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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 |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Languages | Czech, German, English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese (Simplified), Russian |
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User friendly, and very quick
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."
We Love Canto
- 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.
Canto Checked All Of The Boxes
- 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
Go Canto
- 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
Amazing for Organization and Time Saving!
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.
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.
Canto delivers on its promise.
- 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
Easy, Custom, and Efficient!
- 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.
Canto Good System
- 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
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 DAM good
- 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
Overall, would recommend
- 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
- 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.
So far, great tool!
- 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
Good Standard Digital Asset Management Tool
- 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.
- tagging photos
- portals
- folders
- sharing links
- Link with desktop folders, so that we don't have to download assets all the time
- reporting
- 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.
Canto is worth the investment!
- 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.
Excellent Product
- 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.
Canto is helpful
- Style guides for press kits
- Portals to share with clients
- Asset organization and management
- Difficult to navigate
- Learning curve
- Simpler settings
- 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.
Great way of categorizing photos
- Categorizing
- Tagging
- Be able to use it for digitised books and publications too.
- 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.
Would recommend
- 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
- 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.