Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Great Application for Collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
It's very easy to add files and access remotely.
What do you dislike about the product?
It could be easier to move files around within the app.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing a centralized location to store all assets.
Nice system!
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use. Very predictable when looking for controls.
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish we could connect to CRM to control permissions and would love to be able to have a lot more users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
File security.
Simple enough for new users, complex enough for experienced users
What do you like best about the product?
What's most helpful about this product is the ability to create different portals and levels of access to certain content. This is especially useful working at a higher education institution where there are multiple distinct campus partners. You are able to create, and customize the design of, distinct portals to restrict access to certain content. So within the entire system, you have multiple ways to restrict access, starting with Roles, Portals, and Workspaces.
Canto offers far more options for customizing access and sharing assets than other DAMs our team reviewed. In addition, the customer service experience has been excellent so far; Canto staff are committed to helping you optimize your experience, and have the knowledge to assist you in building the best possible system for you.
Canto offers far more options for customizing access and sharing assets than other DAMs our team reviewed. In addition, the customer service experience has been excellent so far; Canto staff are committed to helping you optimize your experience, and have the knowledge to assist you in building the best possible system for you.
What do you dislike about the product?
I would enjoy the added feature of restricted downloads by type as well as a field to indicate usage before download. For example, if an asset is low-resolution, I would like to restrict the download usage to "social media only" so that someone who selects "print" would be blocked from the download. Right now the only way to do something similar in Canto is to utilize the "notes" feature to indicate how an asset was used/why it was downloaded. Canto will automatically tell you who downloaded an asset and when, so that's helpful information. If you have competent staff in your design and social media spaces, this won't be an issue for you. If you are sharing assets far and wide for usage in print, swag, social media for a company structured like LuLaRoe, then this lack of feature might be an issue for you.
If you are new to this, setting up the structure on your own can be difficult. We chose Canto for the ability to customize on our own, as several staff members have had experience serving as administrators for other DAMs in previous roles. There are other products out there that will offer more structure straight out the gate, if that's what you're looking for. However, I think you'll find that after putting the work into building a thoughtful system architecture on your own, you're going to have a much more fluid experience in your workspace.
As expected with some tools, upload speed in slow. Our account manager suggested using an Ethernet cable for best results.
If you are new to this, setting up the structure on your own can be difficult. We chose Canto for the ability to customize on our own, as several staff members have had experience serving as administrators for other DAMs in previous roles. There are other products out there that will offer more structure straight out the gate, if that's what you're looking for. However, I think you'll find that after putting the work into building a thoughtful system architecture on your own, you're going to have a much more fluid experience in your workspace.
As expected with some tools, upload speed in slow. Our account manager suggested using an Ethernet cable for best results.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto makes sharing assets so simple. No more downloading, moving, Zipping, sharing, unzipping, downloading. Everything can become a simple, shareable link with the click of a button. It's a real time saver for our team. Another great benefit is the ability to use copyright and watermarks on images to protect certain assets. This is especially useful when you're taking in submissions from multiple photographers or clients, or when someone has revoked consent to appear in imagery. Other features that I love about Canto that help solve this problem are the "contributions" section for easy submissions of assets, and the facial recognition capability, for finding certain people who have expressed they don't want to appear in photographs and videos. Across the institution, the design and layout of the workspace is also quite appreciated!
Switch to Image Relay was Beneficial
What do you like best about the product?
We liked the clean, simple interface of Image Relay, primarily because our in-house clients were frustrated by the complexity of using our previous DAM. Also, the IR search function is highly accurate and returns results almost instantly (of course, proper tagging and keyword descriptions of images helps a lot). Setting up and managing the tag library was also very easy to do.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only drawback that regularly comes up is that if you want to grab a large number of images from a screen, but not every single one displayed on a page, you have to click the checkbox on each image. We hope that a future update will include the capability to click and drag to select a quantity of images on a page.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our in-house customers (who are only occasional users of the DAM) have expressed their delight at how easy it is to pick up on searching, selecting and downfolding images. This was one of our goals when selecting Image Relay as our new DAM. We also wanted a system that could return search results quickly, and Image Relay does that every time.
Love Image Relay!
What do you like best about the product?
I use Image Relay probably every single day I am at work. I constantly receive requests for various product images and Image Relay makes it so streamlined and easy to browse all available options and select what I need. My favorite feature is being able to share a set of photos via a link instead of having to download all of the files onto my computer each time. Such a game changer!
What do you dislike about the product?
I really do not have any complaints about this platform! It is easy to access, well organized, and makes my job easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Having all company assets in one place that is easily accessible for all employees is a major problem solve for our company. We previously had assets on google drive and there was always issues with team members being to access, sharing with people outside of our organization and general organization.
Great!
What do you like best about the product?
Photo tagging capabilities make searching and organizing really easy. The collections feature is helpful when needing to share images that are too high res to send via email. Multiple download sizes makes it easy for this tool to work for our entire organization.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes if search is not exact you do not get the results you are looking for, would be nice if search was a little more complex. Also some similar tools allow you to connect directly to Adobe or a website such as Wordpress if that is where you are working with assets which would be a nice feature to have.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to share our visual assets across our entire org. and also share these assets with the partners, reps, and customers we connect with on a regular basis.
Image Relay for store website
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use is the simplest way to describe it. Downloading images and transferring to a website could not be any easier.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes there is a delay when switching folders, but that is minor.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
By using Image Relay I can use/transfer the pictures supplied by the vendor with ease. If it wasn't available it would require a professional photographer and that can get costly. So I would have to say using the software is cost-efficient!
Friendly experience, really useful tool
What do you like best about the product?
the possibility to have all brand creative assets available from all markets saves everybody a lot of time in requests, emails and calls.
What do you dislike about the product?
Folder and files management once they are uploaded could be a bit easier.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing and making available creative assets between the whole marketing team around the globe.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use it, you'll not regret it
User-friendly in one place platform
What do you like best about the product?
the search filter options and to create collections with sections.
What do you dislike about the product?
When you create a collection, you need to choose the files to be included one by one instead of all if need it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
to have everything in one place and be able to share it with everyone and to decide permissions for each use
Recommendations to others considering the product:
user-friendly platform
I can use Canto, and you can to!
What do you like best about the product?
How easy it is to manage and share files uploaded onto the platform to different users, as well as controlling visibility of said files thorough different user specific portals. It is unbelievably easy to manage users as well, with registration to it being able to be set up as a self-registration process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Excel Exports could be more robust, in terms of being able to filter or pull specific groups of files (Such as duplicates)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing Marketing assets to our Franchisees is incredibly easy, with direct links also having the option to set an expiration. Furthermore, user registration is handled through a single link gone through by our franchisees, with Admins only ever really needing to create user accounts for vendors of fellow employees.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a platform for Marketing Assets of the like with a fantastic support team, amazing control over visibility of said assets, and streamlined and easy user management, Canto is right for you!
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