Almost half of consumers will share data with brands on their own terms, according to a survey of 1,500 U.S. consumers by consumer research platform Attest. No fewer than 84% shared concerns about data privacy, while many were ready to opt out of mailing lists and decline non-essential cookies. Attest sees big opportunities here for zero-party data, information that consumers actively and willingly share.

Marketing Intelligence, a new solution from Salesforce, provides always-on ingestion of marketing data. Drawing on the unified data of Salesforce Data Cloud and the support of Agentforce agentic AI, it will deliver actionable insights and recommendations. It will feature a homepage for marketers; paid media optimization as Agentforce automatically pauses low-performing ads; and automatic data enrichment.