Around three-quarters of advertisers, adtech businesses and publishers have embraced a cookieless future according to an international survey of 200 in the industry by ID5. Around the same number are refusing to rethink as a result of Google’s pivot away from (itself) deprecating cookies. Most attributed Google’s pivot to Privacy Sandbox criticisms (63%) while almost as many cited the investigation by the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority.
Marketing executives have responsibilities beyond marketing, according to a survey of 100 by McKinsey. Advertising (93%), consumer insights (78%) and PR/comms (64%) are among their additional roles. Only 25% feel their organizations can handle this expansion.
A potential Google competitor, ChatGPT Search was long rumored, then announced and is finally here and available for use. It generates responses to natural language prompts but also includes links. Now all search marketers have to do is figure out how to rank in the results.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.