More than 12,000 jobs eliminated. Omnicom-IPG merged. Edelman cut deep. Stagwell grew. The structural shift from holding company scale to independent agility accelerated in H1 2026.
Everything-PR Research: the cumulative public record of executive compensation across the PR, communications, and marketing services industry — compiled exclusively from regulatory filings, with every figure linked to its primary source.
Cannes Lions 2026 opens June 22. The Croisette is reshuffled, the PR Lions jury is stacked, the integrity rules are tighter — and every network is showing up with the same pitch.
Team Epiphany is a culture-first marketing agency founded 2004 by Coltrane Curtis and Lisa Chu (husband-and-wife, BIPOC-founded). Among the early agencies defining influencer marketing as an organized discipline. Acquired by Stagwell January 2024, joined Constellation network. ~100 employees NYC, LA, Miami.
Allison Worldwide — formerly Allison+Partners — is a global integrated marketing and communications agency founded September 2001, part of Stagwell. Co-founders Scott Allison and Andy Hardie-Brown stepped back in Dec 2024; Ray Day is Executive Chairman, Jonathan Heit is Global CEO.
Private equity has spent the past decade quietly buying the modern PR industry. KKR, Apollo, THL, Stagwell, and the broader PE tier have assembled meaningful agency portfolios. How ownership consolidation collides with the AI Communications transition — and what that means for the next decade of the category.
Everything-PR's running record of B2C and B2B agency acquisitions, holding-company moves, and the independents holding the line. Now including Omnicom+IPG ($13B), FGS→KKR ($1.7B), and the Burson formation. Updated continuously.
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.
