RAD Intel, the leader in AI-driven marketing decision intelligence, announced it has acquired a majority stake in AVCommunications Inc. (AVC), Canada’s leading multicultural marketing agency and one of the country’s fastest-growing independent firms. The transaction establishes a strategic partnership to integrate RAD’s proprietary intelligence platform with AVC’s two decades of multicultural expertise across North America, Asia, and Europe.

This partnership preserves that core while giving it an AI-powered operating system. The cultural insights we have always delivered can now be acted on in real time, not weeks.

This new alliance represents the latest step in RAD Intel’s strategy to build an AI-powered portfolio of category-leading businesses connected through shared intelligence, technology, and growth infrastructure. As a new portfolio company, AVC will combine its deep expertise in multicultural audiences with RAD Intel’s proprietary audience and creator intelligence platform, creating new opportunities for brands to better understand and engage the communities shaping culture, commerce, and consumer behavior.

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Multicultural audiences are among the fastest-growing and most influential consumer segments in North America, driving purchasing decisions, cultural trends, and creator ecosystems across industries. At the same time, brands are increasingly looking for better ways to understand how communities engage with content, creators, and one another before investing marketing dollars.

“For more than two decades, we have helped hundreds of brands grow by understanding the nuances that define culture,” said Joycelyn David, CEO of AVC. “Our clients depend on that depth of understanding. This partnership preserves that core while giving it an AI-powered operating system. The cultural insights we have always delivered can now be acted on in real time, not weeks. That combination has not existed in this market before. It does now.”

The investment reflects RAD Intel’s broader strategy of pairing proprietary intelligence technology with category-leading operating businesses. By combining AI-powered audience intelligence with specialized industry expertise, RAD Intel is building a portfolio designed to help companies make better decisions, identify new growth opportunities, and create stronger outcomes for clients.

RAD Intel’s proprietary intelligence platform brings advanced audience and creator intelligence capabilities to AVC across major social and digital platforms. The platform helps brands better understand audience behavior, creator fit, content opportunity, and competitive context before campaigns launch. By translating complex audience, creator, content, and market signals into practical guidance, RAD Intel gives AVC a stronger intelligence layer for audience strategy, creator discovery, content optimization, and campaign planning.

“AI alone does not understand culture. People do,” said Jeremy Barnett, CEO of RAD Intel. “AVC has spent more than two decades helping brands understand the audiences, communities, and cultural nuances that shape how people think, engage, and decide. By pairing that human expertise with RAD Intel’s intelligence platform, we can help brands understand their audiences more deeply, identify where they can create real impact, and build campaigns that shape, grow, and earn attention within the communities they want to reach.”

Joycelyn David continues as CEO of AVC. AVC’s leadership team, client relationships, and day-to-day service delivery remain unchanged as the company gains access to new audience intelligence, creator discovery, content optimization, and campaign planning capabilities through the RAD Intel platform.