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The Agency That Sent Media Away - Then Asked It to Come Home
Doner spent years pulling advertising apart into specialist shops. Its most revealing move was putting the pieces back together - and betting that the middle of America is a point of view, not a flyover zone.
The PR Firm That Outgrew PR
Allison started as an underfunded PR shop one week before 9/11. Twenty-five years later, its first casualty was the label that built it.
The National Campaign That Starts on Your Block
SixAM Strategies thinks national influence is won one neighborhood at a time. Its wager is simple: centralize the strategy, localize the messenger, and be ready to move in 48 hours.
The Ad Agency That Refused to Sell Hours - and Started Building the Products
Anomaly made a strange bet: an agency should solve the business problem even when the answer is not an ad. Two decades, seven offices and a few instructive flops later, that bet looks less eccentric than the industry it challenged.
Crispin Made a $50,000 Chicken Famous. Now It Has to Make Integration Interesting
The agency that taught the early web to obey a man in a chicken suit is rebuilding for a messier brief: make culture, media and measurement work in the same room.
Jonathan Gardner
Jonathan Gardner is the founding CEO of Harris Quest, the AI-powered research and brand-management platform built by The Harris Poll and Stagwell's The Marketing Cloud. Appointed in December 2025, he brings more than 30 years in market research and polling, including nearly a decade as Chief Operating Officer of The Harris Poll and senior operating roles at Penn Schoen Berland, Subject Matter, and The Marketing Cloud. He began his career writing in the Clinton White House speechwriting office, and now translates decades of client-side research craft into software.
The Harris Poll
The Harris Poll is one of the longest-running public opinion and market research firms in the United States, tracking the sentiment, behaviors, and motivations of American adults since 1963. Now part of Stagwell (NASDAQ: STGW), it pairs decades of polling heritage with AI-powered research tools such as the Harris Quest suite, advising leaders, brands, and institutions on how to anticipate change and act with confidence.