Category: Industry News

DAM Guru Program, the association for Digital Asset Management industry practitioners sponsored by Picturepark has released some statistics about their membership (which is now 858-strong according to the stats).  There is some press about it and a link to a page with a summary of the stats.  This by …

Earlier this year, we invited those DAM vendors who have a listing on our DAM vendor directory to participate in an anonymous pricing survey and we asked for initial requests for interest.  A month ago, we sent a circular to those who had indicated they might be willing to do …

DAM News is in the process of setting up a vendor pricing survey to get a better idea of the range of fees being applied for DAM software (and associated services).  We have already contacted those firms who are registered on damvendors.com and currently around 30 have expressed an interest.…

DAM Guru Program (DGP) are hosting a webinar about DAM and The Semantic Web on 9th December at 10am PT.  The event will feature three speakers: Demian Hess (Director of DAM & Publishing Systems for Avalon Consulting), Margaret Warren (Owner of Metadata Authoring Systems) and Tim Strehle (Software Architect for …

Recent visitors to DAM News might notice the sidebar with links from Tim Strehle’s Planet DAM feed which we have now syndicated (with Tim’s permission).  Planet DAM is Tim’s hand-picked selection of DAM articles from different participants in our industry and includes vendors, consultants and a variety of personal blogs …

Deb Fanslow who is one of the editors of The DAM Directory (and who wrote the four-part feature article Who Needs A DAM Librarian?) together with John Horodyski have contributed a feature article for DAM News: DAM Student And DAM Professor Combine Forces For DAM Good.  The article …

Earlier today,I cam across this item on Computer Business Review: $billion businesses lead digital content management adoption.  The basis of the article is some research by analysts Kable where they highlight that approximately 75% of larger businesses with a $1bn+ turnover have now invested into Digital Asset Management technologies …

The DAM Guru Program (DGP) which is sponsored by DAM vendor, Picturepark, announced on Tuesday that they are now matching requests for freelance assistance with registered gurus, in addition to full-time jobs:

“DAM Guru Program is now two years old and more than 650 signups strong. To enable …

DAM Foundation have recently announced that they are now testing DAM vendors for their ten core characteristics, based on an article Elizabeth Keathley wrote last year.  The ten attributes are formalised in this article by Mark Davey.  They have checked and approved about 16 different vendor products …

According to VentureBeat yesterday, Adobe have acquired stock photo library, Fotolia for US $800m.  They cite the following statement from the official Adobe announcement:

“Adobe today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Fotolia, a leading marketplace for stock content. Fotolia will be …

Deborah Fanslow and Emily Kolvitz have put together a DAM Directory under the auspices of DAM Foundation with a lot of useful links to various DAM information, reference guides and sites, including: resources, organisations, publications, vendors, consultants and case studies.  The directory is sub-divided into Corporate DAM and Jobs sections …

DAM Foundation, President, Mark Davey has written an article where he proposes 10 defining characteristics of  DAM systems.  The list appears to be derived from an article Elizabeth Keathley wrote which we covered last month on DAM News, but they have tightened up the list and made …