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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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How Media Companies Can Start Leveraging a Customer Data Platform
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There used to be a time before the internet and mobile phones when people used an address book. It was a physical book organized alphabetically where you would write down names, addresses, and phone numbers. The address book was the go-to place to store your family and friends’ information, but as time went on, there...
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Ensuring Greater Visibility for The MBS Group’s Stage and Studio Scheduling
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As the world’s largest studio advisory and production services company, The MBS Group services more than 500 sound stages across North America and Europe and supports more than 450 productions a year. The MBS Group provides studio management, studio design and development, and equipment inventories for lighting, grip, and expendables. The company has more than...
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How to Ensure a Seamless Migration to Salesforce Media Cloud
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No one likes moving houses. It’s a hassle to pack and unpack and set up all your new services like internet and electricity. But as much as it’s a pain to make the move, the outcome of a better living situation is usually worth it. Moving houses is similar to moving between Clouds. You know...
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How to Improve Your Ad Sales Process
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Do you know where your fax machine is? Probably stuck back in the ’90s with your CD player and VCR. While some industries still rely on faxes, the media industry is not one of them. They have moved on to automated, digital processes. Or have they? Some media companies have taken steps to modernize but...