Multi-channel personalization and recommendation vendor Dynamic Yield has raised $22 million in new funding, bringing its total to more than $36 million.  The system integrates with Web sites, mobile apps, email, and advertising channels.   Yes, it supports it all by building a unified customer view.

We recently reported about Lotame measuring TV audiences with individual data from Smart TVs, even though advertisers still had to buy ads that reach everyone who views a show.  Here’s something similar from Adobe, which is using data from other devices to understand who’s watching.  Adobe’s “TV Media Management Platform” is also provides advanced forecasting to help media planning.  It’s always nice to see martech and adtech working together, if only so I can call it “madtech”.

Disney has agreed to license more than 200 characters, costumes, and environments (but not voices or talent likenesses) to OpenAI for Sora, its gen AI video platform. This is highly unusual for Disney, which generally sues AI models for copyright infringement; in fact, it sued Google for that a day before announcing the OpenAI deal. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI, nicely illustrating how very eager they are to join the AI party.