Bynder Acquires WebDAM From Shutterstock
Some news announced today is that Cloud DAM vendor Bynder have acquired WebDAM from Shutterstock (who also bought them from the original founders four years […]
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The Politics Of Implementing Digital Asset Supply Chains: Parking The Enterprise Service Bus
I am currently involved in writing requirements analysis and specifications for several Digital Asset Supply Chain (DASC) projects. There are some interesting themes I have observed recently in-relation to the politics of managing their implementation which might be instructive for others planning similar initiatives.
Before I get into the detail …
Continue reading »Digital Asset Supply Chain Consortium – Invitation To Participate
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 …
Continue reading »Evolphin Announce Zoom 7 Media Asset Management Software
Evolphin have recently published a press release outlining a new version of their Zoom Media Asset Management (MAM) solution. Now in its seventh year, this latest release represents a comprehensive and mature platform equally suited to content creators, marketing departments and publishing outfits, and aims to manage the total lifecycle …
Continue reading »Updated Review of Bynder’s Orbit Platform
DAM News contributor, Spencer Harris, has recently posted an updated review of Bynder’s ‘Orbit’ DAM platform. His first review was back in September 2017 and concluded that although Orbit was a good starting point for a cloud-based sharing platform, it didn’t quite live up to expectations and had …
Continue reading »Blockchain And The Future Of Content DAM: Planned Industry Blockchain Consortium
Last month, Jean Lozano of Cloud DAM vendor, MediaValet wrote an article on their blog, Cryptomedia: Blockchain in the Digital Asset Management Space. The piece is quite interesting since it isn’t about the currently deflating tradable Crypto-as-a-security (or perhaps ‘CraaS’?) bubble and neither does it write the whole thing …
Continue reading »DAM Guru Program Appoints New Director
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 …
Continue reading »DAM News 2018 Vendor Pricing Survey – Request For Participation
As reported last year and in the email sent to those vendors registered on our DAM vendor directory yesterday, we are seeking expressions of interest from vendors who would like to participate in our 2018 DAM vendor pricing survey. This can be done via a form here: http://damvendors.com/pricing-survey/
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Continue reading »No DAM Is An Island
Customer Experience and Content Strategy guru Alan J. Porter has recently published an article on CMSWire entitled ‘Don’t Dismantle Data Silos, Build Bridges’.
The analogy he weaves – of castles representing data silos and drawbridges representing integration and interoperability is not an unfamiliar one to us here at …
Continue reading »Kodak Launch Crypto-Digital Asset Token And Blockchain For Photographers
Earlier this week, Kodak announced they were going to launch a crypto digital asset token called Kodakcoin:
“Utilizing blockchain technology, the KODAKOne platform will create an encrypted, digital ledger of rights ownership for photographers to register both new and archive work that they can then license within the …
Continue reading »Groundhog Day For Innovations In DAM Technology
Vice President of Development and Strategy at Extensis, Toby Martin, has recently published a rather reflective article entitled ‘Retrospective on Digital Asset Management Technology’ with the strapline ‘Putting the DAM Puzzle Pieces Together in 2017, 2018 and Beyond’.
Like numerous other articles from Extensis, it …
Continue reading »Filenames: Keys To Unlock The Findability Of Your Digital Assets
My co-contributor, Spencer Harris, has written the first DAM News feature article of 2018: The DAM Difference: Filename vs Metadata. In this item, Spencer discusses the value of filenames for digital assets:
“Think of your asset as a coin: it has monetary value, and when its use …
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