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TechTarget, the platform that monetizes B2B software intent data through a large network of websites and other channels, will combine with Informa PLC’s Informa Tech digital businesses. The results are expected to be large growth in scale across global markets and verticals and a tenfold growth in addressable audience for the new TechTarget. The move will introduce Informa Tech clients to TechTarget while combining the two companies’ intent data assets.

A report from cybersecurity intelligence platform Redsift finds over 90% of global domains fail new requirements from Google and Yahoo that come into force on February 1. These include authenticate the domains you send from, make it easy for people to stop receiving your emails and don’t spam. Relatively few U.S. domains fail the tests — 6.52% compared with 50%, for example, in Japan.

Microsoft is introducing new copilot features to Dynamics 365 Customer Insights to help marketers build end-to-end projects and campaigns by using natural language prompts or uploading creative briefs. Copilot will respond with a project board and recommended content. Also, with NRF looming, a copilot template will help retail marketers to build personalized shopping experiences.

B2B demand management platform Integrate has announced the launch of Pipeline360, a new media division. Pipeline360 will have capabilities for managing display advertising and content syndication as well as marketing intelligence. Said Integrate, 38% of marketers we surveyed didn’t know what content syndication is.

The Federal Trade Commission has stepped in to ban X-Mode Social and its successor company Outlogic from sharing or selling sensitive location data. This is in a settlement of FTC allegations that the company sold location data that could be used to track, for example, visits to reproductive health clinics or domestic abuse shelters. This is the FTC’s first settlement with a data broker over the use of sensitive location information.

Eighty percent of organizations surveyed for the Capgemini Research Institute’s CMO Playbook series have either already allocated budget to integrating genAI into marketing, or plan to do so in the next six months. Sixty percent believe the potential benefits of the technology outweigh the risks. The survey also found a consensus that AI would supplement rather than replace human creativity.

In the latest evolution of its One Platform solution, NBCUniversal has launched One Platform Total Audience. The new technology will use AI and predictive analytics to create a single media plan across live and streaming TV targeting a brand’s chosen audience segment. It will combine NBCUniversal’s first-party data with advertisers’ data sets to support targeting at scale.  No cookies here, folks.

Games are emerging as an alternative ad channel in the no-cookie universe. Retail giant Walmart is partnering with 3D experience platform Unity to give Unity developers the opportunity to incorporate Walmart commerce APIs into games, virtual environments and apps. Players will be enabled to make purchases of physical goods without leaving the game.

Panel-based measurement of TV viewing is Nielsen’s bread and butter.  Samba TV is pulling a seat to the table by combining audience data from tens of millions of opted-in televisions with HyphaMetrics’ measurements of content, ad consumption and brand sponsorship across all devices through its opt-in panel. The combined dataset will be available to brands, agencies and publishers to provide insights at household and individual levels.

Fitness center chain Planet Fitness has announced the launch of a multi-channel media network that will allow advertisers to connect with PF members in-club and across a range of digital destinations. In-club media will help advertisers reach members on screens located throughout PF premises, while digital audiences will be made available across channels such as CTV and social media through a partnership with LiveRamp. Planet Fitness has around 18 million members, skewing towards the valuable Gen X and Millennial segments.

Instacart announced at CES that it will begin piloting ads on its AI-powered Caper Carts, physical shopping carts that scan items as the consumer adds them. Initially, the ads will be seen on carts at Good Food Holdings stores such as Bristol Farms, with General Mills, Dreyer’s and Del Monte Foods among the first advertisers. It’s certainly a way to meet a shopper in the moment.

The 2024 Advertising Outlook report from omnichannel ad platform Mediaocean sees a wave of optimism greeting in the new year with advertisers planning to increase spend across a range of channels, notably social media, digital display/video and CTV. While performance-driven paid media remains the most important investment for advertisers, a focus on brand advertising has steadily grown since 2022. The survey respondents included more than 1,000 Mediaocean customers, primarily marketers and agencies.