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MERGE, a Chicago-based marketing and technology agency, acquires strategic consulting firm Blazer. The acquisition marks the launch of MERGE’s new cross-functional offering. Blazer CEO Gregory Ng’s experience in transformation strategy, rooted in organizational consulting, data science, and advanced analytics, will expand MERGE’s ability to build tailored solutions. Ng, along with his team, will join MERGE’s integrated offerings team under chief digital officer Libby Morgan. “Blazer brings a data-driven and business-minded consulting approach that sharpens our strategic lens to serve the health and consumer industries we know so well with increasingly holistic outcomes,” said MERGE CEO Stephanie Trunzo.
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Fintech Digital, a financial services digital marketing agency that works with both traditional banks and fintech innovators, launches a subscription-based web3 and blockchain marketing service. Each engagement includes a marketing-trained, regulation-aware AI agent developed by the agency. The agents are built to be used by internal marketing teams at crypto firms as a way of adding efficiency and capacity expansion to their marketing team. The subscription offering is built around a flexible pricing model and includes access to senior strategists, multi-channel content execution, SEO and brand storytelling. “Having already served some of the largest blockchains and banks, the intersection of the two is the thing that really started to get us even more excited in a space that was a natural progression of the use of our resources, skills and talent,” said Fintech Digital CEO and founder Josh Meyer.
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Montieth & Company is holding a free webinar that will discuss how to navigate high-stakes crisis communication during arbitration. It will also provide strategies for managing media silence, speculation and messaging when disclosure is limited or impossible. “Litigation vs. Arbitration,” which takes place at 2 p.m. ET on June 17 (register here), is geared toward litigators, in-house counsel and crisis communications professionals, and will share real-world scenarios and case studies to highlight how proactive planning and early comms involvement can mitigate fallout and safeguard long-term credibility.
Precision Strategies, an integrated strategy and marketing agency with offices in Washington and New York, acquires Firehouse Strategies, a DC-based public affairs firm... AVENIR GLOBAL acquires London-based Thinks Insight & Strategy... Good Company, which bills itself as a “cultural engineering firm,” is launched by DJ Hardy, a veteran of Johannesburg-based communications consultancy arxna and M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and Casey Stickles, who has worked at 5WPR, Rubenstein and MWW.
PSC (Princeton Strategic Communications) acquires Nonprofit Partners... CG Life launches 24/364, a cultural brand platform intended to drive awareness, connection and action aimed at keeping rare disease at the forefront of the health and social conversation... Interluxe Group, which focuses on brand experiences and in-person activations; Quinn, a strategic communications agency; and media and digital agency North & Warren are uniting under the Interluxe Group banner.
KITH, which provides corporate reputation and crisis preparation services, is now owned by CEO Stephanie Craig, who has been with the firm since 2021... The Marketing Cloud, a part of Stagwell, introduces several expansions to Agent Cloud, the platform it launched in October 2025 to simplify access to its AI tools and marketing assistants.... Notified launches its AI Press Release Optimizer.
V2 Communications launches its AI Visibility Solution and Earned Media at Scale, two service offerings designed to help companies increase visibility and credibility in generative search... The Public Relations Global Network brings on Greenough Communications as its Boston member agency... DBC is relaunching The DBC Industry Calendar as a free site to help communicators more easily discover relevant events and awards in the cluttered event landscape driven by the growth of webinars and online events. 
PAN releases new original research showing that a significant share of B2B citations surfaced by ChatGPT are inaccurate, misattributed or entirely fabricated, introducing a new credibility risk for brands... REQ, which has offices in DC and San Diego, opens in Phoenix... Notified introduces Market Intelligence, an addition to its all-in-one IR Hub, which gives IR teams a more streamlined way to prepare for earnings calls.
