This CMO.com article was written by Nick Van Weerdenburg, Senior Product Marketing Manager from one of our featured DAM vendors, North Plains. It is mercifully free of sales spin about how great NP are and explains how more demanding requirements from other industries have helped shape DAM solutions and …
Continue reading »Amazon Web Services (AWS) have released a new storage system: ‘Glacier’, which is being marketed as an alternative to tape storage for anyone who needs to archive large quantities of data. The name appears to be some ironic joke about the speed with which you can get your data back …
Continue reading »Open source DAM vendor, Razuna, have released version 1.5 of their flagship DAM system. The new features include:
As reported on WhichStockAgency.com, Getty Images, who own large swathes of the market for stock media assets have announced today that they have been acquired from former owners, Hellman & Friedman by a combined buy out consisting of The Carlyle Group, a private equity hedge fund (or ‘alternative …
Continue reading »David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide and Marketing Director of Picturepark has written a special feature for DAM News which we have published today: The Inhumanity Of DRM. The article discusses the value of DRM and despite the numerous DRM related features that DAM vendors add to …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, ADAM, have released ‘Teamwork’, a solution to provide annotation and workflow features:
“Teamwork is designed specifically to match the precise requirements of marketing managers handling cross-media campaigns, rather than print-related tasks. Also, the availability of ‘workflow blocks’ means that Teamwork makes it …
Continue reading »Onlinevideo.net has posted a review of various commercial transcoding and encoding tools. They cover hardware, software and cloud based tools, including the following:
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Continue reading »As reported on WhichStockAgency.com (and sourced from TheNextWeb.com) Snapixel, a microstock photo exchange has closed its doors and will power down their servers on 31st August 2012:
“Snapixel originally launched in October 2009 as a hybrid between a stockphoto marketplace à la iStockphoto and a photo sharing …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Picture Park, are running another in their series of DAM related webinars. This event has the title DAM and the Tao of Taxonomy and it takes place on Wednesday 29th August 2012 at 10am Pacific Time (which is 6pm UK or 7pm for …
Continue reading »Edward Smith, of Extensis has written an article for CMSWire.com entitled: Who Should Enter Metadata in Digital Asset Management?
“Metadata is important because it helps you and other DAM users find the right files (keywords), understand the content of the files you find (descriptions) and use those files correctly …
Continue reading »One of our featured DAM vendors, Widen, have released an article on auditing your existing DAM system. They cover a number of steps, including:
The Law Enforcement and Emergency Services Video Association (LEVA) is including a special Digital Asset Management Expo at their annual conference on October 22nd-26th 2012 in San Diego:
“A number of hands-on workshops will be offered during the conference, focusing on DME laboratory best practices, DSLRs for crime/critical incident …
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