Funny TV ads are on the rise, and how brands are (or aren’t) prepping for the coming data lockdown: Datacenter Weekly

Welcome to Ad Age Datacenter Weekly, our data-obsessed newsletter for marketing and media professionals. Reading this online? Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox here.The $69.3 million JPG“After a flurry of more than 180 bids in the final hour, a JPG file made by Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, was sold on Thursday by Christie’s in an online auction for $69.3 million with fees,” The New York Times’ Scott Reyburn reports. “The price was a n