Media/Marketing/Advertising

With once monthly morning events, a national lecture series group is getting up and running in Richmond with help from several local people in the ad and marketing field.

X-wing fighters zoom above the James, the Millennium Falcon dodges gunfire, and Richmond’s bridges take some heavy hits in a new “Star Wars”-inspired video recently released by a local production studio.

A Realtors organization has unveiled the first in a series of posters reminiscent of old-school travel advertisements, the base of a larger Richmond-themed campaign for the organization.

An ad agency is up and running in a Grace Street building its owner redeveloped into office space and several apartments.

Two West End printing shops are folding into one company with 26 employees and a client list of large local institutions.

With one deal still in the works for Media General to acquire a smaller competitor, the company has said it will hear out another firm on its $4.1 billion buyout bid.

Bonded by the band, an art and music group is cutting its advertising teeth with a video for a local Bloody Mary startup — a cocktail of classic horror films and metal.

A national PR company with local roots has scooped up a 2-year-old Scott’s Addition firm in a push to expand its own branding expertise.

A small video production company has relocated its office from near Carytown to the other side of the river, giving it room to grow and putting it closer to collaborators.

With big-name clients and a reminder of their work in every RVA 25 bumper sticker, Aaron Dotson and Frank Gilliam’s firm Elevation is on the rise. The pair sat down with BizSense to talk about their beginnings and next step up.