Overview
What is Canto?
Canto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.
Canto is the way to go for the future!
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Encanto Canto.
Get your visual assets in order with Canto.
Amazing for Organization and Time Saving!
Canto is the only DAM Solution you should be looking at!
All the features we were looking for at a competitive price with Canto
Completely Canto!
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You can't beat Canto when it comes to asset management and sharing capabilities.
Canto is helpful software
Canto for internal documentation
Highly recommend Canto for digital asset management!!
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Popular Features
- Downloading assets (24)8.282%
- Asset sharing (24)7.979%
- Uploading assets (23)7.575%
- Asset search (24)7.474%
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What is Canto?
Canto delivers digital asset management capabilities while offering an intuitive experience for teams. Canto's AI Visual Search enables users to search their brand libraries using natural language.
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Features
Reporting & Analytics
Users can report on and analyze usage, performance, ROI, and/or other metrics of success.
- 6.7Dashboards(10) Ratings
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
- 6.6Standard reports(9) Ratings
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
- 6.5Content analytics(9) Ratings
Allow users to track digital asset usage and user engagement metrics across multiple channels.
DAM Features
Features commonly found in dedicated Digital Asset Management (DAM) Software.
- 7.5Uploading assets(23) Ratings
Ingestion of digital assets into a DAM platform can typically be made individually or in bulk and can occur through a native browser interface. Drag-and-drop features can streamline file ingestion.
- 8.2Downloading assets(24) Ratings
Downloads allow for role-based file conversions into multiple formats. Download settings can be configured to ensure compliance with licenses and copyrights. Assets may also be embedded into design files (like Adobe) for auto-updating other assets when versioning occurs.
- 7.2Categories(23) Ratings
Assets can be organized in drop-down menus to assist in discovery and grouped with related assets for greater utilization. Most DAMs offer AI and machine vision tagging tools to automatically recognize key data in visual elements which automatically sets tags and metadata fields.
- 8.2Asset storage(23) Ratings
Centralized storage capacity and accessibility for centralized storage of marketing and brand assets. These can be anything from documents, audio files, videos, images, creative files (Adobe, etc.), etc. Outdated assets can be archived.
- 7.9Asset sharing(24) Ratings
The ability to share and distribute assets with internal or external partners using sharing links attached to emails and messages, as well as portals. Data and assets can also be syndicated to third parties. Some DAMs enable asset publishing directly to end-user sites for more efficient distribution.
- 7.4Asset search(24) Ratings
Provides users with access to content and branded assets through filters and predictive keyword searches. Search filters may include file formats, date ranges, and metadata values. Advanced metadata and custom field options allow for assets to include unlimited details that allow for rich search parameters.
- 7.2Tagging system(23) Ratings
The ability to label assets with keywords makes them easier to find. Tagging can be automated and may offer bulk tagging capabilities.
- 6.4Content editing(16) Ratings
Templates and text editors facilitate the creation and publication of branded copy as well as asset cropping and modification. Version tracking should also be available for assets with duplicate names, along with their usage history. Some DAMs offer integration with editing tools so that high-fidelity edits can be made outside the DAM and automatically synced back as a new or updated version.
- 7Embed codes(10) Ratings
Blocks of HTML code that facilitate the inclusion of videos from third-party sources on websites.
- 6.7Metadata(20) Ratings
Descriptive information about data that can be indexed to assets to facilitate discovery and automation. This also allows asset use cases to be identified.
- 7.4Collections(21) Ratings
Enables users to create and share customizable asset collections with internal or external partners.
- 7User access(23) Ratings
Time or role-based access to stored and downloadable assets. This helps ensure that content is both up to date and accessible to only authorized individuals or groups for a predetermined amount of time.
- 6.7DAM Integrations(13) Ratings
Key integrations for Digital Asset Management can include out-of-box software integrations with CMS, CRM, PIM, Marketing Automation, etc.
- 6.8DAM API(8) Ratings
APIs act as an interface between apps and enable the creation of customized integrations that connect DAM platforms to other software. Digital assets can also be accessed and managed through other tools in a user's tech stack.
- 5.6Workflow automations(9) Ratings
Collaborative workflow with role-based permissions as well as tracking and monitoring of asset usage, requests, and assignments.
- 6.6Related asset discovery(13) Ratings
Automated ranking capabilities driven by metadata enable the quick discovery of assets related to those being visualized by users. The different assets that users have assigned to a particular product may also be displayed, facilitating connections between assets and products.
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- Competitors
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What is Canto?
Canto's platform, supported by a flexible and transparent pricing structure, caters to a diverse array of industries. It empowers companies ranging from teams of 50 employees to global enterprises to fuel their content delivery, maximizing their ROI.
Canto Features
DAM Features Features
- Supported: Uploading assets
- Supported: Downloading assets
- Supported: Categories
- Supported: Asset storage
- Supported: Asset sharing
- Supported: Asset search
- Supported: Tagging system
- Supported: Content editing
- Supported: Embed codes
- Supported: Metadata
- Supported: Collections
- Supported: User access
- Supported: DAM Integrations
- Supported: DAM API
- Supported: Workflow automations
- Supported: Related asset discovery
Reporting & Analytics Features
- Supported: Dashboards
- Supported: Standard reports
- Supported: Content analytics
Canto Screenshots
Canto Videos
Canto Integrations
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Box
- Mailchimp
- WordPress
- Slack
- Vimeo
- Drupal
- Egnyte
- Microsoft Windows
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe PhotoShop
- Adobe Illustrator CC
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Adobe Workfront
- Figma
- TYPO3
- monday.com
- Canva
- Adobe After Effects
- Google Analytics
- Hootsuite
- OneDrive
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Teams
- Wrike
- Zapier
- Sitecore Experience Manager
- macOS
- Google Chrome
- Marq
- Greenfly
- YouTube
Canto Competitors
Canto Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS |
Supported Languages | Czech, German, English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese (Simplified), Russian |
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(289)Attribute Ratings
- 9.2Likelihood to Renew18 ratings
- 6.4Availability1 rating
- 6.4Performance1 rating
- 8.5Usability95 ratings
- 6.5Support Rating157 ratings
- 8.5Online Training2 ratings
- 8.5Implementation Rating12 ratings
- 3.6Configurability1 rating
- 6.4Product Scalability1 rating
- 6.4Ease of integration1 rating
- 7.3Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 7.3Vendor post-sale1 rating
Reviews
(1-23 of 23)Canto is the only DAM Solution you should be looking at!
- Facial recognition technology helps us tag key staff automatically.
- The in-tool search and tagging features are very robust, allowing us to find the specific assets we need fast.
- The AI driven auto tagging is a nice addition and helps broaden what we can look for.
- The ability for outside vendors to seamlessly upload content straight into the tool saves a lot of work for us.
- The ability to selectively share out specific assets or folders with other departments or principals is a great way to really capitalize on our assets without creating extra work for my team.
- The price point is a bit high, so I'd like to see either more features to justify that or a price drop.
- The Adobe Connector interface is functional but could be a bit more drag and drop, right now it's a little clunky, if effective.
- Right now you can't share collections between users, it would be great if we could do that for major projects rather than having to create a new album or tag.
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- makes it easier to find images
- allows us to share images with customers
- portals are amazing!
- takes time to get it up and running
- learning curve
Highly recommend Canto for digital asset management!!
- Tagging ability
- Organizational tools for digital assets
- Automatic tags
- Customer support/learning hub tools
Canto image & asset management review.
- Facial recognition.
- Public portals for sharing.
- Supports single sign-on.
- Image management.
- More intuitive user experience.
- Had upload errors when using the Canto connect.
- More customization.
Canto is almost too good to be true!
- Canto is great at letting you add multiple tags to photos, documents, and files so that they can be found by anyone no matter how they might be searching for it.
- Canto has the upload ability to to complete transfer very large file folders and still keep the exact file structure and keep things labels and divided.
- Canto is wonderful at being able to look for random and specific items across a large platform by your simple words or phrases.
- Canto has a place where it automatically tags items as they are uploaded, and they call it smart tags. I think Canto could be tweaked a bit to pick up more common tags on it's own.
- Canto has facial recognition yet cannot search within a bunch of photo files for pictures with tile flooring in them. I think this is an area for improvement.
- Canto is able to upload large folders and keep the structure, but then is not able to keep the exact same structure when you are simply creating a new file within the program.
Choosing Canto is a great decision.
- Easy implementation
- Google Drive/External Link Synchronization
- Does all the hard work for us
- After the setup time frame, we got everything working to where it was 100%. We have enjoyed our service since implementation.
Great for agencies!
- Organization
- Search queries
- UX
- Onboarding is tough, but that's more because it's a robust tool and we're a team of over-thinkers :).
Canto is helpful
- Style guides for press kits
- Portals to share with clients
- Asset organization and management
- Difficult to navigate
- Learning curve
- Simpler settings
Another DAM?
- On Line Tutorials
- How To Videos
- Reference Materials
- Workspaces are a bit clunky
- Sales reps point to tutorials before reaching out
- Procurement process took long
Good for restriction of access by user type
Good for intelligent grouping of assets
Superior tagging and metadata functionality
DAM Canto!
- Structure and ease of use.
- Open communication with account manager.
- Some redundant features
Using Canto at a major university
- Canto allows for specific tags of photos, keeping assets highly organized
- Canto allows me to directly upload or import photos from other platforms, preserving crucial metadata
- Canto have Workspaces and Portals tools, allowing different levels of collaboration
- The tagging feature sometimes has issues, and can't recognize that a photo has the same tag if one has a capital letter and the other is lowercase
- Changing the metadata of lots of photos at once can be difficult and slow
- Not all user levels can delete photo albums, even if they created them
Excellent content storage and management with room for improvement
- Capacity--haven't needed to upgrade or change
- Upload link for non-admin contributors to share graphics and photos with the marketing team
- The ability for photos to be in multiple albums/locations reduces redundancies and helps people find things, even if they aren't where you would intuitively think they are
- The ability to share album links outside the organization
- Needs a reliable back button that goes up a level, not just to the photo you looked at before--maybe "back to album"
- When you create a link, it should automatically copy to the clipboard; the extra step of saying "copy" is annoying and I'm forever going out of the program just to have to go back and find what I was looking for because I forgot to hit "copy"
- Resolution of graphics in library/thumbnail view is not very high; it often looks blurry, so you have to click into the image to see the full photo, which also makes it hard when selecting between a handful of images for the one you actually want to download
- Visually appealing and simple user interface.
- Ability to house assets in multiple "folders" without file duplication.
- Ability to quickly create asset portals to give file access to others.
- In the stylebook area, it auto-populates the CMYK formula when you enter a Pantone number. I wish this could be adjusted since our company's guidelines do not match these auto-generated formulas.
- I wish there was a way to upload InDesign files and it's links together and the connection between the InDesign file and links would stay intact.
Best D.A.M. software!
- High security.
- Global access.
- Great customizable key wording and metadata fields.
- Originals are safe and secure.
- Some users not familiar with DAM have a hard time, but do catch on.
Intuitive Digital Assets Management
Everything is accessible to everyone who needs it no matter their location.
- Easy to use.
- Customizable access.
- Robust search functions.
- Browsing images could be faster.
- There is a learning curve.
- Initial image loading can be time consuming.
Good Search Capabilities, File Structure and Sharing
- Folder structure is easy to develop and use.
- Search capabilities make it easy to find files.
- Sharing internally and externally is easy given different sharing options.
- Versioning makes it easy to save versions without having to create new files each time.
- Adobe Integration is slightly lacking. Designers have to download packaged files in order to gain access to all the links. Canto connector does not function as well as would be expected.
User-Friendly, A Solid Solution
- The facial recognition feature does a great job, and is really helpful.
- It's easy to find assets via the search bar.
- Portals are great if you're using Canto to give assets to people outside of your company.
- Getting started with Canto is tough. It takes a long time to upload a massive amount of content and organize it.
- The folder structure can be annoying like learning the difference between album and folder, etc. Plus when you're uploading new content, it's hard to a new folder.
- At times it seems like there are too many features. It has a lot of features, but they don't all seem necessary. It seems like these features make it confusing and slow.
- No mobile app. I'd love an app to upload or download things from my phone.
Great for organizational type of people.
- Extremely customizable to the needs of our team.
- Keyword search for managing materials.
- Responsive interface.
- Video annotations to a specific time would be helpful.
- Being able to export parts of a video instead of all of it.
- Better AI to recognize content in images and categorize it automatically.
Excellent Platform!
- Great interface.
- Easy to download material.
- Easy to upload updated collateral.
- I find myself having trouble using the search tool.
- I wish I could organize into subfolders.
Great tool for digital assets
- The search feature is very robust and makes finding the assets you need easy and quick.
- Being able to create custom portals for our varied customers has really streamlined asset sharing.
- I am in and out of Canto all day, but it logs me out after only a little bit of time when I'm inactive. It would be nice if it was a longer window for Admins.
- The learning curve is a bit steep but it is really only because of how customizable and robust the program is.
Yes We Can(to)
- Easy to update and share.
- Great for organizing and separating projects into folders.
- Keyword search is easy.
- Edit history.
- Facial recognition on the app.
- More filters would be helpful when trying to find something specific that was not tagged properly.
Generally happy for the price point and our needs.
- Easy/intuitive layout and general interface that allows users to search via a search bar or through a more traditional folder layout.
- Branding Customization.
- Customization of the tags/categories to our specifications (custom fields).
- Very responsive to feature requests and program is updated with new additions frequently.
- Curated views allow us to "sort" our photos in an order that makes most sense within an album.
- Technical support is very responsive to issues. Makes sure to follow up with you to make sure things are functioning correctly.
- Integration has been somewhat challenging figuring out how to get the searches to yield results in the specific ways we want.
- Wish there were more specific/fined tuned permissions for individual users beyond the main 3 levels
- Facial Recognition doesn't work that well and in fact we have stopped trying to use it. Sometimes the photos will be almost exactly the same (head shots for example) and it doesn’t recognize them as the same person or will misidentify. The interface when it comes to both applying and searching through names is also very clunky.
- The ai "smart tags" have not been relevant for our business since most of our photos are of events not products being sold. The smart tags identify things like "human" "clothing" "accessories" which has no relevance to what people of our company will search. We end up having to go in and put in the tags manually.
Canto has been a valuable asset to our organization!
- Facial recognition.
- Details embedded in each photo.
- Easy and helpful customization for your needs.
- Employee training.
- Maybe ability to identify similar photos.