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description: To increase productivity and maintain brand consistency, marketers can share approved email templates with sales reps and other Salesforce users. Distributed Marketing and Alerts makes it easier for non-marketing users to send email content that’s on brand and approved by marketing.
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# Distributed Marketing and Alerts

To increase productivity and maintain brand consistency, marketers can share approved email templates with sales reps and other Salesforce users. Distributed Marketing and Alerts makes it easier for non-marketing users to send email content that’s on brand and approved by marketing.

[View supported editions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_editions.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Marketing Cloud Next is available in Growth and Advanced editions, and requires Salesforce Enterprise or Unlimited editions. Some features are limited by edition or purchased add-on. All functionality is available in Lightning Experience only.").

- **[Configure an Approved Email Template](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_content_dma_create_message.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Create a Distributed Marketing and Alerts template that includes approved content options, instead of creating content from scratch or uploading your own each time. Plus, set parts of the template as default or required to maintain brand compliance and consistency.
- **[Make an Approved Email Template Available](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_content_dma_create_flow.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To make marketer-approved emails and email templates available, first create an event-triggered flow manually or from a pre-built template. Then, customize the flow to include your approved template and configure the sender settings, scheduling options, and delivery preferences. When you activate the flow, users can personalize and send distributed messages by using the template.
- **[Send an Email with an Approved Distributed Marketing Template](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_content_dm_send_message.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    To create and send compliant Distributed Marketing and Alerts messages, choose a template or load a previously sent version, personalize with approved content, preview, and schedule or send immediately.
- **[Monitoring Performance for Distributed Marketing Messages](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_content_dm_monitor_performance.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    There are a few ways to track how recipients engage with your Distributed Marketing and Alerts messages. To get engagement data across your individual and bulk sends, check the Distributed Sends Performance tab. To view engagement highlights on lead, contact, and person account record pages, check the Unified Engagement History dashboard.

#### See Also

- [Set Up Distributed Marketing and Alerts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.mktg_admin_distributed_marketing.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "With Distributed Marketing and Alerts, marketers can help ensure quality content and consistent branding by sharing approved email templates with other users. To make Distributed Marketing and Alerts available, an admin must turn on the feature, assign permissions, and add the Distributed Marketing and Alerts components to campaign, lead, contact, and person account records.")