Category: Opinion

A new interview has been added to the DAM News interviews area.  Michael Wells, Managing Director of DAM vendor, Thirdlight is the subject on this occasion.  This is the first interview we have conducted with a vendor representative (but others certainly are planned) and it belies the myth …

We have recently published an interview with Henrik de Gyor, who many readers will know from Another DAM Podcast and Another DAM Blog.  The piece contains a number of fascinating insights and is well worth checking out.  Henrik’s vision for what DAM may look like in five years’ …

In the past on DAM News, we used to receive details of vendor updates to their DAM products quite frequently.  For a while, we referred to it as a ‘features arm race’ where vendors competed with each other to make announcements about new functionality they were hastily adding to their …

On our features section, I have published an article: Re-Visiting Pure and Applied Digital Asset Management which (among other topics) discusses the on-going debate over changing the name of Digital Asset Management to Content Management:

“In the same way the discussion about the three letter acronym has occupied way …

Alan Porter, Director of Product Marketing at DAM software vendor Nuxeo, has written a feature article for DAM News, ‘How to Accelerate your Ideas to Market through Product Asset Management‘ which explores the impact of DAM on Product Asset Management (PAM), and how its role is …

DAM Federation member and community engagement initiative DAM China Connect has recently conducted an interview with ICP‘s CEO Victor Lebon.  With the rise of martech in China, ICP’s opening of a new office in Shanghai could represent a new wave of DAM providers attempting to infiltrate this emerging …

I have written an opinion feature article for DAM News entitled, Why People Really Are More Important Than Technology In Digital Asset Management.  In the piece I examine the current state of the DAM market as 2019 draws to a close:

“The sell-side of the market has fetishized …

Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9 has recently written a feature article entitled Confessions of a DAM Vendor.  Being on the sell-side of the DAM industry for over two decades, Kevin has seen the rise and fall of various trends and tactics, and in this candid post he reveals …

Back in 2016, I wrote an opinion piece investigating the Digital Asset Management research report marketplace, drawing a parallel between businesses selling DAM market research publications and the war for supremacy amongst North London’s kebab shops.

I noted the disparities between the figures presented by the (then) current reports …

A few weeks ago, we published the first two instalments of an interview I conducted with David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, founder of The DAM Guru Program and former Marketing Director of vendor, Picturepark. In this piece, I ask David whether the DAM market has ceased …

Earlier this week, we published the first instalment of an interview I conducted with David Diamond, author of the DAM Survival Guide, founder of The DAM Guru Program and former Marketing Director of vendor, Picturepark.  In this second excerpt, he goes on to discuss whether the characterisation …