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Palantir Finds a Second Career on Madison Avenue
Advertising

Palantir Finds a Second Career on Madison Avenue

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.

A Company Changes Its Name, and Perhaps Its Mission
Advertising

A Company Changes Its Name, and Perhaps Its Mission

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.

24 Seven Decides Three Is Company
Advertising

24 Seven Decides Three Is Company

The staffing industry, which has spent decades placing people in jobs, has now decided it would also like to do the jobs itself.

Patagonia Finds 11.2 Million Reasons to Call the Campaign What It Is
Agencies

Patagonia Finds 11.2 Million Reasons to Call the Campaign What It Is

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