The Silverline Blog
Industry insights, Salesforce news, and more
Media & Entertainment
Why Salesforce Media Cloud is a Must for Media Planning
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Sometimes it can be hard to see the glimmer of light at the end of the media industry tunnel. From two Hollywood strikes to declining ad revenue to money-losing streaming businesses, media companies face a lot of uncertainty as they try to get their share of advertising dollars. The multiple unknowns in media have led...
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Silverline Announces Salesforce Data Cloud Implementation Packages to Drive Business Success
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Silverline, a leading consulting and professional services firm specializing in Salesforce solutions, is excited to announce a comprehensive suite of Salesforce Data Cloud implementation packages designed to empower companies in leveraging the full potential of their data assets. These packages include expert advisory, implementation strategy, and best practices to ensure seamless integration and maximizing return...
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6 Ways to Ensure Salesforce Data Security
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Government organizations, financial institutions, and healthcare providers are leaking private and sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and IP addresses from their public Salesforce Community websites. According to a recent article from KrebsOnSecurity, this is due to the potential misconfiguration of Salesforce’s customer relationship management (CRM) software, which can leave data...
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7 Steps for Crafting an Effective AI Implementation Strategy
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September 19, 2016 is a significant date in Salesforce history. That’s when Salesforce Einstein was launched and brought the power of artificial intelligence to every Salesforce user. Skip to almost seven years later, and today Einstein runs more than 1 trillion predictions per week. Plus Salesforce has recently added even more AI capabilities with its...
Media & Entertainment
3 Strategies to Personalize Subscription Lifecycle Management
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“Your Netflix account is for you and the people you live with—your household.” That’s the message that Netflix shared in May as it cracked down on password sharing. Millions of viewers groaned in response as their days of scrounging off family and friends came to an end. But despite industry doubts, the crackdown paid off,...
Media & Entertainment
Harnessing the Power of Salesforce Data Cloud for Marketing
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Publishing companies are soon facing the loss of Google Chrome’s third-party cookies support, which will most likely stop by the end of 2024. Without those cookies, it will be harder for publishers to gather user data, sell targeted segments to advertisers, and deliver on personalization. Publishers will have to rely more on their first-party data,...
Media & Entertainment
4 Generative AI Use Cases to Drive Ad Sales
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One of the first instances of AI showing up in the advertising industry was with a Lexus commercial. It was 2018, and Lexus used IBM Watson to create the first commercial entirely scripted by AI. The car company leveraged IBM Watson to analyze 15 years of car and luxury brand campaigns that had won Cannes...
Media & Entertainment
Salesforce and Gaming: A Powerful Team-Up
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U.S. consumer spending on video game products totalled $56.6 billion in 2022 with no signs of slowing down. The uptick can be attributed to AI and virtual reality gaming innovations, as well as media companies like Netflix expanding into the gaming industry. Perhaps one of the most significant impacts on the popularity of gaming is...
Media & Entertainment
Transforming a4’s Ad Sales Budgeting Process
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A4, a division of Altice News & Advertising, provides audience-based, multiscreen advertising solutions to local, regional, and national businesses and advertising clients. a4’s coverage offers over 80 million authenticated U.S. household IP addresses and 15 million households with viewership data collected across 210 Designated Market Areas (DMAs), including the Optimum markets that span nationwide. The...
Media & Entertainment
How Salesforce Streamlines Production Operations
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M&M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES) That detail was part of the concert rider for Van Halen’s 1982 world tour. The request to remove all the brown M&Ms seems ridiculous and is just one more story about the legendary demands made by celebrities. But lead singer David Lee Roth later explained in an interview that...