Nashville, March 19, 2024 — Country Aircheck breaks staff promotion Ave-News: The newly rebranded MARB MKTG (formerly Marbaloo Marketing) has relocated to East Nashville’s bustling Eastwood Village and moved public figure clients under the AVE EAST MKTG Agency umbrella. Additionally, the company's Emily Riggle has been promoted to Dir./Client Relations, Sara Jordan Jacobson to Head/PR, Caitlin Blackford to Dir./Publicity, Morgan Mercker to Mgr./Marketing and Dave Goldhahn to VP.
These promotion and hire announcements are on the heels of the agency’s 2024 Silver Clio Award win for Dolly Parton’s TikTok channel launch campaign.
Emily Riggle, who initially joined Marbaloo’s Interactive department in 2019 was promoted in November 2022 into leadership as the Director of Client Relations and has led projects like the Academy of Country Music, Megadeth, and Carly Pearce while streamlining onboarding for new and returning clients, optimized our agencies’ securities protocols as well as being a resource for solo-service clients having questions out of their service set and to former clients needing out-of-cycle support, extending the value lifecycle of our ecosystem.
Sara Jordan Jacobson was promoted to run the Publicity department by her mentor and predecessor, Anthony Langone, when he transitioned to Head of Music Publicity at Spotify in New York. She began as an intern with the company in 2016 and enters her eighth year with the company as Head of PR. In her first year of leadership, the company won the 2023 PR News Award for “Viral Campaign of the Year” for Dolly Parton’s TikTok Launch and Jacobson individually was awarded Honorable Mention as Digital Communicator of the Year. Caitlin Blackford, who was promoted to Director of Publicity, enters her fourth year with the company and recently led the aesthetically astounding and immensely successful launch of Dolly Parton’s Pinterest page.
Dave Goldhahn runs Remedy Creative and has been the Creative Director for the company for over eight years. Upon Julie Sturdivant’s exit from her post in March of 2022, after a thrilling twelve years of growth and accomplishments, for Creative Artist Agency as Brand Partnerships Executive, Goldhahn was deservingly promoted to Vice President. Other notable promotions include Morgan Mercker who originated in Faithe Dillman’s office to a role as Interactive Coordinator for James Patterson, Dolly Parton, Kenny G and more and recently was promoted to Marketing Manager expanding her roster to include music-adjacent product lines and companies.
Country Insider additionally reported the company's new hires. Emilie Dufresne joined Remedy Creative, previously at ST8MNT Brand Agency, as a Creative Coordinator contributing to product focused projects, bus wraps, admats, food & beverage content, and more. Dillman also adds to her arsenal of pop/mainstream experienced staff with the hire of Los Angeles based, Anto Victorica, previously Senior Manager of Brand Partnerships at Universal Music Group’s UMGB, now Senior Manager of Marketing and Brand Partnerships at AVE EAST MKTG. His portfolio of work includes the Billie Eilish x Nike pop up at Lollapalooza, Lil Yachty’s Walmart Pizza release and TikTok’s “Free To Be" Pride campaign.
About MARB MKTG: MARB MKTG (previously Marbaloo Marketing), is a parent company, encompassing different agencies offering varying services and specialities. The agency's expansive and eclectic roster of artists & public figures will now be rostered under the AVE EAST MKTG Agency. The AVE WEST PR Agency, founded in Los Angeles, acquired in 2016, will continue servicing its brand and product roster. BAND-WIDTH MKTG has returned to servicing the festivals, concerts and tours it originally launched to market while continuing to promote the virtual livestreams and VIP experiences it pivoted to during the pandemic. REMEDY CREATIVE celebrates its eighth year providing beautiful branding, quality content as well as fast asset solutions. Moving forward, Marbaloo will be reserved for Dillman’s individual consulting services and purpose driven pro-bono work. To streamline operational aspects of the businesses, the agencies have unified business development, client success, finance, operations and the executive suite to MARB MKTG.
Although employee email addresses changed with the rebranding, any email sent to a previous domain will forward automatically to the employee’s new inboxes for client and contact convenience. Individual agency websites are located at www.MARBMKTG.com. For general inquiries you can email info@marbmktg.com.
For new or returning business inquiries, contact Emily Riggle at emily@marbmktg.com
For Remedy Creative inquiries, contact Dave Goldhahn at dave@remedy-creative.com
For MARB MKTG media relations, contact Sara Jordan Jacobson at sarajordan@marbmktg.com
For AVE EAST MKTG media relations, contact Caitlin Blackford at caitlin@aveeastmktg.com
For AVE WEST PR media relations, contact Alyssa Hultquist at alyssa@avewestpr.com
For BANDWIDTH questions, contact Erin Coad Horton at erin@band-widthmktg.com
For employment interest and inquiries please visit our LinkedIn page.