E tool for small- and medium-sized businesses, which provides comprehensive visibility scoring, competitive analysis and platform-specific improvement recommendations, giving users actionable intelligence to help with brand positioning.... 5W is increasing its presence in Tampa and the Florida market....PR Consultants Group, a nationwide network of senior-level public relations, strategic communications and marketing specialists in more than 50 U.S. markets, has brought on 13 independently owned public relations firms across 13 markets and 12 states so far in 2026.
Real Chemistry launches MaestroHCP, which is designed to help pharmaceutical marketers plan, activate and measure HCP engagement with more speed, precision and control... Laughlin Constable Public Relations receives a Skyline Award from PRSA... 1Milk2Sugars, which has offices in New York, Toronto and Montréal, is expanding its influencer marketing offering with the establishment of a dedicated U.S.-based influencer team.
10Fold launches MetricsMatter 5.0, a proprietary communications intelligence platform that brings together earned media, social, digital, competitive performance, website activity and visibility across five leading LLMs... Stagwell increases its investment in Real Clear Holdings, publisher of political intelligence platform Real Clear Politics and creator of the RCP Poll Average... Aim & Grace, which works with tourism, hospitality and lifestyle brands, is launched by Amy Skelding and Grace Parker, who previously led Finn Partners' UK travel practice.
Weber Shandwick U.S. president Michael Wehman joins The LAGRANT Foundation board of directors... Financial Profiles, a strategic communications firm that provides companies with IR, PR. transactions and crisis communications, introduces ValueView360... Babbit Bodner, an Atlanta-based agency, is expanding to New York City.
