Global warming.  Rampant authoritarianism.  Endless pandemic.  It’s impressive that some people find time to worry about measuring TV audiences.  So thumbs up to OpenAP, which just launched a framework to target and measure all types of TV audiences and signed up a slew of media agencies, media companies, and measurement vendors to cooperate.  Called XPm, the platform lets advertisers work with an audience of 290 million identities, which can be linked with other firms’ first-party data in various privacy-safe ways.

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.