Hewson
Blue Crack Supplier
I thought for sure it'd be Schwinn.
Band may be hitting a new sponsorship low...greed is good.
U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015 Powered by Salesforce -- SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
SAN FRANCISCO, March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the Customer Success Platform and world's #1 CRM company, today announced that the U2 iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour 2015 will be powered by Salesforce as part of a global sponsorship agreement.
in the Bay Area, Salesforce is more popular than Facebook and Twitter, fyi. You can hate corporate sponsorship, just know that it's not some old people's laxative manufacturer that's sponsoring this tour. SF is certainly more viable than Blackberry.
What is it?
With the 6th London show, what are the chances more shows/cities are announced (probably wishful thinking on my part)? Or are we pretty much tapped out of new show announcements?
Tuna on toast?
I honestly have no response to this sponsorship news. None that is positive, at least.
So what's wrong with this sponsorship?
This deal has Bono's hands (well, at least his right one) all over it.
The Salesforce people seem to be into the music though, they had Brandon Flowers play their shindig at the WEF in Davos in January.
What is it?
As someone who uses Salesforce, I'll try to make it clear as possible for those unfamiliar with CRM. It's basically software for salespeople on territories. I work in pharma, and we use Salesforce to track interactions between salespeople in the field and the doctors they are targeting on their territories. Salespeople record each visit they have with doctors (most companies that work with Salesforce have apps for tablet computers for doing this), and all of that data can be packaged into literally thousands of different reports on how your company's salespeople are doing in the field: product-based, location-based, etc.It's the top CRM - Customer Relationship Management (aka database) platform today, at least in the U.S.
https://www.salesforce.com/
Don't want to start any blasphemous rumours but I think U2's got a sick sense of humour
Especially when it comes down to asking +100's of bucks for a seated ticket.
And yet still having the audacity to get a sponsor as well.
Last tour I pictured they NEED sponsoring for the amazing Claws they build and the transport of the bloody things. Which must have cost a shitload of money..
But now? I can only imagine profit