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Red Havas Group launches SWAY by Red Havas, an end-to-end influencer marketing service designed to help clients drive brand conversation through influencers. The service works with PR, social and experiential marketing teams within the agency to develop social-first marketing campaigns with influencers. Its approach includes a five-step best practice framework, a strategic cadence roadmap, defined role of channel for all social media platorms, access to data and social tools and custom-built proxy measurement frameworks for campaign evaluation and reporting. “Across the Red Havas Group we have been working in this area for a number of years now and presently are working with more than 100 brands and organizations on their influencer activity, so it's a natural next step to formalize and focus on this as a global practice,” said James Wright, global CEO of the Red Havas Group and global chairman of the Havas PR Global Collective.
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Gravity Global acquires 9thWonder, a marketing agency with offices in North America, South America and Asia. The acquisition grows Gravity Global by 40 percent, accelerating its U.S. expansion, and deepening its global, data- and tech-enabled teams. Gravity Global, which was founded in 2009 by Mark Lethbridge, Paul Anderson and Sean Feast and is now backed by Elysian Capital, has completed eight acquisitions in the last four years. 9thWonder is its fourth US acquisition in the last 15 months. “With the integration of 9thWonder we will have more than 500 specialists across 14 locations working together as ‘one-team’ to build our clients’ businesses,” said Lethbridge.
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Jummar PR & Communication, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is elected to partnership in PROI Worldwide. Founded in 2021, Jummar specializes in corporate communications, PR, content creation and media engagement strategies and solutions. The agency works with clients in sectors including finance, real estate, aviation, education, media, energy, sustainability, e-commerce, entertainment and artificial intelligence. “Jummar brings an extensive understanding of the local culture and social/economic context in Saudi Arabia that will greatly benefit our partners,” said Jeff Lambert, PROI Worldwide global chair and chair of Lambert Global.
The PHA Group, which has offices in London, Manchester and Leeds, is expanding to New York... The Next Solutions Group launches NSG Health... Rational 360, a DC-based firm, has relocated to an 18,000-square-foot space on the city’s K Street business corridor... KAOH Media, a firm specializing in clean energy, sustainable infrastructure, and ESG-driven investments, launches Fieldwise Civic Engagement.
SKDK merges with digital advertising firm Wavelength Strategy... Supreme Group launches Supreme Intelligence, an artificial intelligence platform designed to meet the commercial needs of healthcare and life sciences companies... Relevance International introduces Artificial Intelligence Amplification Optimization, a proprietary service designed to help brands create a competitive advantage for AI visibility... IMAGINE PR introduces a brand partnerships division, which will focus on ensuring that partnerships are meaningful and measurable, rather than transactional.
SourceCode Communications acquires Rally Point Public Relations... Ruder Finn launches its AI Accelerator, a set of tools and capabilities that will be embedded across client work, agency workflows, and talent recruitment and development, as a way of building AI-native expertise across disciplines... Ceisler Media & Issue Advocacy, a communications, media strategy and public relations firm, is merging with Athena Global Advisors. 
MikeWorldWide launches a supply chain, logistics, and infrastructure practice... Kroll introduces two practices: Kroll Economics and Decision Intelligence... Orange Orchard founder Heather Ripley is hosting a free 60-minute live masterclass on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 1 p.m. EST to help animal sanctuaries earn meaningful earned media coverage and turn that visibility into stronger community support.
Stagwell agencies Doner and Colle McVoy form a “strategic alliance” that will operate as DonerColle Partners... Merryman Communications, a healthcare marketing and communications agency, rebrands as M+... Crowe PR launches Crowe Media platform... Tauth Labs, which provides content authentication solutions for clients in the communications, financial services and local government sectors, has been certified by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.
