Retail media is another favorite topic around here (we’re VERY popular at parties).  Instacart just launched Instacart Platform, which includes Carrot Ads, which run on retail websites that use Instacart technology; Carrot Warehouses fulfillment services, and Carrot Insights for analytics.  Kudos to Instacart for addressing the long-ignored shortage of vegetable-themed martech.

Data movement platform RudderStack has announced an integration to easily move data in and out of cross-channel marketing platform Iterable.  Rudderstack calls itself a “warehouse-first, CDP built for developers”, although it doesn’t meet the CDP Institute definition because it doesn’t maintain customer profiles.  It does provide one of the tools that companies can combine to mimic CDP functionality.

The U.S. Department of Justice has formally requested the sale of the Chrome browser among other measures following last August’s guilty verdict in its search advertising antitrust suit (not to be confused with last week’s guilty verdict in the adtech antitrust lawsuit). Google is asking for a much narrower focus on deals to be the default search engine for Apple, Mozilla and others. There will be a three-week hearing on the government’s proposals.