
Omnicom buys Baltimore e-commerce agency Flywheel Digital for $835 million
Baltimore-based digital commerce company Flywheel Digital has been acquired by Omnicom for a net cash purchase price of approximately $835 million. Flywheel’s services enable top brands to sell…
Omnicom adds two D.C.-area firms
Republican consulting firm FP1 Strategies and its sister public affairs firm PLUS Communications have been acquired by the public relations arm of advertising behemoth…

Monroe Street Partners acquires majority equity stake in Richmond-based Brandito
Monroe Street Partners (“MSP”), a Chicago-based private equity firm, has acquired a majority equity stake in Brandito in partnership with founder and President…

Trinity Hunt Partners acquires digital marketing company REQ
Trinity Hunt Partners (THP), a Dallas-based growth-oriented private equity firm, has acquired Washington, D.C.-based REQ, a digital marketing and advertising…

HBP, a print communications firm, acquired by Marketing.com
HBP, a print communications firm, has been acquired by Marketing.com. HBP is headquartered in Hagerstown, Maryland, with locations in Fairfax and Springfield, Virginia.…

Subject Matter and Kivvit join to create Subject Matter+Kivvit, a new national agency
Subject Matter and Kivvit have joined together to create a new national agency that combines strategic communications, data analytics and insights, government relations, digital…

Harnessing the power of evidence and award-winning creativity to inspire change
Fors Marsh announced today that it has acquired Brunet-García (B|G), a full-service social impact marketing firm based in Florida that focuses…

TorchLight Hire acquires Big Lens digital media agency
Through this acquisition, the Alexandria, VA-based marketing search and staffing firm launches a new digital marketing agency, TorchLight Marketing, expanding its suite of…

Higher Logic acquires eConverse Media and launches Higher Logic Thrive Design
Higher Logic, Arlington, Va, the industry-leading, human focused engagement platform, announced its acquisition of eConverse Media, enabling the launch of its new service…

Cvent, based in Tysons, Va, to be acquired for $4.6 billion
Cvent Holding Corp. (“Cvent”), an industry-leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider, based in Tysons, Va, announced that it has entered into a…

Simpli.fi acquires John Ferber’s Bidtellect; news from Greater Baltimore Committee, GKV and Warschawski
Digital advertising pioneer John Ferber, who with his brother Scott built and sold Baltimore-based Advertising.com to AOL in 2004 for nearly $500…

D.C.-based U.S. News & World Report acquires CollegeAdvisor.com
U.S. News & World Report, the DC-based digital media company known among other things for its college rankings, said it has acquired…

Clare Advisors represents Sharp & Company on its sale to Sensis
M&A Advisory firm Clare Advisors announced that it served as financial advisor to Sharp & Company, a full-service communications consultancy, in…

Sensis acquires transportation industry communications consultancy Sharp & Company
Acquisition adds 24 employees and expands Sensis’ footprint in Washington, D.C. Sensis, based in Glendale, California, with an office in D.C., has…

D.C.-area agency updates: Better Together, Firehouse Strategies and NJI
MXP Ventures, a global agency accelerator and venture fund, has launched its first agency in the US, Better Together, whose goal is helping organizations…

