Salesforce announced a slew of features boosting its personalization capabilities, most notably AI-driven engagement scoring drawing on data in the Salesforce CDP.  Other additions include tighter integration of Interaction Studio with Experience Cloud, Datorama, and CRM, and of Dataorama with Salesforce CDP.  In case you’re wondering, a “slew” is more than a bunch but less than a bucket.

Back in nine-digit territory, cloud data integration platform Matillion has raised a $150 million Series E, bringing total funding to $310 million.  They don’t specifically target customer data but their list of connectors does include bunch of advertising, CRM, and marketing automation systems.  Maybe two bunches.

YouTube is not just a video platform, of course, it’s also a powerful search engine and it has begun testing a Google AI Overviews carousel that will appear in results for selected queries. Given the threat AI Overviews is perceived to pose to click-thru traffic in Google Search results, there’s a question about whether the YouTube initiative could depress click-thrus to brand and creator videos. Right now, the feature is only visible to a sub-set of U.S. premium users.