Looking for automated personalization?  LimeStory, whose “micro storytelling workflow” apparently creates personalized content sequences (their website is ironically unclear), is entering the North American market with a focus on higher education institutions.  Jivox has enhanced its ability to create “thousands of personalized video variations” with a simplified user interface, connectors to household and contextual data, and automated conversion of outputs into different formats.  And Intellimize has raised a $30 million Series B  for dynamic web pages that create optimized B2B conversion funnels for each visitor.

Netcore Cloud is another company that I think of as a CDP, although their primary business has been personalized email, more lately expanded to omnichannel marketing automation.  They’re not well known in the U.S. despite serving 5,000 brands in 22 countries.  They hope to change that, having just announced entry to the U.S. market.

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.