Podcast ads are growing: revenue will total nearly $700 million this year and $1 billion by 2021, says the IAB. Adobe found that 60% of listeners have looked up a product after hearing it mentioned in a podcast ad and 25% have made a purchase. You won’t be surprised that Millennials are the most frequent listeners.

Groupon is another business that has seen hotter days. But they’re still around and in fact just bought Presence AI, which handles message and chat-based bookings such as spa visits and dining reservations. This will make it easier to sell such things through Groupon. You can think of it as a mom-and-pop PopBase, although I don’t know why you’d bother.

Like the determined optimist who tells his boss the factory is on fire by reporting they’ll soon be able to update their equipment, let’s find some silver linings in a batch of gloomy surveys today, Dear Reader.  We’ll start with this Fivetran report, which finds that 85% of data leaders say their company has lost money by basing decisions on bad data, and 66% believe their C-suite can’t tell when that happens.  The bright side is there’s lots of room for improvement.