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PMG acquires UK-based digital marketing agency RocketMill. PMG CEO and founder George Popstefanov will lead the combined entity, leading about 900 staffers worldwide, who will all work as part of PMG. RocketMill, with a team of 200 employees across offices in London and Brighton, marks PMG’s second acquisition in its history—and its first in Europe—following the acquisition in October of Dallas-based Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media, agency buyers of video, OTT, and CTV. “Our similarities across people, offering, and ambition made RocketMill an obvious choice for accelerating our expansion into Europe. We believe this move positions us for tackling the headwinds that today’s customers face globally and reinforces our philosophy of always changing for the better,” said Popstefanov.
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Rally Point PR worked with the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts at Howard University to stand up the inaugural Bison at Basel program at Miami Art Week/Art Basel Miami Beach, which ran from Dec. 8-10. The University's goal was to increase the visibility of Black artists and specifically Howard as the premier HBCU fine arts program. Rally Point co-founder and DEI executive director Dorian Langlais helped create and promote a series of panels that brought together panelists and moderators from NPR, Sugarcane Magazine, ARTNOIR and Black artists and entrepreneurs to build on Howard's extensive network.
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PinDrop, a sports marketing agency targeting rightsholders and brands, is launched by Sean Thornley and Menino Pereira, former commercial executives at English Premier League soccer club Arsenal. The London-based agency is looking to implement partnership sales strategies, as well as “strengthening analytics capabilities, and optimizing rights packages.” The agency has already secured its first contract, announcing a partnership with Scottish soccer club Rangers. The agency will collaborate with the Glasgow club to drive revenue growth by enhancing its partnership development and research function.
Page launches the Polansky Future Leaders Fund, which was established through a gift from 2025 Page Hall of Fame inductee and former Weber Shandwick Global CEO Andy Polansky... Ruder Finn reintroduces its website, ruderfinn.com, which will now feature a large language model (LLM) as its primary user interface... Higher Plane Media is launched by former Sloane & Company CEO Darren Brandt.
Champion, which specializes in restaurant, franchise and consumer brands, opens a Miami office, adding to its operations in Dallas and Los Angeles... Violet PR, a Montclair, NJ-based firm that focuses on economic development, commercial real estate and place branding, opens a second office on Park Avenue South in New York... Inflection Point, a founder-led, senior growth systems partner for startups and growth-stage businesses, launches... PRSA announces the recipients of its inaugural Women of Impact Awards. Honorees honorees were recognized during the PRSA Women of Impact Summit & Awards at the Union League Club of Chicago.
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.
