Image Relay

Image Relay is intelligently designed for any marketer, especially if your products require a library of images and video and especially if you feel like your team could use some quality onboarding to make sure everything is set up right and to make sure your team is equipped to use the software effectively. Specifically speaking, since we have so many products and we're building a bigger direct relationship with customers, it was important that we have an easy way to store and access assets that can represent those products and resonate with potential customers. Image Relay also made it really easy to group assets for sharing with influencers and other marketing partners. Dropbox and Google Drive may have their place and their functionalities that set them apart, so it's important to not look at Image Relay like one of those older document services storage spaces — though those companies could learn a lot from how Image Relay helps marketers enrich their assets and store them smartly.

Image Relay is perfect for a creative team that is putting out a lot of content and always creating more. It works great with freelancers and has customizable access for different groups of individuals. I have not seen the PIM side of things with Image Relay. Management chose a different system for our PIM but it was prior to learning about Image Relay. The system we have for PIM seemed more robust for syndicating to multiple channels, however, it does not have the collaboration a creative team needs as Image Relay does.

Image Relay makes it easy for us to store Photos, Contracts, and Documents that need to be seen and shared by our team of 6 employees. I don't see any scenarios where it is less appropriate than any other available options. In fact, I think it is superior to all other database-type platforms on the market. Easy-to-use, clean and simple interface and the best customer service I have ever experienced.

Since we are working with a lot of different stores, we need to share different images with all of them. Last week I had to share between 50 and 75 images with a customer. All I had to is to select the folder I wanted to share with them, copy the link, and put it in an email. They can download it by themselves and if I make some changes to the images, they always have the latest version with the same link.

Very professional company, they reply very fast to any questions or information. Enough storage and bandwidth space. Helps you with their demo. A good platform for companies to store and share their assets mainly if you are marketing your products. Maybe review the pricing because I think this can be helpful for small companies also to be able to use this tool.

The initial upload of more than 3 terabytes of files - photos and documents - went very smoothly. Image Relay provided an SFTP portal for the larger, bulk file transfers. You do want to make sure you have an Internet-capable of adequate upload speeds to handle such massive file transfers to minimize the amount of time it takes to upload. With a direct, onsite ethernet connection to our server at our HQ, the upload speed handled the uploads fairly efficiently. Attempting to do the same remotely from a home office, the upload speed was inadequate. To date, our staff has been quite receptive to the benefits of Image Relay. The main question they ask is why didn't we do this sooner. We had been using our in-house server to store, manage and share our digital photos and documents. It was cumbersome, to say the least. Image Relay has made organizing, searching for, and sharing photos internally and externally much easier and more efficient. I believe it will more than pay for itself based on staff time saved.

When our donors or supporters ask us for historical photos, we use Image Relay to quickly search our archives and share high-res versions with them. Now that our staff is working remotely more often, they can access our digital archives without having to connect to our network via VPN. When we work with agencies to create our annual magazines or fundraising collateral, we can give the agency temporary access to our entire photo archive and let them choose the art that works best. When we want to search for information on our donors or Alumni, Image Relay can search keywords in old PDFs or publications to show us everything that has been written about a subject in our archives. When we host tournaments, we can share collections with all competitors and add photos in real-time that they can use on their social media platforms, expanding our reach.

Image Relay is a great way to send large files and groups of assets to collaborators. Whether that means allowing someone to upload marketing images to the platform for you to receive, or sending large collections of data/photos/records. It is also a great way for your assets to be provided and used by an outside party. Permissions limit what they can and cannot have access to, so it really enables you to make the collaboration process efficient and exactly the way you want it to be.

Well-suited: A graphic designer is looking for a photo of students at the Dell Medical School doing research. Keyword searches such as students, Dell, research would yield optimal results and get the user what they need. Could use improvement: I've set up a new user after being contacted with the request. The user appears to be set up with an SSO account, but later they contact me saying their login attempt failed. I cannot find them by searching the Active Users and am left to troubleshoot why it did not take.

Image Relay is fantastic for keeping, tagging, and searching for imagery and files. It is easy to share files and keep everything organized and up to date. It does have storage restrictions so it would not be a great tool to use for housing a huge video library or something with a ton of large file sizes.

Image Relay is well suited for asset management, archiving art, and sharing files with others. It may be less appropriate for organizations that are not well organized, as the platform can get disorganized by those using it if there is not a clear plan for usage.