Blockchain Adoption – Overcoming Immutable Caution
Against the backdrop of hype, promise and innovation, real-world adoption of blockchain technology has been markedly slow. While many businesses and organisations have shown a […]
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DAM Apocalypse – Brandfolder Integration Swells The Horde
A genre that’s become as tenacious as its undead agitators, the zombie movie has been with us for over half a century now. In comparison, innovation within the DAM sector appears to have already reached the rigor mortis stage and the whiff of decomposing imagination is beginning to wrinkle the …
Continue reading »File-Sharing Versus DAM: A Narrowing Of Widen’s Vision?
Nora Gehin, from Digital Asset Management vendor Widen has recently published an article pitting file-sharing platforms such as Dropbox and Google Drive against dedicated DAM systems. It’s an argument that – aside from being overcooked – consistently manages to over-simplify the comparison and fails to identify the core underlying differences …
Continue reading »Bytom Blockchain Tech: Bridging The Atomic And Byte Worlds
Crypto news website CryptoSlate have recently published an article ‘Introduction to Bytom (BTM) – A Digital Asset Layer Protocol’. Bytom’s mission statement, outlined in their whitepaper, is “to bridge the atomic world and the byte world, to build a decentralized network where various byte assets and atomic …
Continue reading »The Implications Of DAM Software’s Gradual Transition Into A Channel Partner/Integrator Business Model
I have written a feature article for DAM News about the risks (as I see them) to the financial stability and long-term survival of the DAM software market based on a number of trends I have seen gradually emerging largely as a result of the use of cloud technology. I …
Continue reading »Aprimo Presents New Tools For Content Marketing, Creatives And DAM
Marketing and asset management outfit Aprimo have recently announced a couple of innovations for content marketers and creatives: a rather unimaginatively named ideation tool called ‘Idea Lab’, and the Article Editor, which ‘enables content marketers to support text-based content along with rich media content in one single, easy-to-use interface’.
Aprimo’s …
Continue reading »IPV Announces Launch Of Curator 2.0
Media solutions outfit IPV has just announced the release of a new version of its asset management system. Presented as an all-in-one media asset management suite, Curator 2.0 is due to be showcased at the 2018 NAB show in Las Vegas.
I’m not overly keen on name-dropping as it often …
Continue reading »Widen Close SmartImage: More Proof That The Current DAM Software Market Does Not Scale
Recently, DAM vendor, Widen announced they were shuttering their DAM Lite product, SmartImage:
“We are grateful for all the support we’ve received from our Smartimage customers. However, Smartimage will be ending May 25, 2018. This is a strategic decision Widen (Smartimage parent company) has made to ensure we …
Continue reading »A Glimpse Into The Future Of Blockchain Technology
An interesting little nugget has recently appeared on the Coindesk blog, entitled ‘In 10 Years We Won’t Have Blockchains’. Its author, and Vice President for blockchain at Talla.com, Will Murphy, posits that the term ‘blockchain’ will no longer be meaningful in the future. He begins by summarising the …
Continue reading »DAM News Digital Asset Manager Salary Survey – Further Request For Participation
Back in November, we announced that we were reviving the DAM Salary Survey with the (gratefully received and much appreciated) assistance of Elizabeth Keathley and Deb Fanslow.
“All responses are anonymous and you are not asked for your name, nor email address etc. There are 35 questions, …
Continue reading »DAM Guru Members Discuss The Digital Asset and Content Leadership Exchange Conference
Carol Thomas my DAM Guru Program (DGP) colleague has recently published a series of questions and answers on the DGP blog from our members who attended the Insight Exchange Network (IEN) conference ‘The Digital Assets & Content Leadership Exchange’, that took place in New York, this January:
“Though this …
Continue reading »Bynder’s WebDAM Acquisition – ‘Stronger Together’ Or Proof That The Current DAM Software Market Does Not Scale?
Last Friday, we reported that venture capital funded DAM vendor, Bynder had bought up WebDAM from their previous owners, microstock media library, Shutterstock. The irony of a DAM vendor being sold a fairly pedestrian DAM system by a photo library (rather than the other way round) will probably not …
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