It’s tough to top this Tricentis report that software testing slows down delivery but improves quality. But never underestimate the pros at Forrester Consulting: when Emplify hired them to research social commerce, they discovered its main goal is to generate revenue. Not only that, but social commerce is growing quickly. My hat is off.

I had to arm wrestle our privacy newsletter editor for this Acquia survey, but fortunately I outweigh her and she’s ticklish.  It was worth trouble because there’s lots of interesting info here.  Highlights: 87% of marketers think their organization is fully prepared for the end of third-party cookies; 55% had adopted a digital experience platform and 50% have added a CDP;  82% think their customers have more trust in  their company’s use of personal data than last year; but 40% of global consumers seem to disagree.

News organizations have long sought ways to make platforms like Meta and Google pay for the content they reproduce. Now Google says the value of news content is overrated, especially when it comes to ad revenue. A study conducted by Google in eight European countries found no change to Search ad revenue and less than 1% drop in usage when the content from 13,000 EU publishers was removed.