The company that built its reputation helping the Defense Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement track things now wants to help marketers track other things — like which customers want back-to-school merchandise and live near a store.
The advertising industry has spent decades perfecting the art of measuring things that may or may not have happened in ways that may or may not be accurate.
When Scope3 was founded in 2022, the company set out to measure carbon emissions across the advertising supply chain, which is the sort of earnest environmental mission that tends to generate approving press releases and panel invitations at Cannes.
There are certain numbers that Madison Avenue cannot resist, and Patagonia appears to have found one: 11.2 million, which is both the dollar amount the outdoor retailer is investing in its new get-out-the-vote effort and, not coincidentally, the estimated number of Americans who consider themselves