Case Studies / Schibsted

From 90% faster time to market to AI-powered interactive production

"Without Vev, we wouldn’t be able to deliver the immersive content at the speed and scale that we’re able to now."

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Ellen Cabrinetti Meum, Leader of Product & Tech

Font

Industry

Publishing and media

Headquarters

Norway

Use Cases

Visual storytelling

Landing pages

Custom component

AI-powered storytelling

90%
Decreased time to market

An introduction to Schibsted

Schibsted is an international family of digital consumer brands including world class media houses, leading marketplaces and digital services that empower consumers. Millions of people interact with Schibsted companies every day.

By improving their workflow, Schibsted was able to welcome bigger ideas across their entire company.

Chapter One: Schibsted's journey with Vev

The Challenge

Slow production processes limited sales

The amount of time and resources required to launch new sales concepts drastically limited their ability to run daily sales and campaign efforts. Marketers, Designers, and Developers were expected to manage multiple handoffs and rounds of iteration before anything saw the light of day.

Teams were unable to adapt to changes

Launching new communication material to existing subscribers and potential new customers required involvement from several departments. This was a collaboration nightmare and increased the time spent on even the most simple productions.

Technical requirements required hard coding, impacting performance

The business was stuck on older visual builders that generated heavy scripts that impacted site performance. They needed something that would be flexible enough to provide no-code visual building and advanced code injections.

Screenshot of a web design tool, showing its UI and a preview of a Norwegian business news website.

The Solution

Time savings were obvious in only four weeks

Schibsted was able to implement Vev and set up an entirely new workflow in only four weeks. In less than six months, they would make up all implementation costs. By November 2019, marketers and designers in all of their brands produce and launch sales campaigns for the first time, independent of the help of developers.

Vev stood out—way out

Launching new communication material to existing subscribers and potential new customers required involvement from several departments. This was a collaboration nightmare and increased the time spent on even the most simple productions.

Vev was easily implemented into Schibsted’s existing platform

Vev came complete with hosting and deployment integrations which made it easy to adapt to Schibsted's processes and workflows. Vev became a tool that could connect and distribute content across all their CMS platforms.

The Result

Decreased time to market by 90%

The first campaign running on Vev has reduced time spent by developers by 66% and is expected to decrease even further as their designers and marketers keep building competence and the QA is automated by Vev.

Bolder objectives are being met

The power to launch campaigns is now in the hands of the teams responsible for the results. Vev has reduced the time for sales communication to go live, from idea to actually being visible for their users, drastically! This has enabled their teams to make different and bolder choices when marketing Schibsted products.

A happier culture company-wide

After six months, Schibsted conducted a user survey with all parties involved. The tool is in use across almost all areas in the Consumer Business department: Sales and Marketing, their various brands, CRM and development. They have heard nothing but positive feedback regarding the ability to collaborate better, save time and produce better work overall.

Setting the stage for innovative digital content

As the market changes, so do their campaign needs, and Vev is able to not only change with Schibsted but they can use Vev as a way to stay ahead of the times.

They are discovering new fields for usage of Vev, like embedding web content on existing solutions or creating lightweight web applications and prototyping new ideas. Their development department is more effective – removing repetitive tasks for their valuable developers who can now spend their time building larger strategic solutions.

"Vev is a fantastic tool. I can work from anywhere and the tool enables me to make design and completely finished sites without much help from developers. I have more control on details now and get a better finish overall.”

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Designer, Schibsted

Chapter Two: From generative to operational, putting AI into live production

The Challenge

AI could generate content, but not content ready to publish

Most AI tools produced outputs the team had to export, restyle, recode, and rebuild before anything could go live. The faster AI generated ideas, the more time disappeared into cleanup.

AI lived outside the production environment

AI tools generated content in one place; the team designed and published in another. Every use of AI meant switching tools, exporting, and rebuilding the output inside the project where it actually needed to live.

The Solution

Element AI, used on live client work


Partnerstudio uses Element AI to build interactive components inside Vev — animated headlines, data visualizations, image comparison sliders. The output lands in the project ready to edit and ready to ship.

Editable from the start


AI-generated components arrive as working elements inside the design environment. The team can adjust styling, copy, branding, or behavior on the spot — no export, no re-implementation, no extra tools.

Built to fit the workflow that's already there

Element AI joins Vev's wider AI portfolio — text, image descriptions, page generation — and follows the same principle that made Vev work for Schibsted in 2019: meet the team inside the tools they already use.

The Result

From generative AI to operational AI

AI used to be a separate stop on the production line. With Element AI, generation happens inside the project where the work already lives.

Faster, on-brand interactive content

Components that used to need back-and-forth between designers, developers, and standalone AI tools now start as a sentence and end as a publishable component in the same Vev project. Concept to draft in minutes.

A workflow that grows with the team

Element AI gives Partnerstudio's designers more range without adding more tools. As the feature evolves, it evolves inside the environment the team is already shipping from — so new capability turns into new output, not new overhead.

"Element AI gives us a starting point that we can immediately shape and refine. It fits naturally into the way we already work, and that's what makes it so powerful.”

Ylva Vethe, Content Designer & Project Lead, Schibsted

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