Category: Industry News

A week or two ago, I covered an article about blockchain which specifically related to Content DAM and announced that I was setting up a DAM Blockchain consortium.  I have since spoken to a few different people and based on their feedback, we are extending the scope of this to …

DAM News editor, Ralph Windsor has been appointed as the new Director of the DAM Guru Program (DGP), a community focused on providing Digital Asset Management educational resources and connecting its network of managers, vendors, consultants and users.

“Consolidating the combined resources of  DGP with DAM News represents an …

I’m pleased to report today that we have a new staff writer joining us on the DAM News team.  My colleague from Daydream, Charles Russell will be taking over primary responsibility for the more news-related content so I can concentrate on feature articles and general editorial responsibilities.  All general editorial …

Longer-term DAM News readers might recall that the (now defunct) DAM Foundation used to run an annual salary survey where digital asset managers (i.e. those responsible for administering collections of digital assets) were invited to provide details of their remuneration package so that some analysis could be carried out into …

In the last few months, we have seen a marked increase in the interest in Digital Asset Supply Chain projects and (to a lesser extent) Creative Operations Management.  This is something we have talked about a lot on DAM News quite a lot, but the recent spike in demand …

Today we are launching a new title: Digital Asset News, this covers the subject of digital assets, but in a wider sense of the term and follows on from feature articles I wrote at the start of 2016, the piece on digital asset value chains going back to …

Yesterday, DAM vendor, ADAM announced that they had been acquired by MRM firm, Aprimo.  Here are the quotes from their respective bosses, first John Stammen, CEO of Aprimo:

“Our merger with ADAM will further expand our marketing asset management solutions and enable us to offer a complete …

Last month, I posted a request for contributions to an article series Improving DAM In 2017 And Beyond.  This is a reminder to anyone who has considered writing something that the deadline for submissions is just under three weeks away:

“I invite those who have an interest in …

A few different people have been in contact with me about this news and for anyone who has not yet heard, according to their website, the DAM Foundation has ceased operations as of yesterday, 5th January:

“Thanks to everyone who has participated over the last seven years. Special thanks …

Over the last few years, I have written a number of articles commenting on DAM innovation and how it seems to have become stuck in a rut and has not really moved forward a great deal (at least in a way which is tangible).

Having talked to a number of …

Deb Flanslow, one of the maintainers of the DAM Directory, has written an article describing the recent addition of a metadata standards section to the guide:

“So many standards, so little time! Wouldn’t it be nice to have a place to browse the most common metadata standards …

Readers may have noticed that we are now syndicating events from the DAM Guru Events Calendar on DAM News (in addition to Tim Strehle’s Planet DAM aggregated feed).  The latest events are included on the sidebar to the right and there is a dedicated resources page with a longer list.  …