Category: Industry News

Ralph Windsor of DAM consultants, Daydream is joining us as a contributing editor of DAM News to help Naresh and I with sourcing articles and writing commentary about the Digital Asset Management industry.  Ralph has previously contributed several articles for our features section, as well as helping Naresh to …

Back in April last year, we reported how various investment websites were ramping the potential of Cloud DAM vendors like KIT Digital by highlighting how they used (abused?) their contracts with clients to lock them in for 24 months to help guarantee a certain level of ‘income visibility’, as financial …

As reported in Press Gazette on Friday, paparazzi photo agency, Big Pictures, are currently undergoing  ‘cashflow problems’ and have been forced to clarify their position to staff:

“An email sent to staff today said that the company was not in administration and remains under the control of current …

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 …

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 …

Analyst, Forrester, have published a report on their assessment of the DAM market:

“In Forrester’s 15-criteria evaluation of the DAM market, we identified 12 significant vendors in the space — ADAM Software; Adobe; Autonomy, an HP company; Canto; celum; EMC; Extensis, a Celartem company; MediaBeacon; North Plains; OpenText; Widen …

Createasphere have announced that entries are open for their 3rd annual DAMMY awards.  The award categories are:

• Best Storage, Archive, and/or Preservation Solution
• Best Strategy or Solution for Digital & Media Asset Management during the Acquisition of Content
• Best Example of Asset & Media Re-purposing
• Best Strategy Ease of

With UAE residents spending at least 15 hours a week online, Steve Hamilton-Clark, CEO of TNS Mena, outlines how digital media is becoming a critical concern for brands in the Emirates.

“It is not simply about being good at digital marketing. It is about the success of the whole business …

Box.net announced last week that they secured another US $81m funding from NEA, Bessemer Venture Partners, salesforce.com, SAP Ventures and existing investors.  We have mentioned a number of times before how Box.net are more of a threat to their more expensive peers in both the ECM and DAM sector than …

The Adobe Max conference saw the announcement of a few acquisitions and new products which might show the direction the company is taking and some potential trends for DAM:

• Adobe announced they are acquiring Nitobi, sponsors of the open source PhoneGap system that allows end users to create mobile

In a recent move to enhance their image search, Google will now index the embedded Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) data from image files featured in their image search.  The EXIF format, that records detailed information regarding the technical specification of each image (such as aperture, focal length, exposure length …

Private equity investment group, North Bridge Venture Partners, has released the results of its annual Future Of Open Source survey in conjunction with 20 collaborators.  Unlike previous years, the vendor/non-vendor split was 40/60 in favour of the latter.  The results indicate that within the next five years, it …