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Marketing · Week of Nov 2, 2026

Agencies reshuffle leadership as marketing hiring recovers

Agency leadership hires, an agency acquisition and a hiring report showing senior marketing roles growing faster than entry-level ones.

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Holding companies spent the week filling senior seats. Stagwell named Kate Richling, formerly Global Chief Marketing Officer at Monks, Chief Brand and Communications Officer of Stagwell Media, and Omnicom appointed Tom Schwenger CEO of Omnicom Health Marketing. In deals, Truelink Capital portfolio company GES acquired association marketing agency CSG Creative, its second add-on under Truelink's ownership.

On the labor side, Taligence LLC and Aspen Technology Labs reported that U.S. in-house marketing vacancies rose 9.0% year-over-year in Q3 2026, with director-level roles up 15.5% while entry-level roles remained below a year earlier. Elsewhere, Supermetrics described a Claude integration it says more than 6,000 customers have used, Haley Marketing held 2027 prices flat for staffing clients, and the Justice Department announced a $1.25 million False Claims Act settlement involving kickbacks to laboratory marketers.

  1. Stagwell

    Stagwell Media Names Kate Richling as Chief Brand and Communications Officer

    Stagwell named Kate Richling, previously Global Chief Marketing Officer at Monks, Chief Brand and Communications Officer of Stagwell Media, reporting to CEO Liz Rutgersson. She will oversee global brand strategy, executive profiling, PR and internal communications for the agency, which Stagwell says has more than 2,300 experts across 50+ markets.

  2. Justice News

    California Laboratory and Its Owner Pay $1.25M to Settle Allegations of Kickbacks to Marketers

    Lab Genomics LLC and owner Leena Dalal agreed to pay $1.25 million to resolve allegations that they paid value and volume-based commissions to three independent contractor marketers for lab test referrals from January 2020 through September 2022. The Justice Department says the claims are allegations only, with no determination of liability, and whistleblowers Sunil Wadhwa and Ken Newton will receive $225,000.

  3. Truelink Capital

    Truelink Capital Expands GES Platform with Acquisition of CSG Creative, a Leading Association Marketing and Creative Agency

    Truelink Capital says portfolio company GES has acquired Alexandria, Virginia-based CSG Creative from National Trade Productions, Inc., with financial terms not disclosed. CSG will keep its brand and leadership under President Paige Cardwell, and the deal follows GES's 2025 acquisition of 2Heads.

  4. Taligence LLC

    U.S. Marketing Hiring Recovers in Q3 2026 as Entry-Level Jobs Show Signs of Rebound

    Taligence LLC and Aspen Technology Labs report 36,832 live U.S. in-house marketing vacancies at September 28, up 9.0% year-over-year, with director-level and above roles up 15.5% and C-suite roles down 14.3%. Entry-level vacancies rose 10.2% quarter-over-quarter but were 2.5% below a year earlier, and the median advertised salary was $97,500, up 14.0%.

  5. Omnicom Group Inc.

    Omnicom Appoints Tom Schwenger as CEO of Omnicom Health Marketing

    Omnicom announced on Nov. 2, 2026 the appointment of Tom Schwenger as CEO of Omnicom Health Marketing. The company says he will focus on growth and AI for clients as the healthcare market changes.

  6. ITA Airways; Houston Rockets

    Houston Rockets and ITA Airways Launch International Marketing Partnership

    The Houston Rockets and ITA Airways announced an international partnership making the Italian airline, a member of Lufthansa Group, an Official Partner of the NBA franchise. The deal extends the team's sponsorship roster to an overseas carrier.

  7. Supermetrics

    Supermetrics Advances Marketing AI from Analysis to Approved Campaign Action Through Claude

    Supermetrics says more than 6,000 customers have used its Claude integration, and its Context Layer brings business-specific rules and cross-platform data into AI workflows. The company describes the move as taking marketing AI from analysis to approved campaign action.

  8. Haley Marketing

    Haley Marketing Holds 2027 Prices Steady for Second Consecutive Year

    Haley Marketing, marking its 30th year, says it will hold its prices steady in 2027, the second consecutive year it has done so. The company cites a challenging market for the staffing firms it serves.

This roundup is written with AI assistance from the press releases listed above, using only what they state. The releases are the companies' own announcements, not Noted Content reporting.