PMG Acquires Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media

3 MINUTE READ | October 3, 2023

George Popstefanov, CEO & Founder

George is the CEO and Founder of PMG. He regularly shares his insights on the industry with major outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, AdAge, Adweek, Inc. Magazine, Digiday, Campaign and Direct Marketing News. He’s also spoken at major conferences such as the Google Executive Travel Summit, Luxury Interactive, MarkLogic World, SMX, SES, and Search Insider Summit.

George is a graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM program and earned his bachelor’s degree from TCU.

PMG acquires Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media, expanding services to drive transformational impact.

PMG is excited to announce the acquisition of Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media, one of the largest independent agency buyers of video, OTT, and CTV, and leaders across business and marketing transformation for over 40 years. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, Camelot, whose marquee customers include Intuit, Charter Communications, Experian, Michaels, and Whole Foods, will join PMG, an independent, global full-funnel marketing and technology company headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Camelot is a perfect complement to PMG’s hyper-focus on the customer. As the landscape evolves rapidly, customers require agency partners that deliver a data-informed, tech-enabled, integrated solution obsessed with outcomes, not outputs. The acquisition of Camelot brings advanced expertise in CTV, OTT, traditional media, and measurement to further PMG’s full-funnel, fully integrated model. “Camelot has built an unrivaled video practice leading the industry,” says PMG’s CEO and Founder George Popstefanov. “Their commitment to innovation and furthering the video industry is well aligned with PMG’s technological advancements, automation, and innovation.”

The acquisition of Camelot is further evidence of PMG’s philosophy of always changing for the better.

With the addition of nearly 160 Camelotians, PMG continues to invest in transformation that drives material impact for our customers across media, strategy, analytics, creative, all enabled by technology. “Our customers push us daily to help them solve their biggest business challenges. Our commitment to heightened accountability and driving business impact has allowed PMG to work side-by-side with the C-Suite of top brands to transform for the future,” said Popstefanov.

The synergies between PMG and Camelot continue when it comes to employees. PMG has been named to Ad Age Best Places to Work for 8 years in a row and touts a 90% employee retention rate over the last 5 years. “PMG’s commitment to people and culture was one of the first things that caught our eye. Doing the right thing is never easy, but it’s clear that PMG has prioritized its values even when it was difficult. Camelot has always believed that a happy workplace environment leads to consistently satisfied clients, and we are excited about the bright future ahead and what it means for our people and our customers.” says Sam Bloom, CEO of Camelot. Camelot has also earned top recognition for its workplace culture and commitments, including Ad Age Best Places to Work, Inc. Best Workplaces, and Top 100 Places to Work by The Dallas Morning News.

The company integration begins immediately, and clients' needs will drive the timing of specific synergies across teams and capabilities. George Popstefanov will be the CEO of the combined company, driving the vision and ambition of nearly 700 PMGers worldwide.

About PMG:

PMG is a global independent digital company that seeks to inspire people and brands that anything is possible. Driven by shared success, PMG uses business strategy and transformation, creative, media, and insights, along with our proprietary marketing intelligence platform Alli, to deliver Digital Made for Humans™. With offices in New York, London, Dallas/Fort Worth, Austin, Atlanta, and Cleveland, our team is made up of over 500 employees globally, and our work for brands like Apple, Nike, Best Western Hotels & Resorts, Gap Inc., Kohler, Momentive, Sephora, and Shake Shack has received top industry recognitions including Cannes Lions and Adweek Media Plan of the Year.

Named to Ad Age’s 2023 A-List, MediaPost’s 2023 Independent Agency of the Year, and Adweek’s 2021 Breakthrough Media Agency of the Year, PMG has grown through commitments to continuous improvement, business integrity, and cultivating dynamic relationships. We are proud to be named among Fast Company’s Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fortune’s 2023 #1 Best Places to Work, and Best Workplaces for Women, and to be the only company named to Ad Age’s Best Places to Work eight years in a row. For more information about PMG, visit www.pmg.com

About Camelot:

Trailblazing through 40 years in the media and marketing industry, Camelot Strategic Marketing & Media, is a Dallas-based independent agency with over 150 employees in cities across the U.S. – including New York, Los Angeles, and Baltimore. They partner with intellectually curious, want-to-get smarter leaders from the world's biggest brands – from TurboTax to Whole Foods to Michaels – to provide media-agnostic, transparent, insight-driven media and marketing strategy and execution that drives stellar results. For more information on Camelot, visit camelotsmm.com.