2. Companies in media are creating more
content—faster— with less resources
1 2 3
Media file sizes continue
to grow
External collaboration
across tools and
ecosystems
Need to control
sensitive IP
3. Dropbox Business helps create securely,
efficiently, and more cost-effectively
Best-in-class
integrations
Centralize work from
multiple projects
Access content from one place with
world-class sync technology
Connect content owners
and creators
Solutions to enable work streams
across the entire content lifecycle
Securely control and
manage your IP
Extensive security and administration
features that scale with your team
4. Use cases solved
Dropbox in Media
Centralize work from
multiple projects
Connect content owners
and creators
Securely control and
manage your IP
DBX Platform streamlines workflows
across apps for 20k users across 10
business units
“Dropbox makes a significant business
impact in providing a central hub for all
content, and Smart Sync makes it even
easier for our teams to access all the
content they need.”
Jon Chu, Head of User Experience &
Innovation
Moved from personal Dropbox
accounts to Dropbox Business to
take advantage of robust admin
features, such as, deletion recovery
and version history.
Dropbox aspires to do more than syncing our customers’ files. Everything our product team focuses on now and in the future, is to unleash the world’s creative energy by designing a central workspace that helps teams stay organized and keep them in their flow.
Given our work with customers in the publishing industry, we’ve heard about some of the common challenges with getting teams and their work in sync.
Media file sizes continue to grow
Even with traditional publishers, we’re seeing more video content being produced(and at higher resolutions).
Legacy tools like FTP, email, and network shares are slowing teams down.
External collaboration across tools and ecosystems
Publishers are collecting and producing content across different silos and applications.
They need solutions to bridge all of these tools and creators without losing time.
Need to control sensitive IP
Publishers cannot simply lock down their whole environment to achieve security.
They need to leverage powerful SaaS tools for content collaboration and creation.
And prioritize tools with appropriate security controls that don’t take users out of their creative flow.
Do these scenarios/trends resonate? Are there other challenges that [Company] faces? What tools are used to keep these workflows in sync? What works well, and what doesn’t?
We’ve had customers with those same challenges. Here’s what Dropbox Business is doing for them.
Centralize work from multiple projects
Manage artwork and organize files or photos from various partners/freelancers with Dropbox’s file request feature.
No file size limits.
Use Dropbox Smart Sync to access all of your videos, photos, or illustrations without taking up space on your hard drive or mobile device.
Connect content owners and creators
Access one central project-wide system for all parties on the project team. Share seamlessly with copy writers, designers, or reporters with a tool they already use.
Reliably upload and collaborate on large files, in the office or remotely.
With Dropbox file previews, you can view and comment on PDFs, Photoshop documents, and Excel files on mobile.
Dropbox provides powerful integration with publishing industry applications such as Microsoft and Adobe.
Securely control and manage your IP
Simple, clear sharing controls that reduce user error.
Security & compliance tracking. Remote wipe files from lost or stolen devices to keep company files in the right hands. Easily recover deleted layout files and restore previous file versions of Photoshop docs.
Team folders with pre-defined hierarchical structure for teams across the organization.
Audit log for compliance.
But, don’t just take our word for how Dropbox is making a difference with publishers. We’ve had customers with those same challenges. Here what Dropbox Business is doing for them. [Choose 1 to go into detail on]
Hearst is one of the nation’s largest diversified media companies and owns over 300 magazines, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE and Harper’s Bazaar.
The Harper’s Bazaar Sales and Marketing team used Dropbox to replace FTP sites for collaboration on magazine spreads and as the primary vehicle to preview magazine covers and advertisements quickly and easily.
By providing a tool that users love, they also reduced the use of unsanctioned transfer tools like WeTransfer.
News Corp is a global media and information services company with headquarters in New York. Their assets range across news, book publishing, digital education and sports programming, with highlights including Dow Jones, WSJ, News UK, New York Post and HarperCollins
The News Corp deployment includes 20k+ users spread across 10 major business units
Dropbox use cases include:
Production management for Snapchat Discover stories by The Sun.
External collaboration between The Times (News UK) Head of Marketing and external creative agencies and video companies.
Collaboration on video for the Wall Street Journal’s website.
Sample workflow: Dow Jones replaced an outdated, homegrown document management system with an internally developed application that uses the Dropbox API to auto-save files from Salesforce to Dropbox. They push about 200 contracts through this flow every month and the team claims that our API was very easy to work with
Refinery 29 is the largest independent fashion and style website in the US.
The company’s trend-spotting editors are distributed across the globe and needed a more efficient way to collaborate remotely, initially leading to the use of personal Dropbox accounts
The company’s marketing team creates new Dropbox folders for each of its major projects
From small mishaps like accidental file deletions to catastrophes like natural disasters, Dropbox for Business has given Refinery29 new peace of mind. Senior photo editor Christy Kurtz is grateful for the day-to-day time savers like deletion recovery and version history. “It’s incredibly helpful to be able to restore lost assets so easily,” said Kurtz. But she’s even more thankful to Dropbox for keeping their company afloat during Hurricane Sandy. “Dropbox saved us during the hurricane. No one had to struggle to remotely log in to a server from home. We didn’t have to stop working — even for 5 minutes.”
How did we get to over 300,000 customers? We’ve built on our strengths as a company - our innovation and our focus on our customers. We think we have a unique approach to building a product that keeps teams and their work in sync. There are three reasons for this:
First, Dropbox is really easy to use, which drives adoption. We see lots of employees (500 million people worldwide) picking up Dropbox to solve their problems, and they love how easy it is to use. But, design makes it simple: Dropbox is very sophisticated under the hood. IT admins appreciate the power AND ease of use.
Second, we are designed to scale with the size and complexity of any organization. IDC’s study shows that Dropbox’s sync speed is the industry’s leader and works reliably with teams small and large.
Third: we have more than 500,000 developers driving our open collaboration platform, which allows our customers to tightly integrate Dropbox Business and Dropbox Paper with all of their important apps, from Autodesk to Microsoft Office.
ALL of this is supported by a foundation of enterprise-grade security that makes sure that your team’s work is protected in transit and in rest.
I’m going to spend a bit of time going through each of these things that makes Dropbox different – and take you through a demo of key features, so that you can see them in action. Why Dropbox? Let’s go find out.