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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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Combine the Power of Salesforce and Slack for Media Success
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We’re using a new slang term around the Silverline offices – Slacktivation. This combo of Slack and activation refers to our work as an official Slack-first Customer 360 launch partner for media. The goal of Slacktivation is for Silverline’s media clients to get more value from leveraging Salesforce and Slack together. We often see media...
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Getting Started with Advertising Agency Automation
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Ad Age holds its annual Small Agency Awards to honor small, independent agencies with teams of 1 to 150 people that are not part of the behemoth holding agencies like WPP or Interpublic Group. In the past couple of years, Ad Age has put its awards focus on small agencies that have excelled despite the...
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Salesforce Media Cloud vs. Sales Cloud: What’s The Difference?
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Salesforce’s vast number of choices across its product lines can feel overwhelming. It is helpful that Salesforce has products that range from general to customized across various industries and needs. Still, companies often don’t know where to start or have a true understanding of which products will fit their particular needs. We see this sense...
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How Silverline Transformed Samba TV’s Sales Platform for Stronger Alignment
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Founded in 2008, Samba TV is the global leader in first-party data for Connected TV (CTV) and omniscreen advertising and analytics. Samba TV’s software is integrated at the chipset level into 24 of the leading, global CTV brands, providing first-party insight into viewership data across broadcast, cable, over-the-top, and digital media from millions of devices...
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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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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...