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3 Things Top-Performing Creative Teams Do

POSTED 21.October 20.

Creativity and Design

3 Things Top-Performing Creative Teams Do

Today’s creatives are creating more content than ever. In fact, between the dawn of civilization and 2003, we only created five exabytes. Now, we’re creating that amount every two days. To put ….

Optimizing Your MarTech Stack for Today’s New Normal

POSTED 20.October 20.

Marketing

Optimizing Your MarTech Stack for Today’s New Normal

As marketing professionals, we obsess over metrics surrounding overall site traffic, new versus return visitors, bounce rate, impression shares, our marketing funnel through rate, and the list goes on. Yet, we don’t ….

How Anthony Petre Improves Asset Discoverability at the University of Wollongong with DAM

POSTED 08.October 20.

DAM Use Cases

How Anthony Petre Improves Asset Discoverability at the University of Wollongong with DAM

How does one of the top-ranked universities in the world maximize the usage of their original assets across multiple teams and regions without even breaking a sweat? This was the question we ….

17 Creative Conferences You Should Attend

POSTED 07.October 20.

Creativity and Design

17 Creative Conferences You Should Attend

This blog post was originally posted in June 2018 and has been updated. The digital universe is evolving with astonishing speed. More and more creative teams are becoming accountable for managing the ….

How Amy Lofgreen From BaseCamp Franchising Managed 200+ Stores with DAM, Despite Staff Being Reduced by 90%

POSTED 05.October 20.

DAM Use Cases

How Amy Lofgreen From BaseCamp Franchising Managed 200+ Stores with DAM, Despite Staff Being Reduced by 90%

How does a single marketing team create and distribute 4000+ campaign assets to over 200 franchisees – all while adjusting to a temporary 90% reduction of staff? This is the question we had for Amy Lofgreen, Marketing Director at BaseCamp Franchising. In October 2019, Amy ….

POSTED 15.September 20.

Marketing

[eBook Preview] 6 Healthcare Marketing Trends You Can’t Ignore in 2020

Healthcare is arguably one of the most highly-regulated industries and, by nature, more challenging for any savvy marketer to take on. While conquering this mountain is harder than most, it doesn’t mean ….

How Naomi Pelkey Reduced Asset Requests by 80% at the University of Windsor with DAM

POSTED 02.September 20.

DAM Use Cases

How Naomi Pelkey Reduced Asset Requests by 80% at the University of Windsor with DAM

How does one marketing team go from spending almost 25 hours per week sharing photos, down to less than 5? This is the question we were hoping to answer with Naomi Pelkey, ….

How Jean Baak Streamlines Creative Project Management for HelpMeSee with DAM

POSTED 24.August 20.

DAM Use Cases

How Jean Baak Streamlines Creative Project Management for HelpMeSee with DAM

When Jean Baak started his search in 2018, his goal was to find a single solution to meet HelpMeSee’s project and digital asset management needs. After evaluating multiple vendors, he found a ….

Accelerate Content Creation with Cropping Templates

POSTED 13.August 20.

Product & Integrations

Accelerate Content Creation with Cropping Templates

The number of channels a marketing team is expected to manage is at an all-time high. In fact, for social media alone, Buffer lists 21 social media sites that brands should consider using to reach their ideal audience. Then, take into consideration the other digital and traditional ….

3 Requests That Are Slowing Down Your Creative Team (and Easy Fixes)

POSTED 22.July 20.

DAM Use Cases

3 Requests That Are Slowing Down Your Creative Team (and Easy Fixes)

The world is becoming increasingly visual – across industries, geographic locations and platforms. To this end, it’s no surprise that marketing, sales and other departments have turned to high-quality, visual content to ….

Introducing Cropping: Save Valuable Time and Streamline Workflow

POSTED 15.July 20.

Product & Integrations

Introducing Cropping: Save Valuable Time and Streamline Workflow

Content has become a cornerstone of all good marketing strategies. Marketing teams need to constantly deliver new and relevant content to keep their brand top of mind. Unfortunately, many teams are unable to act independently and rely ….

The 4 Pillars of Building a DAM Governance Plan

POSTED 09.July 20.

DAM Best Practices

The 4 Pillars of Building a DAM Governance Plan

Simrin Purhar is a Customer Success Manager at MediaValet. With a background in both business and computer science, she’s able to lead successful system implementations and develop DAM strategies for clients. In ….

POSTED 28.October 16.

DAM Basics

What is a Digital Asset?

Understanding the definition of a digital asset is one of the most important steps to starting your digital asset management system (DAM) research. So, what is a digital asset? Many people consider ….

POSTED 06.December 19.

Marketing

Need-to-Know Digital Marketing Statistics for 2020

This blog post was originally posted in December 2018 and has been updated. Digital marketing is constantly evolving, with marketers always exploring new ways to engage customers and create experiences that excite ….

POSTED 09.July 20.

DAM Basics

DAM vs CMS: How Are They Different?

As the digital asset management industry has matured, the terms “digital assets” and “content” have begun to be used interchangeably. While this change emerged as a way to resonate more with marketing ….

POSTED 07.October 20.

Creativity and Design

17 Creative Conferences You Should Attend

POSTED 05.June 19.

DAM Basics

DAM vs. MAM: Which is Right for You?

With 60% of marketers creating at least one piece of content every day, it’s becoming increasingly challenging for organizations to effectively organize and manage their growing libraries. This detrimental problem has caused ….

The 6 Key Features of a Digital Asset Management System

POSTED 06.March 18.

DAM Basics

The 6 Key Features of a Digital Asset Management System

What are the key features of a digital asset management system? As digital asset management has evolved, the answer to this question seems to be getting more and more muddled. Why? With ….

Why Watermarks are Important and How to Use Them

POSTED 17.January 20.

DAM Industry Insights

Why Watermarks are Important and How to Use Them

The need for original, visual content is at an all-time high. In fact, relevant content has been linked to increasing purchase intent. With this trend, HubSpot found that 51% of marketers are ….

5 Steps to Getting Sales to Find & Use Your Collateral

POSTED 28.September 16.

Marketing

5 Steps to Getting Sales to Find & Use Your Collateral

More often than not, marketing teams are tasked with creating collateral to help spark interest with potential customers, move them along the sales funnel and win deals against competitors. From brochures & ….

The History and Evolution of Digital Asset Management

POSTED 27.March 17.

DAM Industry Insights

The History and Evolution of Digital Asset Management

Digital asset management is a tool used by organizations worldwide to help them manage their brand and scale marketing performance, but DAM wasn’t always the vital part of the marketing stack that ….

POSTED 14.September 17.

DAM Basics

Dropbox or DAM? 6 Questions to Ask

Dropbox or DAM? Just a few years ago, the answer would have been obvious. Dropbox and digital asset management systems were miles apart in functionality, with Dropbox being seen as a file ….

The Beginners Guide to Building a DAM Taxonomy

POSTED 04.July 19.

DAM Best Practices

The Beginners Guide to Building a DAM Taxonomy

Implementing a DAM isn’t a one-step solution. It requires ongoing commitment and effort to ensure that adoption and ROI are high. One of the most essential components of an impactful DAM implementation ….

POSTED 18.March 20.

DAM Use Cases

3 Ways a DAM Can Help Remote Teams

While many organizations feel that they’re equipped to support remote work, a report from Upwork found that only 43% of companies actually have a remote work policy in place. This can be ….