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.
- 8.1Asset 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
- Tech Details
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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
- 9.1Likelihood to Renew18 ratings
- 6.4Availability1 rating
- 6.4Performance1 rating
- 8.4Usability95 ratings
- 6.5Support Rating157 ratings
- 8.4Online Training2 ratings
- 8.4Implementation 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
(76-100 of 253)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
- It reads data extremely well and the auto tags are brilliant.
- Ease of access for end user makes this solution work far better than the previous one.
- Makes people feel that things are in the right place so that no time is wasted looking for them.
- It would be great if an improvement was made to read foreign documents and text from files.
How Canto has changed our processes!
- Stores digital assets in a system where you can search for your content on a mass scale.
- Integrates with the Adobe Suite efficiently so you can quickly find and search the content you are after.
- A great way to organise digital content!
- Being able to access/view different versions in the Adobe Suit.
- Sometimes unresponsive/slow clicking keywords.
Canto. Our one stop shop for image management.
- Accessing images
- Cataloguing
- Archiving
- Tagging
- More power users are allowed.
- Update to the user interface.
- The original link of a file remains the same even after uploading new versions. This allows us to link to or embed files (whether graphics, images, PDFs, etc.) on the website one time and it can be updated in real-time without having to log into the CMS. This allows us greater control over who needs access to use our CMS and creates easy touchpoints for the internal teams that I serve.
- The tagging features in Canto are especially helpful as a secondary way to find/filter search results within the system. We have both a layered folder structure to house files, otherwise you can search by tags as well. A single file can belong to multiple tags which is really helpful.
- Canto also has many controls when it comes to privacy and user permissions. We can lock any particular folder or album and hide it so that only certain user accounts have permissions to view them. This again allows for greater control and gives our IT product team flexibility from an administrative perspective.
- I have noticed that overall the major downfall in implementing this system is a lack of infrastructure/rules to create a standard operating procedure for all users. This is the downside of having such a flexible platform: it is easy for the organization of files to get messy and to be mismanaged. Our IT team has been slowly rolling out the use of Canto across the organization until there is clear direction when it comes to organization and administrative privileges. A more robust onboarding experience for the tool might be beneficial, or additional support resources for implementing across an organization.
- Recently there has been a little bit of a letdown when it comes to uploading new file versions. I am not sure the extent of the issue, but Canto has been experiencing issues (which they are currently in the process of resolving) where new file versions do not appear automatically. Sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for a new version to be "published". Hopefully this will be resolved and is just a temporary bug.
Canto passes the test, but has room for improvement
- Presentations: Overview and Business Unit presentations . BUs and sales people can upload their presentations, and we can keep them in a single location.
- Marketing media library: over 10k images, 500 brochures, 300 advertisements, 100s of presentations, and other media, such as videos and animations, that anyone can access instantly
- Website content management
- User interface
- Previewing files
CANto!
- sharing assets internally
- sharing assets externally
- one centralized location for a global organization
- honestly no recommendations on how to improve
Get Canto. Save Time.
- Face recognition to quickly find agent, staff, volunteer, etc.
- When a child passes away we send a thumb drive in a beautiful box to the parents that includes all photos and video we have of the child.
- Sharing photo and video files with our sponsors, video production vendors and other partners.
- One DAM Base saves us all time and effort searching for “that one photo” we saw once. We all upload, share and have access to all photo assets.
- MIB Agents Media will be available as a legacy for all time, not just for current stewards of the org.
- Seems they think of everything.
An excellent photo library
- Organize images
- Tag images
- Import images through a link
- Add metadata to imported images
- It should allow the upload of .txt files
- It should allow more options to add metadata
Great tool for organizing your content
- Tagging
- Streamlining Processes
- Organization
- User friendly
- Upload links - would be great to be able to import a full list of contacts from excel instead of having to manually enter each contant
- Portals can be tricky to master
- I did not face trouble in its configuration, it provides much integration which helps me to extract the data across various platforms.
- I have got rid of manual maintenance of the files on my desktop, now I easily search and sought the file through date.
- It has provided an alignment to my daily work and I am its happy and satisfied customer.
- It is limited in terms of file upload it only processes the data up to certain limits but also it varies with the plan you have purchased, still, it’s an issue or the small business set-ups.
- Further with time this systems start to lag it take time to load any file.
Canto is the best DAM product on the market
- Canto consistently updates it's software, so they're always making it better and more efficient, user-friendly, etc.
- Provides a portal option that helps you control how your images are being displayed to users, which images can be seen and gives an aesthetic version for employees.
- Canto is very responsive to support requests, ticket submissions, etc., and will work with you until your problem is resolved.
- There's no size limit on files that you can upload.
- It works fairly quickly when uploading images.
- The download button is hard to find, a little obscure and I'm finding that employees are having a hard time figuring out how to download images without help/instructions.
- I had to write up detailed instructions for employees on how to use Canto. It's not exactly user-friendly and self-explanatory upon first use. You have to use it a while to fully understand all capabilities.
- When you do a search, there's the option where if you mouse over the search icon, a tool pops up allowing you to "search within" and the option to select other search filters. This is not easily findable. I have to tell people about it to narrow their search.
Canto can be your friend
- It allows you to customize your files with Folders, Keywords and Tags
- Search function is very customizable
- Customer support is very strong
- Smart Tags could work better
- I would really love if allow us to rename the file if people download files
Smart tags are not accurate in our case.
Find photos fast and easily
- The tagging system (including smart tags) is great because it gives users the ability to find photos even if you only have vague details of the photo you're looking for.
- Canto lets you seamlessly download photos.
- Nothing I can think of.
We love Canto!
- Custom Configuration
- Customer Service
- The system can be slow, at times