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Media & Entertainment How a Media Organization Used Salesforce to Redefine Ad Sales
Imagine you’re making a sandwich. You walk into the kitchen, grab two slices of bread and then pause; “Where are all of the other ingredients?”. Then you remember, the lettuce is in your living room, the meat is down in the basement and the cheese is over at your neighbour’s house (if there’s...

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Media & Entertainment The Path to Digital Transformation in Ad Sales
Digitization has been transforming the media industry since Bill Gates boldly published “Content is King” some twenty years ago, making what turned into a correct prediction that content is where money will be made on the Internet. As digital trends from streaming, social and mobile transformed the...

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Media & Entertainment The Top 3 Salesforce Customizations Essential for Media Companies
There are many customization options available on Salesforce implementation. Making it work for your unique business needs is critical to realizing its magic. In this blog, we’re going to narrow down the top three customizations that are essential to media companies. The ever-changing landscape of...

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Media & Entertainment Predictions 2021: Tools and Technology Will Drive Media Industry Growth
The media industry saw technology innovations flourish as the Covid-19 pandemic drove consumers to be more reliant on technology. From this need, a wave of change spanning new demands, use cases, and expectations washed across the consumer landscape. The developments happened seemingly overnight,...

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Media & Entertainment Marketing Automation Sets the Stage for Data Normalization
One of the most exciting components of my career is when marketing automation projects become the catalyst for data normalization. For many organizations, various applications, databases, and other software solutions operate within their own silos. There may be some 1:1 connections in place, data...

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Media & Entertainment Official Launch: Silverline Media Ad Sales Solution Powered by Salesforce Media Cloud®
Silverline is excited to announce the launch of the new Silverline Media Ad Sales Solution Powered by Salesforce Media Cloud. For the past 10 years, Shift (now Silverline) has been a Salesforce Consulting Partner with an expert focus on media and entertainment. Our team of Scrum-certified media...

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Media & Entertainment 6 Reasons Now is the Right Time to (re)Start Your Digital Transformation
COVID-19 has surely had an impact on your media business and the reality is that the entire business world has evolved – and quickly. Your organization may have lost some opportunities in your sales pipeline due to tightening budgets or you have been forced to furlough some talented...

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Media & Entertainment Shift CRM (Now Silverline) Wins Partner Innovation Award
Toronto. Monday, November 18th, 2019 – Today, Salesforce announced the winner of the Partnership Innovation Award, Shift CRM (now Silverline). In 2016, Shift CRM developed an ad sales project for media and entertainment company WarnerMedia focused on three key areas: reporting accuracy on the sales...

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Media & Entertainment Lightning Strikes with Salesforce’s Winter ’20 release
Since trailhead’s release, Silverline has been a big fan of the modules. We’ve learned through our decade of implementation experience and 5 years of lightning implementations/migrations and combed through to find the best of the best. With Salesforce’s announcement that Lightning is being turned...

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Media & Entertainment Replacing Google DSM Part 2: The ‘out of the box’ myth
Not sure what’s happing with DFP Sales Manager? Here’s what we know so far. If you’ve been frantically searching for a DFP sales solution, chances are you’ve seen someone offering an “out-of-the-box” replacement. Software vendors are spending thousands daily on search ads, hastily...

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Media & Entertainment DSM/XSM Deprecation: Preparing for the end of DoubleClick Sales Manager
Effective immediately, Google is discontinuing the development of DoubleClick Sales Manager. If you rely on the system to manage digital channel sales, you now have 24 months to find a replacement, and we’d suggest planning your transition as soon as possible. Even if you’re more...

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Media & Entertainment What is Einstein’s “Jeopardy” moment?
Besides the flying car, few science fiction staples are as long-overdue as Artificial Intelligence. While it’s been a couple years since we saw IBM’s Watson dominating on Jeopardy, AI seems conspicuously absent from our everyday lives, even if there’s a lot going on behind the scenes. With...

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