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Stagwell Inc. (NASDAQ: STGW) is a marketing and communications holding company that describes itself as a challenger network built to transform marketing. News about Stagwell often highlights developments across its agencies, technology platforms, and leadership, reflecting its role in the advertising agencies industry and the broader professional, scientific, and technical services sector.
Company news includes announcements about new business units and offerings, such as the creation of the SPORT BEACH business unit to focus on sports marketing experiences that connect athletes, brands, and creatives. Updates also cover leadership appointments across the network, including roles like Global Chair, Media and Commerce, Global Chair, Communications and Advocacy, and senior positions at Allison Worldwide and other agencies.
Stagwell’s news flow also emphasizes technology and AI. The company has announced The Machine, described as an agentic operating system for marketing built by Code and Theory, and NewVoices.ai, an AI workforce platform for enterprise sales, support, retention, payments, and feedback. These stories illustrate how Stagwell positions technology and AI as central to its marketing strategy.
In addition, Stagwell-related news features recognition and milestones at agencies within its network, such as awards and growth updates for Code and Theory and Kettle, and developments at Assembly as a global omnichannel media agency. Stagwell also releases results from the Harvard CAPS / Harris Poll through its news channels, reflecting its involvement in public opinion and market research.
Investors and observers who follow STGW news can use this page to see company press releases, agency updates, technology launches, polling results, and leadership changes that may provide context on how Stagwell is evolving its marketing, communications, and AI-focused capabilities.
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) released a survey of 100 U.S. CEOs conducted by its National Research Group, fielded Oct 21–Nov 10, 2025, and unveiled at The Wall Street Journal 2025 CEO Council Summit on Dec 9, 2025.
Key findings: 85% view AI as in a healthy growth phase, 78% are bullish on AI's impact on workplace efficiency and innovation, 74% express confidence in U.S. economic resilience into 2026 despite 62% saying the U.S. is on the wrong track. Top policy priorities: managing inflation (61%), reducing debt (47%), and job creation (33%).
Code and Theory (NASDAQ: STGW) was named Adweek's inaugural Innovation Agency of the Year on December 9, 2025, recognized for integrating creativity, engineering and AI into customer experience platforms. Key capabilities cited include The Machine for Stagwell (AI orchestration), Experience Transformation Practice (EXT) and an AI-native Engine studio.
Reported performance metrics: 17% revenue growth YoY, 33% team growth, 35 new client wins, and 88% talent retention. Client results include Qualcomm developer engagement +540% and Amazon Ads unaided awareness +33%.
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) released the December Harvard CAPS / Harris poll (Dec 2-4, 2025; n=2,204). Key findings: Trump approval at 47% (+3 pts vs Nov); 62% say Republicans won the shutdown; 68% approve the shutdown compromise. Economic concerns dominate: 59% cite inflation/cost of living as top issue and 71% overestimate inflation. Voter trust favors GOP on the economy (55%) despite 57% saying Trump is losing the battle on inflation. Broad policy support includes 86% for lowering drug prices, 72% for H-1B visas, and 70–78% support for Trump’s Israel-Gaza peace plan.
Allison Worldwide (STGW) announced on December 8, 2025 the appointment of Jeremy Lucas as CEO, Europe, based in London.
Lucas will report to Allison Global CEO Jonathan Heit and aims to integrate and grow the agency across Europe, expanding services in reputation, stakeholder engagement, crisis, influencer, analytics and marketing while providing C-suite support to clients.
Lucas brings more than 20 years of experience, previously serving as UK CEO at Hotwire and holding senior roles at Edelman, Ogilvy and Teneo; he was a journalist/producer for Sky News and the BBC and has appeared in PRWeek's PowerBook for seven years.
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) announced that Zac Moffatt will become its first Global Chair, Communications and Advocacy, unifying leadership of its communications and advocacy agencies including Allison, HarrisX, HUNTER, Consulum, SKDK, Sloane, and Targeted Victory.
The new vertical represents expected net revenues approaching $400m in 2025 and more than 1,500 employees worldwide. Targeted Victory, which joined Stagwell in 2017, has grown to over 230 employees and reported more than $100 million in annual revenue. Moffatt will report to CEO Mark Penn; Targeted Victory co-founders Abe Adams and Ryan Meerstein will continue to lead that agency.
Stagwell says the unified vertical will provide earlier access to technology and AI tools, stronger cross-agency talent alignment, and a more coordinated global client experience.
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) appointed Jonathan Gardner as CEO of Harris Quest on December 3, 2025. Gardner, who has more than 30 years in market research and polling, will report to The Marketing Cloud CEO Elspeth Rollert and lead Harris Quest's AI-powered market research and brand management tools.
Gardner previously served nearly a decade as COO of The Harris Poll and held senior operating roles at The Marketing Cloud, Subject Matter, and Penn Schoen Berland. Harris Quest combines The Marketing Cloud's AI tools with The Harris Poll's research capabilities and offers self-service brand management and survey tools for real-time insights.
Gradial and Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) announced a strategic partnership on Nov 25, 2025 to deliver agentic AI capabilities to enterprise marketing teams.
The collaboration pairs Stagwell's global creative, design and AI expertise with Gradial's agentic execution engine to connect workflows, reduce operational bottlenecks, and deliver personalized cross-channel experiences. The partners will launch a joint go-to-market initiative and targeted client pilots to create scalable deployment models for marketing departments.
UNICEPTA (NASDAQ: STGW) announced on November 25, 2025 an integration of its reputation and media intelligence platform with Microsoft 365 Copilot. The integration embeds UNICEPTA's LLM-powered AI Agent into Copilot, Teams, Word, and PowerPoint via Microsoft connectors while keeping deployment control and data access within the client's environment.
Key benefits cited include instant, in-context access to sentiment, reach, and topic insights; reduced tool fragmentation; faster decision-making; and configurable access controls with no information shared with Microsoft.
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) announced on November 24, 2025 a partnership with Harvard University's OpenDP to embed differential privacy into its Palantir-powered AI and data marketing platform.
The collaboration will apply OpenDP's mathematically grounded noise-addition techniques—used by the U.S. Census Bureau and validated in high-stakes legal contexts—to protect individual-level data while enabling aggregate audience analysis, segmentation, and campaign optimization at scale. Stagwell said early MVP adoption is already underway in the United States.
Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW) will open a new Asia Pacific headquarters at Solaris @ one north in Singapore, with operations starting in Q1 2026. The Green Mark Platinum-certified campus consolidates Stagwell's APAC agencies — including ADK, Allison, Assembly, Forsman & Bodenfors, HarrisX, Ink Global, and Locaria — into a single, tech-enabled workspace designed for hybrid work, sustainability, and cross-discipline AI collaboration.
The hub aims to accelerate integrated solution-building, real-time decision-making, and operational agility. The announcement follows Stagwell's 2025 ADK acquisition, expansion of its Future of News initiative to Singapore, launch of Stagwell Media Platform, and a new Palantir partnership to build an AI and data marketing platform.