Customer Data Platform vendor Amperity, which launched its product just last month, has closed a $28 million Series B funding. The new round brings total funding to $37 million. Amperity was founded in 2016.

How about finding ideas the old fashioned way: by stealing them? Email deliverability experts Return Path have just enhanced their competitive intelligence tool with a database of millions of emails sorted by subject line, industry, and campaign type. The database also shows performance metrics so marketers can see which ideas are worth, shall we say, learning from.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.