Mower is one of America's largest 100% employee-owned (ESOP) integrated agencies. Founded 1968 in Syracuse NY by Eric Mower. Became ESOP in 2022. CEO Stephanie Crockett since 2023. 140-200 employees across nine US cities. Clients: National Grid, FedEx, Carhartt, Siemens.
Marketing Maven, founded in 2009 by Lindsey Carnett, is a bicoastal integrated marketing and public relations firm ranked #10 in Los Angeles by O'Dwyer's in 2025.
Geico is the canonical case in integrated SEO and PPC marketing at consumer-insurance scale. $40B+ annual revenue, $2.5B+ annual ad spend, 25+ years of Gecko mascot brand investment. Top paid placement in auto insurance queries, sustained brand-driven organic search, multi-channel performance marketing integration.
Finn Partners is one of the largest independent PR firms in the U.S., 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 on O'Dwyer's 2026 Top Independent list.
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.
Susan Matthews was named one of Indianapolis Business Journal's 2014 Women of Influence.
Buyers stopped starting on Google. The first search now happens on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, and the AI engines. How discovery behavior fragmented, what social search looks like on each platform, and what the integrated brand-presence stack requires in 2026.