Watching the industry get ready for the post-cookie, privacy-enhanced future has the macabre fascination of a slow-motion train wreck.  This Lotame report finds fewer than 20% feel a high level of urgency to put in place post-cookie solutions and a minority of 42% say they are actively testing solutions.  This despite the fact that most marketers and publishers expect a loss of revenue and jobs when cookies go away.  La la la.

It’s B2B all the way today, Dear Reader. Dun & Bradstreet just bought B2B data compiler NetWise and tougher-to-describe Eyeota, which offers audience data collection, identification, and activation. Like the Zeta Global partnership announced in June, the deals give D&B a larger presence in the consumer data universe.

“Ask Meta AI anything” is what you now see instead of the traditional search bar across Meta apps such as Facebook and Instagram. Meta AI will still perform the basic search function but will also answer questions and chat with you. It should hardly be a surprise when a tech company launches a genAI solution these days but this is a bold challenge to Google and Open.ai (it’s also available as a standalone tool at Meta.ai).