Mediaocean empowers better customer support teams and content with Zendesk

Mediaocean is an advertising service and software company, headquartered in New York City, with 1,000 employees serving more than 80,000 clients in over 77 markets and a global media spend of over $140 billion. The company was founded in 2012 through the merger of two technology advertising firms.

After its founding, Mediaocean evaluated 10 customer service vendors before choosing the Zendesk Support platform to manage its global support activities. Three years later, however, a private equity firm acquired a majority share in the company and mandated switching to an alternative platform. When the new platform began causing problems, Mediaocean reverted to the Zendesk solution, to the delight of both employees and clients. To quantify the business benefits from the Zendesk redeployment, IDC interviewed Stephanie Dorman, senior vice president of Client Services. IDC forecasts that with Mediaocean will realize a five-year return on investment (ROI) of 170%, with a payback period of just under six months.