User friendly, and very quick
Canto is being used by almost everyone at my company. We create thousands of ads every year, but before this, had no clear way to find …
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What is Canto?
Flight is a cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) from Canto headquartered in San Francisco, a somewhat lighter and low cost alternative to their flagship DAM, Cumulus.
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What is Canto?
Canto enables users to collect, manage and share digital content from anywhere. A digital asset management solution, Canto helps brands in all industries take control of their content libraries and get more out of their digital assets.
A CENTRAL LOCATION FOR DIGITAL ASSETS No more digging through folders and hunting down files. Canto is a hub for digital content – including photos, videos, collateral, and other digital assets are where they are needed.
FIND FILES IN SECONDS Users can organize content in any way desired, and users don’t need to dig through folders to find what is needed. With advanced features like smart tags and facial recognition, the entire library is fully searchable.
COLLECT AND SHARE DIGITAL CONTENT WITH ANYONE Manage the flow of assets in and out of an organization’s library. Upload links make it easier to add content to a library, and unlimited sharing portals allow users to deliver polished, curated collections to any audience.
COLLABORATE To share assets with other teams, external partners and collaborators anywhere in the world. Flexible permissions ensure everyone can access everything they need – and nothing they shouldn’t.
MANAGE A BRAND Approval features keep users in control of what content goes out into the world. Avoid embarrassing mix-ups with version controls and expiration dates, and mitigate business risks with digital rights management tools.
A TOOL THAT FITS ITS TEAM With its configuration options, Canto adapts to how a team works. Plus, out-of-the box integrations snap into the tools a team already uses – including Slack, Microsoft, Adobe Creative Cloud, and others.
FULL VIDEO COMPATIBILITY Canto has a whole host of features designed just for video – including full video previews, timestamped annotations and smart tags, 360° video support, and trimming features to extract just the excerpts needed.
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- 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
- YouTube
- TYPO3
- Sitecore
- Mac OS
- Chrome
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Canto Technical Details
| Deployment Types | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Languages | Czech, German, English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese (Simplified), Russian |
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What is Canto?
Flight is a cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) from Canto headquartered in San Francisco, a somewhat lighter and low cost alternative to their flagship DAM, Cumulus.
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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.2.
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The most common users of Canto are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees) and the Marketing & Advertising industry.
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May 28, 2022
User friendly, and very quick
Canto is being used by almost everyone at my company. We create thousands of ads every year, but before this, had no clear way to find past projects, there wasn't an organization tool. We are using Canto as a repository for our best in class work, and this can be helpful to everyone. We have the sales team using it to find great examples of past work with specific verticals/ad placements/brands, etc. The creative team is using it to find awesome examples of specific creative techniques to elevate their work.
So in short, we're using Canto as a place to house the best of every category of work we do, so that anyone on the team can find what they need!
So in short, we're using Canto as a place to house the best of every category of work we do, so that anyone on the team can find what they need!
- Share links. Now, we can share video asset examples to our clients without them having to download it! They can click on the link, and watch it immediately in a browser, major time saver. Also, for security reasons, it's great that we can set an expiration date to those links, and toggle download permissions.
- Filter bar. I love how I can quickly filter the assets I currently have in my window. I might use the search function, but realize I missed one part of the search. No worries, I can quickly filter those results!
- Portals and Workspaces. I love how I can control what users can see in their portals, and that I can use a Workspace to organize assets before making them visible on the general Canto library. This allows me the time to organize assets on Canto, without risking them falling into other's hands before they're ready.
- I don't love the share features for My Collections. Right now, to share a collection externally, you have to go to the collection, select all the assets, and create a share link. There should be a share link creation associated with the collection itself.
- Moving and creating folders and albums is slow. Anytime I create or move one, the system will take quite a few seconds of loading time. Also, after it's done, the entire folder structure will collapse to its smallest state, and I usually want it to remain the way it was.
- Tagging. This isn't a unique issue with Canto, but I wish tagging was less manual, wish I could create shortcuts for tags. I have to make repetitive tags as I want to make sure the right results come up for a user, no matter how they search for it. For example, I'll manually tag an asset "e-comm" "ecomm" e-commerce" and "ecommerce."
May 27, 2022
We Love Canto
It's used for the legal department only. We use it to share all the information with our teammates so they can easily access, download, and work in an easier way than go to the physical documentation. And, due to the pandemic working from home, Canto solves all the documentation needs for everyone.
- Organization on the files
- Easy access for download and share
- Security regarding the fact you can share your documents with the people you want.
- Easy app
- The file migration; it can't be done one time.
May 27, 2022
Canto Checked All Of The Boxes
We use Canto to store all of our digital assets, from stock photography, product labels, video, marketing assets like brochures, and even headshots! Our entire company uses Canto in various ways depending on their department. Before Canto, we were storing our files on various hard drives - and each time we needed something we'd play everyone's fun game of "who has it", "who has the latest version", and "where are the attachments to this InDesign file". Now, everyone has the ability to log in and quickly keyword search for exactly what they are looking for.
- Visually show you the file in a thumbnail without having to click on it
- Keyword search to find files relating to exactly what you're looking for
- Easy user upload and download
- Ability to share assets with outside members
- The servers get slow after a single use experience of uploading items
- The servers can't handle large uploads (for instance like 1 GB) very well
- It would be nice to not have to pay for more than 5 users
May 27, 2022
Go Canto
We are currently using Canto as our storage solution for the Comms and creative team and as an image library for the whole organisation.
Pros - Easy access to photo's and other files
Cons - Would like to see a desktop version similar to Dropbox and OneDrive so you can organise files without being on the web
- Easy for all team members to access
- tagging
- easy to use
- Desk top folder like OneDrive or dropbox
- Option to have more than one library
- N/A
May 27, 2022
Amazing for Organization and Time Saving!
In our organization Canto is primarily operated by our Marketing department as a way to store, categorize and share assets such as photographs and graphic files. We also provide access to other departments who need to regularly search for and use these media items as a way to speed up the process of them finding what they need.
For us it helps us sort through thousands of photographs quickly and easily through tagging, keywording and facial recognition, saving a large amount of time for people working on projects needing those assets. It also provides us with a quick and effective method of sharing these files, even with those outside of our organization.
For us it helps us sort through thousands of photographs quickly and easily through tagging, keywording and facial recognition, saving a large amount of time for people working on projects needing those assets. It also provides us with a quick and effective method of sharing these files, even with those outside of our organization.
- Categorizating.
- Sharing content.
- Facial recognition.
- Keywording.
- Search.
- Quick use of editable files.
- Slow upload at times.
May 26, 2022
Choosing Canto is a great decision.
We are excited to use Canto for the management of our digital marketing assets for ease of searchability and consistency for our teams. It is currently being used by our Marketing teams, but we anticipate it being used by many more departments. It is very hard to search for the right stock photo within a folder, and it is impossible to keep up with the licensing. Canto solves both issues.
- 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.
May 26, 2022
Canto delivers on its promise.
We use Canto across the entire organisation both for internally and for external 3rd parties to access. It solves our need to store, catalogue and share assets securely and quickly.
- Easy upload through separate app - Canto Connect
- Intuitive and fast access to sharing assets
- Smart tagging of assets
- Public facing portals
- Custom URL for Portals
- More freedom to custom design the portal e.g. template selection
- More integrations
May 26, 2022
Easy, Custom, and Efficient!
Canto has helped us to share assets across the team in an organised fashion. I love the ability to tag and sort the images as we see fit and use the custom tagging features to ensure the team can search by whatever is easiest for them. You can easily find all assets for a particular product by searching for that product name, or all content featuring the same model. It's also been helpful in the post-production process for shoots, whereby we can have conversations with the photographer via Canto comments. This has saved a lot of back and forth! The team loves it and it's made our lives a lot easier since we've been using it.
- Custom tagging
- Commenting
- Content categorisation
- Reduced cost for additional admin/contributor profiles would be nice. As our team grew, we needed more but the cost feels a bit high for more people to be added with this access level.
May 25, 2022
Canto Good System
We used Canto to house all of the creative assets that we use in our marketing efforts and product photography website catalog. We also collect all of our UGC here as well. We use portals to allow the press to connect with us.
- Portals for external Press or Outside Agencies
- Easily relate images which we use for UGC and approvals
- Easy to use
- Price can get expensive after a while
- Automatic tagging features are lacking compared to others.
- More Users per account
May 25, 2022
Great for agencies!
We purchased Canto as a solution for our massive library of images and graphic design files. It's being used by everyone internally and will be used by our clients once we set those portals up so they have better immediate access to image files. Our pre-existing database was messy and difficult to work through, where Canto allows us to keep everything in one spot with amazing search functionality for ease of use.
- 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 :).
May 25, 2022
Canto is DAM good
Canto is used to create access to our band assets and photo library to employees and agencies we work with
- Great interface
- Simple to use but powerful features
- Easy to set up and manage
- Great support
- Reliable and fast despite a large amount of content uploaded
- Includes support for video
- There is currently no way of integrating InDesign plugin through our CISCO firewall
- Some plugins are expensive although very useful
May 25, 2022
Overall, would recommend
The full company uses Canto, although it was chosen with Mar/Comms and BizDev needs in mind.
- Best search functionality out of all other DAM systems I looked into.
- Frequent product updates.
- Good customer service.
- Slow load times (especially for video).
- Only admins ("power users") can upload assets into the main library. Canto limits the number of admin seats you can have.
- Initial training was not very helpful.
- Online Training
No
Canto is used as the enterprise-wide DAM system. It's helping store, organize, and distribute content across channels at all stages of production. It helps reduce duplicate efforts across teams, which saves time and resource costs. It also ensures proper governance, digital rights management, and allows for controlled sharing with external partners.
- Asset management and distribution.
- Detailed permissions structures.
- Portals and style guides.
- More direct integrations with programs like Sketch and Bridge would be great! (already has some other Adobe product integrations).
- More control over the Smart Tags feature would be really useful - to be able to train it a certain way (using brand terms, for example) or teach it not to tag certain things would help us customize the automatic tags it adds—removing some of these is a manual process (even with confidence set at 95).
- Transparency for the price tiers for adding more power users and more storage space would be helpful in our planning.
May 24, 2022
So far, great tool!
Canto is being used as our photography library. It's being used across the marketing department to all other departments. It addresses the ease of seeing what our best photography is for our team and outside teams. This is crucial and a missing component to what we previously had in place.
- Searchability
- Flexibility
- Plug-in capability for Adobe products--our team is just starting to test out using this and off the bat it seems like there are some issues with the images downloading to the machine rather than truly being cloud-based links
- Sometimes a bit overwhelming with all the features; its taking our team a while to get the product up and running
- Filtering is not as intuitive as I had thought
- Takes a long time to build up metadata for the filtering
May 16, 2022
Good Standard Digital Asset Management Tool
Canto is used as a digital asset tool. Internally, we create content for different departments to share with external vendor partners and retailers. Having so many assets and so many different specifications for each partner makes it challenging to store on a traditional shared drive, but Canto has allowed us to organize and tailor assets by channel.
- Asset upload
- Asset organization
- Search functionality enables us to find assets easily
- The crop and resize feature is sometimes challenging to use for non designers.
We use Canto to organize all of our assets. We run a lot of different campaigns, so it's great to have everything really organized in Canto, and all staff can access it easily. The images can be tagged which helps to search for any type of photo we may need.
- tagging photos
- portals
- folders
- sharing links
- Link with desktop folders, so that we don't have to download assets all the time
- reporting
We use Canto as a digital asset management tool to keep our venue assets organized, as we run 350 event venues worldwide, each with its own images, logos, etc. Canto allows us to give access to the venues, vendors, and to consultants to upload their content in a safe organized space. We can give all users the level of access they need to get their files, without seeing things they don't need. Overall, it's been a big help to the marketing department.
- Permission/Access
- File Structure Customization
- Reports on Use
- Would like more levels of access.
- Would like to be able to copy file structures.
- Would like A-Z sorting to be default.
May 14, 2022
Canto is worth the investment!
Canto has been a great asset to my company! Before Canto, the Marketing team would waste hours filtering and sorting through all of our media to find one specific photo or video. Now, we can easily organize and search for what we need. It takes a matter of seconds! The facial recognition feature is also an excellent tool that we utilize every week.
- Facial recognition
- Onboarding and implementation process
- Customizable
- My only issue with Canto is not having an account manager. I honestly have no idea who to reach out to if I have questions or concerns.
May 14, 2022
Excellent Product
We use Canto as a central system for all our property photos and logos. We also use it for brand logos, stock photos, lifestyle photos, and videos. I would say that Canto allows up to have a place to go to access materials required by all departments of the hotel - everyone has access to the same information. My personal use includes downloading content as well as uploading content to our corporate office for approval and addition to the galleries.
- Layout of information is easy to read - and easy to find what you are looking for.
- Upload and download rate is quick with no delays.
- System runs smoothly.
- Allowing access to more than one hotel property under an email address.
- Better training for those who are system administrators.
- Layout could be a bit better.
May 14, 2022
Canto is helpful
We use Canto to organize our assets including photos, videos, style guides etc. Our favorite feature is the ease of sharing. We no longer have to use Dropbox etc to share large files that cannot be attached to emails. We can also create specific branded portals to share with clients and other teams.
- Style guides for press kits
- Portals to share with clients
- Asset organization and management
- Difficult to navigate
- Learning curve
- Simpler settings
Our company loves using Canto because it gives easy access to searching any image in our database. We used to use Dropbox but that didn't give us the option to tag our products by names and patterns. Using Canto we can tag each image with customized tags that allow users to easily search for what they need.
- Canto Adobe Connector, allows our graphic designers to search for images within the Adobe programs and simply drag and drop to their artwork.
- Bulk tagging is very helpful.
- Portals are amazing for sharing with our wholesale customers' images for each season that we create.
- Customized fonts for the portal is not available.
- Different layouts for the portal would be great.
May 14, 2022
Great way of categorizing photos
It helps us with storing our current digital archive and photographs for the school, which can be accessed by anyone with a login. We appreciate that there are tools that make the process of searching for a photo easier, for example by searching by date, category, or hashtags. We have not found another system that makes this as easy a process.
- Categorizing
- Tagging
- Be able to use it for digitised books and publications too.
The Inter-American Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency that promotes community-led development in Latin America and the Caribbean. We use photos and videos in our blogs and social media, in reports to Congress, and in our own communications products such as our annual report. At the IAF, we use Canto to compile, store, access, and share photos for our agency. We were looking for a system that could accommodate all of our photos, ideally in cloud-based storage that would be accessible from anywhere. It was very important to us to be able to attach metadata, including keywords, tags, descriptions, and custom fields, to each photo. It was also essential to us to be able to search by country, by grantee, by individual picture, and by topic area. We may need to find a photo of an artisanal fishery project, or of women in sustainable agriculture, or of a specific grantee from Honduras, and we needed a system that would make it easy to do that. Nice-to-haves included having a way for contractors, photographers, or foundation representatives to upload photos and videos, as well as having a way to share specific sets of photos with external people without having to share our entire photo catalog with them.
- Creation of custom fields with drop-down menus to facilitate adding key metadata.
- Use of upload links to allow collaborators to upload and tag photos themselves.
- Effective, intuitive search and filter functions.
- Use of portals to easily share photos and style guides with external collaborators.
- It would be great if everyone at our organization could be automatically enrolled by email address (@iaf.gov). We've been having to invite them to register themselves by hand.
May 14, 2022
Would recommend
Canto's ability to create a media site that can be broken down into individual portals depending on user type is a great help for managing huge quantities of files. Simple build tagging systems take out a lot of the need to guide users on how to use the system. The fact it can host PDFs, images, videos, and more assets is also a great help.
- Auto AI tagging
- Customisable portals
- Storage space
- Simple to use backend
- Auto AI is a bit hit and miss
- Managing users could be easier - i.e. bulk editing
Canto was purchased in 2019 because we were stuck in legacy or internal systems that did not benefit the company as a whole. We needed a way to share information across the company as well as have a repository of information that could be accessed, updated, removed, and added at any time. Canto was able to check all those boxes.
- Repository of information
- Access items quickly
- Easy to find and sort on items.
- Access the platform with a simple link.
- Managing and uploading new content was simple.
- Sometimes it can be tough to find items via search.
- At times, items would not upload.
- Thumbnails were too small to see the items.