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Signal AI acquires KELP, a data analytics platform that delivers industry reputation insights and benchmarks hundreds of companies. KELP’s team will join Signal AI as full-time employees, including co-founders Dan Gaynor, who previously founded Weber Shandwick’s narrative strategy and analytics practice, and former Publicis Media head of strategy Shann Biglione. “At Signal AI, we’re already providing executives with external intelligence to help them cut through the noise and understand which topics and events are impacting their reputation.” Said Signal AI chief executive officer David Benigson. “Together with KELP, we’ll turn this data into truly actionable insight for our customers.”
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919 Marketing acquires ClickCulture, a Raleigh, NC-based web development and digital marketing company. ClickCulture will now operate under the name 919 Marketing and retain all its employees. ClickCulture founder and CEO Lloyd Jacobs will serve as 919 Marketing’s creative director, working with art directors, copywriters, web developers, PR specialists, digital marketers, videographers, and the 919 analytics team. "We can now elevate our creative capabilities to include custom applications for websites, unique digital campaigns, and elite, award-winning graphic design,” said 919 Marketing CEO and founder David Chapman.
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Propel graduates from Meta’s B2B Disruptors Program in Israel. The company was one of 16 participants in the seven-week program, which was organized by Meta’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa B2B leadership team. It covered such B2B marketing tactics as leveraging sales funnels to increase conversion rates at scale, team building and hiring, along with various workshops. "Meta’s B2B Disruptors Program in Israel helps product-led startups to leverage the industry's accelerated digital transformation processes to break through belief barriers and scale their operations,” said Jonathan Nimrodi, Meta’s head of B2B in EMEA. “Propel demonstrates the huge opportunity and potential of B2B startups on our platforms.”
FleishmanHillard is shuttering its 20-member Dublin office as Omnicom Public Relations reorganizes its global operations... Vested acquires Watermark, a D.C.-based public affairs and special situations firm.... Matter earns two Pinnacle Awards 2026 Marketing & Communications honors for its clients.
Quad/Graphics launches Direct, a Quad Agency to help marketers create, execute and measure direct marketing campaigns in one connected offering... InnoVision Marketing Group SVP/senior creative director Giselle Campos and SVP/general manager Alanna Markey are among the first-ever winners of the San Diego Business Journal’s Indispensables Awards, which recognizes professionals who make the greatest impact within their organizations and across the San Diego business community... Park Place Technologies, an IT infrastructure services firm that works with Feintuch Communications, releases the second episode of its “The Savvy CIO” podcast. 
Ripley PR is named a silver winner in the TITAN American Business Awards’ Outstanding PR Campaign category... Excellera, a corporate-advisory firm, came in at number one in deal count, as well as fourth in deal value, in Mergermarket’s list of top EMEA firms... Thunderly is telling the stories of military veterans who transferred the discipline, organization and leadership skills developed in service to their country into successful post-military careers as franchise business owners, as part of its year-long "American Dreamers: The Stories of Franchising" effort.
Legendary Boston PR man George Regan is stepping down from day-to-day management of his namesake firm. The 75-year-old will remain chairman.
CGLife, a pharma agency focused on clients who are bringing therapies for rare, specialty and hard-to-treat diseases to market, combines with AI-native agency The Considered+AI... PRSA-NY announces the shortlist for the 2026 Big Apple Awards... The Agency East Public Relations, a Fort Lauderdale–based shop that works exclusively with women business owners in the early growth stage, is expanding its practice to help women business owners get found and cited by AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, and Claude.
