Next, a particularly interesting survey from Acxiom about identity solutions.  Just 19% of respondents said their companies have implemented a third-party cookie replacement plan and only 34% have a plan in place.  Even fewer have mature plans for master identities across martech and adtech.  First party data and CDPs are the most important components of their expected solutions.  Lots more here.

Holy Grail or Great White Whale?  Either way, lots of people are chasing fully automated marketing campaigns.  Oracle just joined the quest with Fusion Marketing, which automates some functions and guides marketers through manual steps for others.  The most automated bits include B2B advertising audience generation, reference story selection, company-specific microsites with auto-selected case histories, and AI-powered lead qualification and distribution.

Nearly one-third of major news publishers have blocked generative AI tools from reading their content.   But that’s a drastic measure which could also exclude their results from conventional search engines.  Microsoft has just given publishers the option to block access by Bing Chat without also removing their content from search results.  We’ll see if competitors do the same.