It’s a light news day, Dear Reader, so I’ll stoop to some mild click-baiting with a minor item that puts Adobe in the headline. That being: Adobe has added AMP support to its Campaign email engine. AMP is an open standard that lets emails contain interactive elements such as forms and dynamically updated content. That’s legitimately interesting, although Adobe isn’t the only vendor to support it.

Customer experience vendors highlight their data unification features because disjointed data is a major pain point for their buyers. This Forrester study commissioned by Deloitte Digital makes exactly that point, finding that companies have an average of 28 customer data sources and are struggling to bring them together. Leaders are significantly more likely than laggards to bring customer data management in-house.

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.