Back in October, the world was briefly fascinated at the ability of Google NotebookLM to create human-sounding podcasts.  The excitement has died down but here’s news that NotebookLM is being used by Spotify Wrapped to generate a personalized podcast summary of each user’s music consumption over the previous year. The new experience will dive deep into listening history, even looking at the inspirations behind users’ favorite tracks.

Amperity has launched its Customer Data Cloud, a solution designed to support the transformation of raw data in a warehouse or lake into usable business assets. New capabilities include real-time reaction to streaming customer data and no-copy access to customer data in Snowflake and AWS.

Changes in marketing channels and data access have made advertising measurement more important, and challenging, than ever.  Taking advantage of growing interest in the topic, Bain Capital is selling Kantar Group’s audience measurement division, Kantar Media, to global investment firm H.I.G. Capital for “approximately $1 billion”.  Kantar Media accounts for 4,500  of Kantar Group’s 25,000 employees.