Customer data-related announcements from Salesforce Marketing Cloud yesterday included integration with Google Analytics 360 for cross-channel customer tracking, bidirectional integration of first party data between the Salesforce DMP and its email engine, and integration with ThunderheadONE for real time interactions and next best action recommendations.

Speaking of inexplicable, here’s a study from Infographic World that finds infographics are effective. What’s inexplicable isn’t the conclusion but that the report isn’t accompanied by an infographic. Perhaps someone was being deliberately ironic. If so, they definitely get style points.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.