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Canto

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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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9 out of 10
March 09, 2024
Incentivized
We use Canto as a master photo library within the organization and share photos internally and with contractors.
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Encanto Canto.

8 out of 10
March 05, 2024
Incentivized
We use Canto for all photo and video storage and graphic assets such as logos. I create graphics in Adobe products daily, and the Canto …
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Canto Review

9 out of 10
February 22, 2024
Incentivized
We are still getting out Canto up and running, but I can see so many opportunities on how it will help us organize images, assets and …
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  • Downloading assets (24)
    8.2
    82%
  • Asset sharing (24)
    7.9
    79%
  • Uploading assets (23)
    7.5
    75%
  • Asset search (24)
    7.4
    74%

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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.

6.6
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DAM Features

Features commonly found in dedicated Digital Asset Management (DAM) Software.

7.1
Avg 8.1
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Product Details

What is Canto?

A digital asset management (DAM), Canto allows organizations to centralize, organize, and share assets. With AI Visual Search, natural language can be used to instantly discover content without relying solely on metadata. Canto aims to empower brands to extract more value out of their content, maximize ROI, and accelerate time to market.

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

Screenshot of the Canto AI Visual Search to discover digital assets faster.Screenshot of asset discovery with AI Visual Search, using natural language to instantly find the most relevant images and videos in Canto.Screenshot of Canto's integrations, including Adobe Creative Suite, Hootsuite, Canva, and monday.com.Screenshot of sharing tools to push on-brand digital content to teams, channels, and platforms while maintaining control with access controls and digital rights management.Screenshot of the organized, searchable content hub, where everyone can always find what they need, when they need it.

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Canto Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS
Supported LanguagesCzech, German, English, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Chinese (Simplified), Russian

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Acquia DAM (Widen), Brandfolder, and Bynder are common alternatives for Canto.

Reviewers rate Downloading assets highest, with a score of 8.2.

The most common users of Canto are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Charlotte Reyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently we are using Canto at the department level, but we plan to use it company-wide in the near future. We house all company assets, from logos and graphic files to photos and video. Our old file structure grew quickly over time, and it became very difficult to pinpoint an asset.
  • Uploading assets
  • Organizing assets
  • Sharing assets
  • I haven't come across any areas that need improvement
If you have a large number of assets, with people requesting detailed things, it's great to be able to send them to do their own search. It's a huge time-saver for our designers and social media folks. It's also going to come in very handy with regard to historical items. Our company has been in business since 1894, and it will be a great way to store, and share, parts of our history.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Communications team uses Canto to store and organize our photos for different campaigns. We share photos across our organization and with folks outside our organization regularly. Canto helps us to quickly find photos using the search function, allows us to have people outside our team upload and download photos, and helps us only share what we need to.
  • Organization
  • Sharing
  • Search
  • Settings can be a little confusing
  • It'd be nice to have one place where folks outside our org can collaborate / upload + download
Canto is well suited for situations where I need to collect photos from several people outside my organization - I can create an upload link. It's also well suited for sharing a collection of photos with people outside my team or outside my organization. It's less appropriate when I need to collaborate with a large group outside my organization in a way that folks need to share photos (upload) and download photos from the same space.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
A great repository of all our marketing material! We use it to house all our media content.
  • Searchable content
  • Tools for editing
  • Viewable content
  • I’d like to have my default view
Very well suited to multimedia content.
Lorenza Carrillo Villaseñor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto is a hub to save all your media assets. Our creative team used it for complicated campaigns and it really helped to have a place where to have everything in a visual way.

Pros: high capacity, great display, easy to share with clients. A lot of features!!!

Cons: there is so many tags and features you can use it may become hard to navigate. Portals are good but can be more customizable.

Overall, great software, if you need a data asset management system I strongly recommend this software, however be sure that you use most of the features, otherwise the price point is high!
  • Organize assets in an easy way.
  • Easy to share files with clients and outside stakeholders.
  • Great features, including Tags and filters.
  • It would be great if portals could be more customizable.
  • It would be great if there were better (cheaper) ways to display brand identities.
  • We decided to cancel our contract, downloading assets was time consuming and complicated. Shut down file perhaps? FTP resources?
Canto is great as a data asset management system, however be sure that you will use most of the features- FROM THE START!

Training on the software for all users is a must!
May 22, 2021

Another DAM?

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We are using the system to consolidate all of our assets in one central location. Our universe is hard to manage as it is cross functional and cross divisional.
  • 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
Best for multiple users with decentralized access
Good for restriction of access by user type
Good for intelligent grouping of assets
Superior tagging and metadata functionality
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
My team uses Canto as a photo library platform. The entire marketing team uses this flatform together and the benefit is we can store a high volume of images and it's easy to search for everyone.
  • Easy to search
  • Good quality image resolution
  • Improve search terms
It's a useful platform to store high-resolution images if you have many team members. It's easy to share, upload, edit, etc.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto is being used across our whole company to maintain and organise our image and video library. It is used on a day to day basis enable users across the company to access images and videos to maintain, design and update our digital platforms in order to help support our products.
  • We have a number of brands that sit under the Serenity umbrella so the album and folder structure really helps with our workflow.
  • As a designer the Adobe connector was a major reason for us going with Canto, being able to have that connectivity between Canto and Indesign has saved us so much time.
  • Canto is easy to use and very intuitive.
  • With our previous Asset Management system it would create a unique sequential number for each new file that was uploaded this is something that we have not been able to do with Canto. This would have been beneficial to us as it would have helped with our workflow.
  • Would have helped if it was easier/faster to migrate large datasets
Canto is great solution for organisations with a large image or video library. It a great product if you have to manages multiple brands like we do. If you use Adobe products the connective between them and Canto is a real plus it has saved us so much time. The price compared to most of the competition was a big part of why we moved to Canto.
May 22, 2021

Canto is awesome!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto is used for photo storage and sharing and is managed by the College's central marketing team. It's mainly used by my department, but we have a public-facing portal which we can send to other departments who are looking for photos for their own uses. Canto makes it really easy to share photos. Within the Marketing department, we frequently need photos for print materials such as brochures, for the website, and numerous other uses, so we rely on this platform heavily.
  • Stores a high volume of high-res photos
  • Makes organization easy
  • Makes it simple to send and share photos with other departments
  • Ability to add information and notes to photo files
I would definitely recommend Canto for any organization or department which needs to be able to store a large number of high-res photos. Canto makes it really easy to download, share, and organize photos. I really have no complaints; it has been a great platform and it makes everyone's lives easier in the Marketing department!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Canto was extremely easy to implement into our business. Previously, we stored all of our photos/videos/files on the shared drive, external hard drives and servers. Canto has allowed us to ensure all employees who require access to digital assets have access to them with different permission groups. We really like the convenient options for sharing files with external stakeholders, especially the sharing link. It eliminates the need to upload files to dropbox and worry about storage issues.
  • It is clearly structured and all functions are easy to spot and use.
  • Good ability to search through metadata and quickly and easily find an asset
  • The platform can be a little faster when creating folders/albums
I priced a number of different applications including Canto. After doing a valuations on a product they narrowed it down to three, Canto being one of the three. After reviewing the other products and Canto I found that Canto provided for more capabilities it is substantially reduced cost. Canto has helped us to improve our ability to deliver contents to a very large Group of individuals within the university. This product has helped us to broaden our ability to share a message in a very powerful way.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
<br>We are using Canto to implement all our Photo gallery and documents for mainly ourselves and our customers.<br>Until now we have never had so good structure like we have now regarding finding and categorize pictures and documents. <br>It have never been that easy for us to find specific pictures that we have. <br><br>It is has the same logic as Instagram and Pinterest.<br>
  • Logic searching
  • Categorizing pictures and documents very well
  • Easy to use
  • Some time you have to update F5 to much
Logic searching like in the B2C segments (Instagram and Pinterest)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a global company currently operating in 50+ countries. All of our content and marketing materials are created in our Mexico City office. We needed a tool to centralize all assets, and make them available to our staff all around the world, working for different areas within the company, and working in different time zones.
  • User friendly
  • Lots of useful integrations with other platforms
  • Tailored pricing scheme for our specific needs
  • Some additional integrations, for example, with online design tools would be useful.
Canto is a very useful digital asset management platform. From our experience, is a great tool for large global companies, with a need of centralizing assets and make them accessible in an organized, and user-friendly way. Lots of options for customization, to organize and tailor the portal for very specific needs.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use [Cumulus] to manage digital art, some is scanned images of actual drawn and painted art, and most is digital art created by our design team. The entire company uses it with different levels of access to utilize approved artwork for different departments and needs. It allows for versioning of different stages of the same piece of art, as well as holding artwork currently being developed to prevent duplication when multiple people may want to work on the same file.
  • Internal backup system that keeps 7 days of configurations and files
  • Provides multiple webpages for searching, viewing, downloading, and sharing.
  • Robust user roles, and user access levels
  • Cumulus can be extremely granule or just managed with mostly basic out of the box features
  • Easier reporting
  • It should prevent drag and drop in the tree that would orphan linked files
  • More ways to search
It feels like Digital art is exactly what it is designed for, it should be used as a versioning tool allowing someone to basically check out artwork, make changes, check it back in preventing anyone else from doing the same.
It is not a general file share program, it is far too robust to limit it to just file sharing.
Joshua Stevenson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto has helped us create a platform to catalogue our vast library of product images on our recently developed new website in a way that customers can use helpful keyword searches and filters to find examples of our work to inspire them. It addresses the issue of us having too many digital assets without the means to easily pick out what is relevant in different situations.
  • Allows seamless integration with our Wordpress based website
  • Is easy to customise areas of it even for people not too tech savvy
  • Allows us to automatically watermark our images so people have to request them - leading to potential follow-ups
  • Filters that will lead to no image results will still be shown, potentially adding confusion
  • Non-watermarked images can technically be accquired through page inspection
Canto is well suited to companies with a vast digital asset bank as it lets users use multiple filters to really drill down to exactly what they want. It would be less appropriate for smaller businesses with only a handful of images that could easily be dealt with manually since a lot of filter selections would lead to no results.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Canto to house our image library and files. We will also use it to give people in different departments easy access to our brand standards and logos. Outside vendors will be able to search for anything they might need directly from Canto too. As a designer, Canto helps me to quickly find appropriate files for any project I am working on.
  • The Canto team was very supportive during the onboarding process.
  • Endless possibilities with tagging images.
  • Ability to use directly in Adobe products with plug-in.
  • No uncheck all feature.
  • Issues with uploading large batch of files.
Canto is great for organizations with a large image library. You are able to tag images appropriately to be able to find them easily in the future. It also works well if your organization manages multiple brands, you can easily filter through exactly what you need for each brand. The price compared to most of the competition was a big part of why we moved forward with Canto.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto is used across the organization to share and store creative assets—photographs, videos. We work across many different countries and territories and it allows all our teams to share and upload content wherever they are in the world.
  • Manual tagging of images.
  • Smart tags.
  • Easy uploading and storing of images.
  • Portal system is very hard to understand.
  • Playback of video files within canto does not always work that well.
Excellent if you have multiple users across the world who need to share content with each other and ensure it is safely stored. Where some countries have less stable internet connection Canto does not perform as well in allowing you to leave files uploading in comparison to other platforms such as Dropbox. It's oftentimes out if the upload is taking a long time, meaning you have to start again.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto throughout the company to share assets internally and also externally to our partners and clients. It allows for us to have a better solution than a traditional server to house our assets. It improves productivity and efficiency while providing a visual tool. It is used daily by the marketing department and often used in client meetings to show our previous work.
  • Organization
  • Design Capabilities
  • Portals
  • Slow upload speeds on videos
Canto is well suited for companies that have traditional asset storage currently and are looking to switched to a more optimized cloud based storage!
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto is being used across our whole company to maintain organization of all of Interfor's photos and videos. This platforms allows us to create albums and branches of content to keep everything organized and easily accessible by users. We are also using the platform to manage access to this content in order to ensure security of all the content.
  • Canto provides thorough training for the integration phases of the platform.
  • Canto offers a wide range of customizable fields for the content, including folder display photos and different personalized borders and colour features.
  • Canto allows the photos to have easily searchable options by having functions like tags and keywords.
  • Canto's integration phase could be a little more concise since some of the steps are pretty straight-forward.
  • There are some issues with integrating the SSO option for Canto.
Canto is well suited for organizing a large library of photos and videos. The folder tree options allow things to stay organized.
Melony Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto for campus-wide digital asset management. Our Marketing and PR team manages the application, which helps us distribute photos and videos to our campus departments and news media. We find it especially helpful for organizing and distributing athletics-related content. It is also helpful for organizing photos and videos for easy retrieval.
  • I really like the organization features that allow us to search and quickly find what we need.
  • The facial recognition feature is a great help. We keep folders for individuals that are often featured in promotional materials.
  • We use the brand style guide to help organize our visual brand assets and share them with campus collaborators. It is very helpful for storing and protecting the complex collection of assets that are common for higher education institutions.
  • We have experienced some laggy response times within the app on occasion. The Canto team is very responsive to concerns though.
Overall, we are very pleased with our decision to implement Canto for our digital asset management. It has increased our productivity and gives us an edge when responding to photo and video requests from media. It also helps us to keep our visual content fresh and organized. I would definitely recommend Canto to anyone looking to protect and organize photos and videos.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is being used across the organization and is being maintained by marketing. It addresses file management and storage problems as well as expanding access to other staff with permissions.
  • The ability to search for files.
  • Tagging files and creating file structures.
  • Sharing with different people from the organization and using permissions.
  • Inability to work off of Canto with Adobe files.
  • Mobile integration and mobile app.
  • Auto generating tags for files based on file name or content.
Canto is well suited for organizations where file management is needed and there is a need for sharing files on a platform that is neither email nor a project management tool. It is less appropriate for complex project management.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Canto helped our internal creative & marketing teams tremendously with organizing all of our photos and videos. Images are now easily searchable, the user interface is easy to use, and it allows you to easily share images outside of your organization as well. Load time is really fast as well which really helps when you're working remotely - no more having to wait for the server to load! This tool is so worth it and has saved our team so much time and has made us much more efficient when trying to find photos in our database!
  • Easy to use
  • Amazing search abilities
  • Easy to share with outside users
  • Quick load time
  • Setup can be cumbersome
  • Settings are sometimes hard to find
  • Can't preview PDFs
Canto is great for marketing & creative teams where they often share photos. It's great for franchises as well where you want control over your photos but can also share with franchisees and allow them to access photos easily. It's very easy to use for both new users and experienced users. The setup of getting the folders & tagging system in place is the hardest part, but once you get that figured out, it's easy to mass upload photos and start organizing. It has saved our team tons of time now that we can easily search our photos.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We installed Canto for use across our entire organization. It helps with version control for assets and files as well as maintaining current accurate standards.
  • Easy to use for multiple roles
  • Intuitive admin for file management
  • Powerful search functionality
  • Onboarding could be more robust
  • User level interface is spartan
Canto is a great solution for those looking to wrangle important brand assets and creative media across an organization.
Jen Pascoe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Canto predominantly to help share marketing assets and resources with our retail partners all across the world. Other platforms made this difficult but the features that Canto supports means that our partners can access, choose and download digital assets quickly and easily. Of course, we use it to share assets internally too, but it's the external access that really makes Canto stand out for us.
  • Easy to browse & download images
  • Visual database with thumbnail preview
  • Portals to share select assets externally
  • Initial set up took longer than expected, not as intuitive as we hoped
  • Too many options
  • Folder / album structure feels a little complicated. Could be an easier UX
We use Canto to share assets externally to both registered and guest users, and would recommend it for this purpose.
Tyler Kraft | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
With 4 team members across two regions, it was nearly impossible to keep our content organized and easily accessible. We would actually ship hard drives back and forth to pass content. With Canto, it’s like we’re working in the same building. Everything we shoot or create is at our fingertips, no matter who created it or where they are.
  • Seamless access to content from anywhere at anytime.
  • An incredible team of intelligent invested employees to get you up and running in no time.
  • Beautiful interface.
  • Incredibly fast load times.
  • So many features included at the base price.
  • More built-in integrations with Salesforce, MKT cloud (social studio), and Outlook.
As I said before, it’s very difficult to pass content across the country. We have a videographer in FL and content creators in the MW. They need to be able to seamlessly pass content to each other without wasting valuable time waiting for downloading and uploading, Canto offers that solution. No more waiting, no more headaches. Canto gets the job done and done right.
May 11, 2021

DAM Canto!

Herman “Aina” Kanahele | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
Canto has been implemented across our whole company as a digital asset manager. On a day to day usage the company uses it [to] reference and communicate with our team in the field. The utilization of these assets that we store helps our sales teams as well as our retailers with making creative asset pushes for there company of our product.
  • Structure and ease of use.
  • Open communication with account manager.
  • Some redundant features
I think [Canto] is a great service as we are using it daily. It has definitely helped increase our graphic design and sales departments communicate better with each other getting them the right assets all the time for each of their stores.
May 11, 2021

Canto all the way!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We just began working with Canto. This program will be used across our global offices. So far we are highly impressed with the program and the support we have received. The Canto support team is outstanding and has been there for us every step of the way. We are extremely happy with the training for this program and it has been a smooth transition. We look forward to continuing our work with Canto.
  • Canto is a very thorough program, the way you can tag and categorize your assets is very well put together.
  • Facial recognition is by far the greatest idea and Canto does this well. It is a super helpful feature for us.
  • We love the portal aspect of this platform. It is an extremely helpful tool.
  • The option to make a single file downloadable or not. We have some highly sensitive files and some we don't want people to be able to download but be able to look at. So it would be nice if we could make a single file not downloadable. They do have other options like terms of use or watermarks but it [would] be nice if that was a feature. You could do this but only in bulk, so you'd have to make all files not downloadable.
  • Their style guide option - being able to use a single image for the style guide instead of the whole folder or file.
  • I think the different language option could be built out a little better.
We would definitely recommend Canto to a colleague. If your asset library is growing at a rapid pace and becoming unmanageable, th[e]n you need Canto. The way the program is built [...] makes it super easy to organize and have governance over. This is a must-have program if you are suffering [from] content control and organization.
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