Zeta Global (formerly Zeta Interactive, formerly XL Marketing) has raised $115 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing, bringing its total past $250 million since 2007. The company provides a a SaaS-based marketing cloud supported by strategy, creative, execution, and analytics services. Acquisitions have included Acxiom Impact (email) and ClickSquared (multi-channel campaigns).

Salesfusion is following the theory that small businesses need support services for key marketing automation tasks. It has just launched a package that combines its software with ten hours per month of template building and campaign execution services. Pricing starts at $1,500 per month for up to 5,000 contacts.

Unauthorized training data isn’t an existential threat to generative AI but it’s certainly a headache for users and developers alike.  Most developers are trying to exclude materials that creators have explicitly labeled as unauthorized and citing “fair use” as justification for copying everything else.  Getty Images has taken an opposite approach, building its gen AI tool only on materials that are explicitly licensed.  It’s possible that tracing the provenance of training data will become a standard, similar to how organic food producers trace the origins of their ingredients.