CHAPTER 3: TAKE ACTION WITH YOUR DATA

Learn how to use intelligence to take proactive action.

 
 
 
 
 
Imagine studios under pressure to be more efficient in content distribution. They can use AI to predict marketing performance, perform more targeted A/B tests, and even use it to remove inefficiencies in their operations to bring their creative work to market faster.

Stay Two Steps Ahead

M&E companies can use AI to keep up with the evolving consumer landscape and address behaviors and needs in real time. There are two ways to think about action and implementation: predictively and prescriptively. That’s because AI helps M&E organisations keep up with the evolving consumer landscape and market dynamics and address behaviors and needs in real time. There are two ways to think about how AI works: predictively and prescriptively.

Predictive intelligence mines through large volumes of data in order to identify valuable relationships between cause and effect. It uses those patterns and relationships to make educated predictions. This makes it possible for an M&E company to anticipate behaviors and create and maintain a more personalised customer experience in these ways:

  1. You have insight into how marketing affects factors such as leads and open pipelines by region, segment, and product
  2. You can use historical browsing and purchase data to predict which channels, content, products, and messaging will garner the best response
  3. You can create custom models that predict churn risk, likelihood to convert, delayed payments, and lifetime value

Prescriptive action describes the process by which AI uses predictions to suggest a range of prescribed actions that improve outcomes. When combined with predictive analytics, prescriptive action can suggest options that take advantage of future opportunities while mitigating future risks. Here are a few common examples for M&E organisations:

  1. You have the ability to adjust campaigns to better target audiences and get a better ROI
  2. You can surface specific content or offers based on previous engagements as well as viewing history
  3. You can create personalised journeys for predefined customers. So, if you have a segment likely to churn, you can anticipate it and proactively take them on a personalised, win-back journey.
Learn more about Salesforce predictive and prescriptive intelligence with Sales Cloud Einstein, Service Cloud Einstein, and Einstein Analytics.

CONCLUSION: Take smart actions for great reactions

M&E organisations have always had a finger on the pulse of culture and society, which often leads and reshapes them. In order to continue to play this vital role, M&E companies need to respond to consumers in a way they’ve come to expect — personally, immediately, and intelligently. Data is the key to make this happen.

Not only that, data is arguably the most important resource in business. So much so that 90% of corporate strategies will explicitly mention information as a critical enterprise asset and analytics as an essential competency by 2022. According to McKinsey & Company, organisations that are more data-driven perform better on these key business metrics:

 
 

23x

more likely to add customers

 

9x

more likely to retain customers

 
 

19x

more likely to be profitable

 

1.5x

more likely to report revenue growth >10%

 

7x

faster growth than global GDP

Discover how Salesforce can help your M&E organisation unlock, understand, and act on data. Learn more.

 

 

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