Is it even news when a company raises money to apply machine learning to media buying? I’m not sure, but let’s give QuanticMind the benefit of the doubt and mention their $20 million Series B. QuanticMind helps companies buy paid search and social ads. The new round brings their total funding to $30 million.

But how much do advertisers really care about their life-threatening dependence on the duopolists? Not very, according to this article from Digiday. Their reporter found that “senior marketers, for the most part, shrugged off Google and Facebook’s domination of media” while settling for minor concessions on brand safety and measurement. What can I say?

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.