I don’t mean to be cranky, Dear Reader, but today’s theme is basically “stuff you don’t care about but is the best I could find”. We’ll start with something you might find genuinely interesting: cross-screen attribution vendor TVSquared has launched a global solution to unify reporting on linear and digital TV advertising. Good stuff, but TVSquared has been doing cross-screen attribution for years, so it’s not clear exactly what’s new.

We don’t have another location-related item but here’s one more piece of AI-related funding. This is a $22.1 million Series B for Outlier, which uses automated analysis to produce “proactive, actionable insights” based on changes in data patterns. It all happens “without requiring any configuration or set-up” although you do still have to crawl out of bed in the morning.

Is the jury still out on social commerce? Our friends at eMarketer don’t think so: they expect it to grow 34% this year to exceed $53 billion and 5% of total U.S. ecommerce market. Related: Amazon-owned Twitch is jumping into the game and Motom is consolidating social shopping feeds from multiple platforms.