In more legal excitement, a federal judge has placed a temporary injunction, pending an appellate hearing, on the implementation of California’s Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act. A preliminary injunction issued on December 31 had blocked only some parts of the Act. The injunction will dissolve on February 1 unless the Appeals court intervenes.

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.