The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants to broaden its oversight of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to give itself the power to prohibit ISPs from blocking or throttling internet traffic and to stop their collecting data for advertising.
That companies who expand marketing budgets during a business downturn ultimately do better than their competitors is one of those bits of information that are often cited but rarely traced back to an actual study. So it’s nice to see it confirmed by this analysis of Federal Deposit Insurance data by The Financial Brand. The study properly offers many caveats about its findings, but it does show marketing spend correlates with higher revenue growth.
Serve Robotics, a company delivering food to Uber Eats customers has been found to be providing far more than just take out meals. In fact, the robots roaming the streets of Los Angeles, which are always filming where they are and where they are going, have just been found to have helped the city’s police department by providing film that was used in a criminal case.
Scope3 is expanding into brand safety and fraud detection turf of Integral Ad Science and DoubleVerify. Amazon DSP is the first company to integrate Scope3’s Agentic Media Platform, which eliminates made-for-advertising, fraud, non-brand-safe, and climate-risk inventory by default. A separate Brand Standards product, built on top of the Agentic Media Platform, lets companies connect with expert AI agents to apply additional content standards.