The decade-long arc of Omnicom Public Relations Group — from the 2016 Van Bergen integration to the 2025 IPG acquisition and 2026 portfolio restructuring.
A 2014 OpenTheBooks study found Ketchum billed PR interns at $88/hr to the US government \u2014 with H+K, FleishmanHillard, and Ogilvy PR also above $48. A decade on, federal PR contracting still operates by the same rules.
Ogilvy, FleishmanHillard, Porter Novelli, and Hill & Knowlton collectively earned over $150 million from federal PR contracts. Here's the breakdown of who got what — and why it matters.
New York is the capital of American PR. The major firms, sectors, and operators defining corporate, financial, fashion, media, and AI communications in NYC.
The top-ranked public relations agencies in 2026 \u2014 the holding-company networks (Omnicom, WPP, Publicis, IPG, Stagwell), the largest independents (Real Chemistry, Edelman, FGS Global), the M&A specialists (Joele Frank, Brunswick, Kekst CNC), and the AI Communications challengers. The EPR reference.
The 102-year-old PR brand is being folded into Golin under Matt Neale. Omnicom's post-IPG cleanup is rewriting the industry map.