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TEAM LEWIS, a London-headquartered agency with 27 offices across Asia, EMEA and North America, launches Catalyst, a multi-million-dollar fund and service designed to support marketing and communications agencies under financial pressure. The fund will take majority and minority equity stakes in all types of marketing and communications agencies around the world. It will provide expertise, technology, legal and financial assistance. In most instances, an initial assessment response will be made within 48 hours, with all requests treated confidentially. TEAM LEWIS says its status as an independent firm, not driven by corporate structures, portfolio priorities and shareholder pressures, give it the opportunity to step in credibly and flexibly. "The combined challenge of shrinking budgets, changing technology and rising staff costs have created the perfect storm for many agencies. The recent wave of bankruptcies that we’ve seen point to the challenging conditions of our times.,” said TEAM LEWIS chief operating officer Yvonne van Bokhoven.
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Jasper, a marketing agents platform, launches its end-to-end GEO Agent, an autonomous agent designed to help marketing teams continuously analyze, influence and improve how their brand appears across AI-powered search and discovery experiences. GEO Agent continuously analyzes discoverability signals, identifies visibility gaps, and executes optimization workflows to improve brand representation, citations, sentiment and share of voice across leading AI platforms. It is supported by the platform’s GEO Hub, which provides centralized visibility into key AI discoverability signals, including visibility, citation rates, sentiment, share of voice and competitive positioning. GEO Agent is the first in a new class of role-based that Jasper has built to execute complex marketing work from insight to action. "It analyzes how brands appear across leading AI platforms, identifies discoverability gaps, optimizes existing assets, generates new content, and improves how AI systems interpret and retrieve brand information over time.," said Jasper CEO Timothy Young.
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H/Advisors launches an office in Warsaw, marking its entry into the Polish market. The Polish H/Advisors team will be led by Tomasz Lis, managing director at the Warsaw office of Havas, the owner of H/Advisors. It will focus on sectors critical to national security and economic growth, including energy, defense, retail and food, and real estate. H/Advisors executive chairman Stéphane Fouks said that the firm’s expansion into Poland comes at a time of growing demand for its services among Polish organizations. “Establishing H/Advisors in Poland strengthens our ability to support clients where reputation, policy, business and societal expectations increasingly converge,” he said.
Acceleration Community of Companies, a network of independent media, marketing, and communications agencies including DKC, Stripe Theory and MKG, expands ACC Intelligence... Crosby Marketing Communications CEO Raymond Crosby is named to the Anne Arundel County Chamber of Commerce’s 2026 Business Hall of Fame Class... Superson, a Helsinki-based agency with hubs in Amsterdam, Toronto and Singapore, is expanding its footprint in North America with the opening of a Toronto office.
MMGY and Las Vegas-based R&R partners are joining forces under parent company MMGY Global... HarrisQuest, the brand and reputation intelligence platform from The Harris Poll, launches HarrisQuest MCP (Model Context Protocol), which lets users easily connect an AI assistant to external data and tools... Curious Orange, a Dublin-based firm that offers strategy, creative design, digital performance marketing, and AI-enabled workflows, launches Curious Orange Live, a dedicated live experiential marketing agency.
The Messina Group is rebranding as Fortius Global and opening an office in London. Jim Messina, who launched the firm in 2013 after serving as campaign manager for Obama for America, will serve as CEO of Fortius Global and continue to set the vision, strategy, and execution for Fortius and its companies... The New York Chapter of the National Investor Relations Institute names the new members of its NextGen Committee for the 2026-2027 term... Billion Dollar Boy, a social and influencer marketing agency with offices in New York and London, acquires Santa Monica, CA-headquartered Creator Authority.
Slowey McManus Communications is receiving a majority stake investment from Adi Sarosa, founder and managing partner of AA24 Communications... Seven Letter, a Washington, D.C.-based bipartisan strategic communications and public affairs firm, marks its 20th anniversary... Jack Morton launches a new global brand identity.
Peregrine, which specializes in asset and wealth management, adds a Los Angeles office to its locations in New York and London... The Dilenschneider Group, which was founded by Hill & Knowlton CEO Robert Dilenschneider, marks 35 years in business... Meltwater launches Intelligence is Always in Style, a marketing campaign based on a short-film series starring actress Kim Cattrall.
