Digital Asset Management Software

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Image Relay

Image Relay Marketing Delivery keeps digital assets and product information in one place with the goal of supporting fast, seamless creation and delivery.

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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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Acquia DAM (Widen)

Acquia DAM (Widen) helps brands manage and distribute assets across teams, tools, and channels. A configurable metadata schema provides business-specific search and workflow capabilities. Plus, AI-powered auto tagging makes assets instantly findable. Content can be synced across…

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Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering…

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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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Oracle Marketing

Oracle CX Marketing (formerly Oracle Marketing Cloud) is a solution designed to enable marketers to plan and execute automated marketing campaigns via email, display search, video advertising, and mobile while delivering a personalized customer experience for their prospects.

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Acquia DAM (Widen)

Acquia DAM (Widen) helps brands manage and distribute assets across teams, tools, and channels. A configurable metadata schema provides business-specific search and workflow capabilities. Plus, AI-powered auto tagging makes assets instantly findable. Content can be synced across…

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Adobe Experience Manager

Adobe Experience Manager is a combined web content management system and digital asset management system. The combined applications of Adobe Experience Manager Sites and Adobe Experience Manager Assets is offered by the vendor as an end-to-end solution for managing and delivering…

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MediaValet

MediaValet’s Digital Asset Management platform makes enterprise digital libraries accessible, discoverable, and shareable to the organization's entire ecosystem – globally.

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Aprimo

Aprimo is a provider of digital asset management and work management solutions. Its content operations platform provides organizations with a single source of truth to optimize the way they plan, develop, organize, govern, and deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale. Aprimo’…

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Image Relay

Image Relay Marketing Delivery keeps digital assets and product information in one place with the goal of supporting fast, seamless creation and delivery.

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Nuxeo

The Hyland Nuxeo Platform is a cloud-native, cloud-first, scalable solution which utilizes automation technologies to improve efficiencies, increase accuracy, and provide its capabilities. With it’s low-code technology, organizations can implement Hyland’s Nuxeo Platform with customizable…

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Optimizely Content Marketing Platform

Optimizely's Content Marketing Platform brings teams together in a single workspace to share plans, collaborate on assets and flawlessly execute campaigns.

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Uptempo

Uptempo is marketing planning software used by enterprise marketing teams to centralize campaign and budget planning, track spending, predict and monitor performance, and pivot plans in real-time to enable marketing agility.

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Bynder

Bynder helps brands to distribute their marketing materials, manage creations and facilitate brand consistency. Bynder is a solution for marketing that comes with best in class digital asset management, creative project management, brand identity guidelines, product information…

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CoSchedule Marketing Suite

CoSchedule provides a content calendar, content optimization, and contentmarketing products, with users among 50,000 marketers worldwide, helping them organize their work, deliver projects on time, and prove marketing team value.

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pCloud

pCloud is a cloud- based digital asset management platform that provides access to all digital content including images,video, audio, documents, and more, anytime, anywhere, on any device. Users can keep important files safe and centralized in one place, and share with team members,…

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Salsify

Salsify is designed to enable suppliers to send their product content to retailers. The solution provides a central place to create, manage and publish product information - including product attributes, marketing copy, datasheets and other files.

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Cloudinary

Cloudinary is an image and video management tool enabling users to manage, optimize, and deliver images, videos and other media across every device and channel.

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Brandfolder

Brandfolder, from Smartsheet since the 2020 acquisition, supports brands' content and creative assets with adigital asset management software that helps organize, control, create, distribute and measure creative assets across hundreds of formats including 8K video, documents, images…

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Frontify

Frontify aims to simplify brand management with a platform that connects everything (and everyone) important to the growth of a brand. Offering plans for all company sizes, the vendor states Frontify is used by 4,000 brands globally. Frontify features: Cloud-based brand guidelines…

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EditShare

EditShare offers networked shared storage and workflow solutions for the production, post-production, new media, sports, and education markets, including on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions. Products include media optimized high-performance shared storage, archiving and backup software,…

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Xinet

North Plains Systems in Toronto now offers and supports Xinet, a digital asset management platform with an emphasis on collaboration and sharing. The California company Xinet, the platform's original developer, was acquired by North Plains Systems in 2012.

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MarcomCentral

MarcomCentral is a marketing & brand asset management platform developed by the company formerly known as PTI Marketing Technologies, now MarcomCentral. The company is supported by Ricoh since December 2014.

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Veeva Vault PromoMats

Veeva Vault PromoMats streamlines the creation, review, and distribution of compliant content at scale. PromoMats is a regulated content management application that supports the full lifecycle of promotional content. It enables content creation, review and approval, digital asset…

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Pimcore

The Pimcore Platform™ is an enterprise open-source software for managing any digital data and customer experiences across any channel or device. Pimcore is used to keep single, harmonized, up-to-date versions of any corporate master data, manage, consolidate, share and transform…

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Adobe Bridge

Adobe Bridge is a creative digital asset manager that lets you preview, organize, edit, and publish multiple creative assets (including Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects, and Dimension files) with thumbnails and rich previews. Edit metadata. Add keywords, labels,…

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Cloudimage

Cloudimage offers a way to optimize and accelerate images for the web.Cloudimage automates the transformation and optimization of images on the fly and accelerates their distribution via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Cloudimage helps web pages to become faster and lighter, to…

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Extensis Portfolio

Extensis headquartered in Portland, Oregon offers Portfolio, their digital asset management (DAM) platform.

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What is a Digital Asset Management Software?

Digital Asset Management (DAM) Software is, at a minimum, a repository for marketing assets. Typically this includes brand media, images, video, or any digital object that relates to the enterprise's brand and image. This software is also commonly referred to as Brand Asset Management.

Alternatively, this type of software might be described as brand management software. Its nearest cousin is enterprise asset management (EAM) software. However, with DAM systems, the emphasis is not only on storing assets but on aggregating, arranging, updating, editing, and deploying them. The overall purpose of a DAM is to strengthen the image of the company and its products via creative marketing and media.

Digital Asset Management Software Features

Most DAM platforms have features around the following areas of functionality:

Single Source of Truth

The DAM presents an up-to-date, synchronized, and highly searchable repository for marketing assets. This is core to the design of all DAM platforms. As enterprise assets proliferate the DAM should help keep the corporate librarian in control.

Intuitive and Navigable Portals and Catalogs with Access Control

Access to the repository is intuitive so that assets are discoverable. Access is controlled so that assets are safe. This is important because often creative is outsourced to third parties. Thus a DAM should be easy to navigate but difficult to violate with restrictions like one-time download, limited-access windows, and more.

Tagging, Metadata, and Categorization

DAMs should intelligently support the categorization of digital assets with various tools (e.g. facial recognition, tagging) that support rapid sorting and discovery of these visual assets. This speeds content retrieval, combination, and deployment workflow.

Search & Filter

A key part of the DAM platform’s organizational scheme is an intelligent search feature. Search filters take advantage of all that metadata.

Guidelines, Monitoring, and Governance

The DAM should present controls to govern how brand assets are used, ensuring compliance with corporate and brand standards.

Creative Workflow

Digital Asset Management platforms should support the collaboration, editing, and approval process with workflow controls and dashboard interfaces. This is very similar to project management suites but for the kinds of assets (e.g. video, images) typically edited and approved by a DAM.

Integrations vs. Suites: The DAM/WCM Connection

Digital Asset Management Platforms are also creative and deployment/distribution platforms, preparing media to go live. For this reason, they must integrate with the web content management systems (WCMS) used by the enterprise. Or sometimes vendors offer suite products with integrated DAM and WCMS.

Digital Asset Management Software Comparison

Before deciding to invest in a DAM solution, consider the following key factors:

  1. DAM vs. CMS: While both types of software store and manage marketing content, they have very different use cases. DAMs help store, manage, and distribute marketing assets throughout the internal organization. CMS platforms, on the other hand, are designed to enable users to create, edit, and deploy content across external channels. Traditional CMS platforms are typically tied to a website front-end, but headless CMS platforms can push out content across all types of channels and endpoints using content APIs. Before making a purchase, ask yourself if you’re looking for a solution that will manage internal vs. external marketing content.
  2. Integrations: Do the digital asset management platforms you’re considering integrate with the other technology your team is already using? Looking outside your own team, are there other stakeholders that are using other platforms that would benefit from being integrated with the DAM? Having the right integrations in place will help ensure your DAM can act as the true single source of truth for digital asset management and storage. Make sure the DAM you end up purchasing can integrate with the other tools your team and business are using.
  3. Pricing model: Different DAM vendors may have slightly different pricing models, depending on the number of users, the amount of storage required, and the breadth of features included. Some platforms may have what looks like a very reasonable pricing model, only to have skyrocketing costs once your use of the system expands as your business scales. Make sure you fully understand the long-term pricing model of the platform before making a purchase decision.

Pricing Information

DAM pricing is complex because of the number of factors to be taken into consideration. As with all business software, it’s extremely important to have a good sense of the organization’s needs as a starting point. It’s also important to understand the quantity and type of digital assets to be managed, the media workflows, and the people who will be administering and using the system. An enterprise-level SaaS DAM can cost upwards of $30,000 per year. SMB versions are significantly cheaper.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does digital asset management software do?

Digital asset management (DAM) software helps businesses manage the storage, versioning, centralization, retrieval, and distribution of marketing assets throughout the company and with approved external parties. DAM software can store several file types, including documents, pictures, audio, and video assets.

What are the benefits of using digital asset management (DAM) software?

One of the biggest benefits of using a DAM is that it acts as a central hub that stores all marketing assets and collateral. This helps prevent individual files from being lost within siloed, team-specific software systems. It also prevents there from being multiple, slightly different versions of the same asset floating around in the company’s storage drives. Users can also manage things like asset tagging and taxonomy and searching for specific assets within the digital asset management system.

What is the best digital asset management software?

According to end-user feedback on TrustRadius, the top-rated digital asset management (DAM) products are:

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