The Mphasis Silverline Blog
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Media & Entertainment
The Top 6 Features of Salesforce for Ad Sales Management
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You probably have a particular daily routine for consuming media. Perhaps you turn on a TV morning news program while you drink your coffee. You listen to a podcast while you’re working out. You run an errand, and your car is tuned to your favorite ’80s music satellite radio station. Your media is customized to...
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4 Advertising Metrics Every Advertiser Should Focus On
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The Sears Wish Book was the Amazon of its day. First published in 1933, the catalog featured everything from toys to jewelry to pianos. It was like one giant advertisement for Sears products. At its high point, Sears was printing 7 million copies each year. But the catalog was discontinued in 2011, around the time...
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3 Ways to Simplify the Complexity of Cross-Channel Ad Sales
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The modern-day advertising experience is enormously fragmented for both media companies and advertisers. Media companies engage consumers across channels like streaming services, TV, radio, out-of-home, digital, mobile, social media, and more. But there is still no all-in-one way to do this without using a multitude of platforms to sell, execute, and measure multi-format advertising campaigns....
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Silverline Announces Mediaocean Integration for Salesforce Media Cloud
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Silverline, a digital transformation consultancy and Salesforce partner headquartered in New York City, announced today its new Mediaocean integration for Salesforce Media Cloud. Mediaocean’s certified integration for Salesforce streamlines the RFP ingestion process, replacing the manual former process of sending emails with attached RFPs. The Mediaocean integration automatically creates RFPs in the Salesforce platform and...
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How 3 Media Companies Used Salesforce to Transform Their Operations
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Many media organizations have an ongoing struggle to keep up with the fast pace of industry change, whether they are adapting to multiple channels or adjusting to a new toolbox of advertising options. They are stuck with outdated systems and processes that are not able to meet their clients’ expectations, and teams are challenged by...
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5 Ways to Make Your Advertising Business Bulletproof
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Over the last ten years, we’ve seen the rise of a completely new way of thinking about advertising as a business. Gone are traditional channels like print and television. Today, it’s all about digital first. One of the key learnings for me as an executive over these last ten years? There’s no such thing as...
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Why It’s Time to Reimagine Digital Ad Sales
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When we talk about the selling motion changing, we used to call it simplified selling. You bought print, digital, or out of home in a simple way. But multiple technologies are required to support that “simple” model, making it completely siloed. It’s time to reimagine digital ad sales. For companies to be successful today, publishers...
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A Data-Driven Ads Strategy Starts with Knowing Your Data
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Do you know your media data? If you’re anything like most digital ad companies today, you’re probably looking at multiple databases and platforms, each housing critical pieces of information: audience demographics here, website behavior there, social media performance in another place entirely. With data all over the place, no wonder the top challenge I hear...
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The Secret to Better Advertising? Better Relationships
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Who do you trust more, a billboard or a friend? That’s a trick question. It’s obviously the billboard. (Sorry, I couldn’t help it.) Today’s consumers are more media-savvy than ever. The average person sees between 6,000 and 10,000 advertisements per day — and that number has only gone up over time. They know that you’re...
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How to Manage Your Data in a World Without Cookies
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You may have heard that Google plans to phase out third-party cookies by 2022, which has been the gold standard for advertising tracking and retargeting. More importantly, they also announced they would not be creating “alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.” Why...
