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PRODUCTION MATTERS - Founded in 1999, LionStar Films is an award-winning video production company based in Atlanta, GA. We are a diverse group of video & advertising professionals dedicated to producing dynamic stories for brands and agencies alike. Whether its commercial needs for broadcast or video content for social & digital needs, our team focuses on doing one thing - making compelling video that is worth watching. For Advertising Agencies, we are the perfect production company to bolt-on and help bring your broadcast (or digital) concepts to life. Our roster of carefully-curated Directors, Cinematographers and Photographers, along with our full-time Production and Post-Production staff brings scale to your existing Creative & Production departments. For Brands, we help bring a turn-key solution to your Marketing and/or Communication needs. For us, storytelling transcends all forms of video. Our brand-direct expertise spans from documentary-style videos, to corporate interviews, to animated explainers — videos that inform & engage.

CONNECT WITH FANS - Founded in 1986 as an athlete management and marketing firm, CSE (formerly Career Sports & Entertainment) has evolved into one of the longest-running and most-diversified independent marketing agencies in the country. CSE helps businesses and brands connect with consumers and fans through multi-dimensional strategy building and execution across a wide range of diversified areas.

FUELED BY A NEW BELIEF FOR BRANDS - In the early part of the last decade, it was becoming increasingly clear in our industry that large, established brands with robust marketing departments had an addiction problem. They were addicted to large, established agencies whose reputations were best in class, but whose languages and ways of connecting with consumers had become antiquated. Dagger’s founding group met in 2012 at one such agency (Atlanta’s largest), while working on large brands that seemed to suffer from this particular affliction - UPS, Wells Fargo and Chick-fil-A to name a few. The more we saw them struggling to apply their agencies’ outdated playbooks to the needs of a consumer who had evolved beyond those game plans, it became clear to us that the market was driving a need for a new kind of agency - one that could help large, historically slow-to-adapt brands move rapidly toward a more content-oriented mindset, and reorganize their priorities to fit a world where social and mobile disruption were now complete. In other words, an agency that could help big brands behave less like big brands, and more like modern media companies. Recognizing this need for a baggage-free shop that at a DNA level was wired to help large, legacy-type clients speak the media company language they wanted to and needed to, a small group splintered away from the comfort and security of their large, highly regarded agency and Dagger was born. Over the past six years, Dagger has built its business leading large, historically slow-moving clients toward this nimble media company mindset. We’re a small agency that’s built to work with big brands. We earn ourselves a place at the table, and then our philosophies spread like wildfire within the organizations with whom we partner, often leading to rapid organic growth. It’s a blueprint that amply sustained Dagger during its first five years, but in 2019 we set our most aggressive new business agenda yet. Specifically we targeted five RFPs, all for household name brands and high-ranking Fortune 500 companies - Coca-Cola, Intercontinental Hotel Group, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Aflac (social media RFP), and later in the year we pitched to be Aflac’s brand AOR. Five pitches, five wins. Resulting in revenue growth that allowed us to increase our staff to over 50 for the first time, and allowing us to more than double our physical footprint. Our expansion included the addition not only of new state-of-the-art office space, but also a pro-grade shooting studio and full scale post-production facility. All these developments led to Dagger being listed in the AdWeek 100 as the fastest growing agency in Atlanta. Also of note for 2019 was the addition of our first Chief Creative Officer, Al Patton, who joined Dagger in January and had a transformative effect on our creative offering. A twenty-year veteran of New York’s top creative agencies, including a decade-long run at R/GA overseeing the Nike and Samsung accounts, Al hit the ground running with the talented team at Dagger and together we haven’t looked back.

ABOUT US - You can either adapt to change, ignore it or lead it. Publicis Worldwide, North America is a full service advertising agency that helps our clients take the lead. About Publicis Worldwide, NA is a regional operation of the largest global network within Publicis Groupe. In North America, Publicis Worldwide has offices in Toronto, Montreal, Dallas, Seattle, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Boise, Calgary, Windsor and New York, their largest office in the region with 700+ employees. NA clients include P&G, Citi, T-Mobile, Cadillac, AFLAC, Chrysler (Canada), Wendy's, L'Oreal, Nestle, Home Depot (Canada), Abbott, UBS, West Jet and Pfizer, among others. Mission We believe that this era demands a combination of strategic, creative and digital ideas that help clients to Lead The Change in their own digital transformation. The one constant in this world is change. You can either adapt to it, ignore it, or lead it. "Lead the Change"​ is both our mission and our call to action. It speaks to our entrepreneurial spirit and our roots as an agency. It defines the way we think about brands, ideas and relationships, and it's alive in our work. Change that helps them to redefine the landscape and forge ahead of the competition. Change that lets them become part of the public consciousness, and create a movement of passionate advocates. About Publicis Worldwide Publicis Worldwide is a global creative agency, with 88 years experience providing change leadership for its clients. With over 12,000 employees in 84 countries, clients include Axa, BNP Paribas, Carrefour, Cartier, Citi, Coca-Cola, Haier, Hilton Honors, HP, l’Oréal, LG, Luxottica, Nestlé, Orange, P&G, Paypal, Pernod Ricard, RATP, Renault, Sanofi, Seb, Siemens, Telefonica, Total, and UBS. Publicis Worldwide is a part of Publicis Groupe.

WE ARE WHAT'S NEXT - MRY is a creative and technology agency dedicated to making brands remarkable. We now live in a people curated world where brands are scrambling to bridge the gap between their bought, owned and rapidly evolving earned media channels. That’s where we come in. MRY works with clients to give consumers something worth talking about—brand content that sparks emotion, that adds value, and inspires action. By doing this, we’re helping clients connect consumer-led brand conversations to meaningful business results.