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 […]
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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 …
Continue reading »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 ago). There is more information here:
“When offered the chance to work together, we agreed. It was clear our combined teams could go …
Continue reading »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 …
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