Category: Industry News

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 …

Tim Strehle, whose blog is listed as one of our featured DAM resources, has developed a useful page where he has aggregated multiple DAM-related RSS and Twitter feeds into a single river of news.  He also has links to 121 (and counting) DAM products.  His blog contains …

Last week, Cloud Storage provider, Dropbox, announced they were launching a media sharing application called Carousel.  This allows simplified browsing of images or video held in your account and (more importantly) it includes features to share this media with other users.  Carousel is delivered as a mobile application …

At DAM News we have recently been working on a dedicated site where those who need some Digital Asset Management expertise (including supplying software products) can post up their requirements.  I am pleased to say that DAM Projects is now live and open for anyone who wishes to post.  My …

Earlier this week, stock media leviathan, Getty Images announced that is was going to allow some limited cost-free non-commercial usage of its library of 35m images.  They have to be housed within their own embed player which is similar to the method employed by YouTube where the media resides on …

When he is not practising his usual hobby of trashing DAM vendors (deservedly in some cases, it should be said) my co-contributor has also been less than complimentary about the DAM Award business too.  Although we definitely don’t agree on everything, some of the selections of the DAMMY award …

The DAM Guru Programme (DGP – administered by vendor, Picturepark) have announced what they call ‘DAM Pro Job Mashup’ – a kind of virtual job fair:

“This virtual job fair features members of DAM Guru Program who are looking for new employment opportunities. Throughout the month of October, …

The GSIM (Global Stock Image Market) Research Group have published their 2012 research into the stock media market:

“In 2012 the GSIM Research Group carried out the first ever global survey on over 2,400 image suppliers on a truly worldwide basis. With a response rate of over ten per …

North Plains, have announced today that they have acquired UK based vendor, VYRE:

“This acquisition continues our rigorous focus on enabling North Plains customers to better connect and engage with their target audience by unleashing the power of their visual media,” said James Christopher, President and CEO, …