Let’s peer today at life’s second-most interesting topic: consumer behavior. We’ll start with this Unruly report (that’s the company name; the report is well-behaved) on connected TV viewers. Headline finding is 73% of U.S. consumers would rather watch ads on free TV than pay for ad-free TV content. Times being what they are, consumers are even more likely to seek free options: 35% have tried a new ad-supported streaming service since the pandemic began and 79% plan to continue.

Whatever happens to Audience Network, Facebook is working hard to build its ecommerce business. Its latest step is Facebook Shop, a new section in its main app that lets users buy from multiple merchants. This is a big step up from the Facebook Shops that exist on merchants’ own pages. Raise your hand if you think becoming more dependent on Facebook is a good idea.

GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads.  The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles.  GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.