Fast Hippo Media acquires Plano Website Design to expand AI search services

Fast Hippo Media said on June 29, 2026 that it had acquired Plano Website Design, a move that folds a Plano-based shop into a larger North Texas platform built around SEO, web design, paid media, and AI search services. Plano Website Design will keep operating under its own brand, but its full team is joining Fast Hippo Media, and the transaction terms were not disclosed.

The deal gives Fast Hippo a stronger Dallas-Fort Worth footprint and a cleaner story for the market: local execution on one side, broader channel depth on the other. Fast Hippo said Plano Website Design brings more than 12 years of experience and a 4.9-star Clutch rating, while the combined offering stretches beyond core SEO into programmatic advertising, Connected TV advertising, email marketing, video content production, Google Business Profile optimization, and Content Everywhere services.

Oscar Fullmer, Fast Hippo Media’s co-founder, said the deal is a win for clients and said search is changing faster than at any point in his 25 years in the industry. That point sits at the center of this acquisition. Fast Hippo said buyers are now asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude before they ever touch Google, which is why the agency is leaning harder into Answer Engine Optimization and a broader AI search stack rather than selling SEO as a standalone service.

Fast Hippo has been building toward this for months. It launched its Content Everywhere framework in October 2025, then said in January 2026 that it closed 2025 with more than 300% year-over-year business growth. The agency says it has offices in Dallas, Frisco, and Colorado Springs, more than 60 years of combined experience, and more than 200 client ratings averaging 4.9 out of 5. That gives the Plano acquisition more weight than a simple logo change: it ties local brand equity to a larger operating system built to push visibility across search, social, and AI-driven discovery.

Plano matters in that map. Plano is one of the principal suburbs in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and a major hub of the Dallas economy, so keeping the Plano Website Design brand while absorbing its team lets Fast Hippo strengthen geography without flattening the local identity that likely helped the shop win work in the first place.