Finn Partners — independent PR firm founded December 2011 by Peter Finn after he spun it off from Ruder Finn. ~1,300 colleagues, 35 offices, three continents, $199M revenue 2025, 27 acquisitions. #6 O'Dwyer's 2026 Top Independent.
LaunchSquad is a 25-year independent storytelling, PR, and content marketing agency founded 1999 by Jesse Odell. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in NYC, LA, Boston, Chicago, Austin, Denver. Virtual-first. 100+ colleagues, 900+ lifetime clients. Specialty: AI, climate, healthcare, fintech, consumer tech.
Imre is the LGBTQ+-founded, private-equity-backed independent creative agency founded in 1993 by Dave Imre in Baltimore. Now headquartered in New York City with additional offices in Baltimore and Philadelphia. More than 150 employees. Deep specialty in healthcare and life sciences — biotech, pharma, rare disease, oncology.
MP&F Strategic Communications (formerly McNeely Pigott & Fox), founded 1987 in Nashville, is the largest privately held, locally-owned full-service advertising, marketing, and PR firm in Tennessee. Wholly women-owned and women-led. Independent — never acquired.
Makovsky is one of the longest-running independent integrated communications firms in the United States. Founded 1979 in New York City by Ken Makovsky. Family-owned. Specializes in regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, technology, energy. Ken Makovsky also founded IPREX, the global independent PR network.
Public Communications Inc (PCI) — the Chicago-based independent PR firm founded in 1962, specializing in healthcare, education, conservation, and cultural clients, with 145+ industry awards and Worldcom PR Group global reach. Firm profile.
Lovell Communications — the Nashville-founded, healthcare-specialized strategic PR firm founded by Paula Lovell in 1988. Crisis, transaction, marketing, and reputation counsel for publicly-traded and nonprofit healthcare systems.
Stan Steinreich on 22 years of independence, the High Point office, running Tel Aviv and Dubai post-Oct 7, the first 24 hours of a crisis, and what AI Communications changes for corporate comms.
Davis & Gilbert is the New York law firm that advises the U.S. PR industry on the commercial and legal architecture that runs it. Its annual PR Industry Trends Report — running since 2009 — is the canonical confidential benchmark of independent PR firm revenue, hiring, M&A, and service mix.
Jackson Spalding — Atlanta-founded, independent, privately held, ~150 staff across Atlanta, Athens, Dallas, and Los Angeles — quietly holds a client list dense with category leaders: Chick-fil-A, Coca-Cola, Delta, Toyota, Google, L.L.Bean.
