Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Game Changer for Creative and File Management
What do you like best about the product?
We have a lot of creative, spanning from raw image files to full-on ad campaigns. Being able to use tags, which are easily searchable, has been a HUGE time saver. Being able to crop, resize and compress images before downloading make our life a lot easier. I personally really like the Branding Guidelines feature; we can share it with our partners and it's a very clean and simple experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning. There are a LOT of customization options in the backend and it takes practice and diligence to become proficient at it. But it's worth it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Things are much better organized now. We have a proper system in place and we know everything is filed and stored where it should. Most importantly we know we can find everything quickly and efficiently.
Great collaboration Tool and Usability
What do you like best about the product?
I love the ability to collaborate with team members and share assets between teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish there was a connector for Affinity Designer.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ability to easily access creative assets easily and in an organized way.
Dante would be proud of this Canto
What do you like best about the product?
Canto's administration tools are awesome and allow users to easily be managed with regards to rights/privileges. User sign ups are quite easy as the user can self register.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's a bit of a learning curve with regards to mass tagging. But, with that being said, once you understand the concept behind meta-tagging in bulk, it makes for a very powerful tool. If you're a decent excel user, you should be fine when it comes to this task.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Internal storage confusion has complete gone away. Now, our small team has a single source for digital assets with numerous ways to finding the resource in need. Time isnt being wasted and frustration levels are greatly reduced. Plus, our external stakeholders are becoming more and more self-reliant when harvesting digital properties.
Quick, easy to use repository
What do you like best about the product?
I love the search functionality. It's super quick and easy to find the assets I need. Also, the share links are awesome. Everything is very user friendly.
I love how you can create share links and toggle their settings. Now, we can share videos with clients and not worry about them downloading the videos. This is also much quicker for everyone. The client can watch the video on a web browser, instead of having to download it, and depending on the video size, this can take quite some more time.
I love how you can create share links and toggle their settings. Now, we can share videos with clients and not worry about them downloading the videos. This is also much quicker for everyone. The client can watch the video on a web browser, instead of having to download it, and depending on the video size, this can take quite some more time.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish you could quickly share "My Collections" with anyone, like create a shareable link to a collection, instead of having to select all the assets within a collection and then creating a share link.
I wish you could more easily share groupings of assets with other folks.
I wish some of the tools were more readily available. For example, I have to select an asset, then the select all button will appear, so I need to make 2 clicks to select everything, when I wish it could be 1.
I wish you could more easily share groupings of assets with other folks.
I wish some of the tools were more readily available. For example, I have to select an asset, then the select all button will appear, so I need to make 2 clicks to select everything, when I wish it could be 1.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We created a repository with our best creative assets, tagged in many ways, so that many teams can find the assets they need quickly. We're realizing that if we can get as many videos into Canto as we can, the possibilities are limitless.
I think My Collections are very useful. Now, everyone can make their own personal selections of their favorite assets, and they can make different selections for each situation. A collection for a meeting on a certain ad placement, a selection for a client pitch, etc.
I think My Collections are very useful. Now, everyone can make their own personal selections of their favorite assets, and they can make different selections for each situation. A collection for a meeting on a certain ad placement, a selection for a client pitch, etc.
Can't do without Canto
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and simplifies our team's workflow accessing assets
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI/UX experience could be improved nominally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're solving the challenge of having to find specific assets in proposals, pitches, and presentations. Canto simplifies that across our team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
We reviewed several options, and Canto was easily the best.
Best Digital Assets Mgmt Platform Ever!
What do you like best about the product?
The ease of accessibility of your companies assets whether in a conference room, computer or phone. And the permissions you can customized per user.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to delete within the shared collections section and the time it takes to upload videos. The system times out sometimes for the videos to load. And when you click on images to make them bigger they are pixelated while the videos are nice and crisp when you play them within the platform.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Share-ability and search-ability - it frees up valuable work time and provides a great tool for ALL of our companies different departments.
Saves time - very easy share and receive files online - collaboration is helpful
What do you like best about the product?
Things I really like about it:
- It is cloud based
- It makes it very easy to share selections of your library - either through 'share links' or by setting up a 'portal' (like a mini website).
- Through 'drop links' you can receive photos directly into the system from anywhere (life saver for me - who receives photography from many locations)
- Had a branding style guide component - very helpful
- This allows me to share brand assets, but also to curate approved photo collections
- It is collaborative - can designate different permissions for different users. Has tools for commenting etc.
- It takes quite a bit of thought - but you can design your own system of filters and tags (taxonomy) based on what your organization needs to search for.
- There is a 'Canto Connector' that integrates into Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign (so as a designer I don't have to first download the photo(s) in order to try them out in these design programs). Saves a lot of time.
- It can be used for all kinds of files. So we have an extensive 'audio library' now, and are building a 'video library' - all using the established taxonomy.
- They have good support - an account manager who follows up and meets with you to address any concerns/feature requests
- It is cloud based
- It makes it very easy to share selections of your library - either through 'share links' or by setting up a 'portal' (like a mini website).
- Through 'drop links' you can receive photos directly into the system from anywhere (life saver for me - who receives photography from many locations)
- Had a branding style guide component - very helpful
- This allows me to share brand assets, but also to curate approved photo collections
- It is collaborative - can designate different permissions for different users. Has tools for commenting etc.
- It takes quite a bit of thought - but you can design your own system of filters and tags (taxonomy) based on what your organization needs to search for.
- There is a 'Canto Connector' that integrates into Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign (so as a designer I don't have to first download the photo(s) in order to try them out in these design programs). Saves a lot of time.
- It can be used for all kinds of files. So we have an extensive 'audio library' now, and are building a 'video library' - all using the established taxonomy.
- They have good support - an account manager who follows up and meets with you to address any concerns/feature requests
What do you dislike about the product?
While it is fairly intuitive, there are aspects (of the portals for example) that need to be explained to a new user - this can be time consuming. I have been frustrated that new features are sometimes expensive paid add-ons, even when they were discussed as 'coming' during the research process (features I thought would be included with upcoming releases). As much as possible, try to envision future features you will need and consider that in your contract discussions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Problem of many sources: We have photography coming in from many locations in North America - the upload links allow files to be added directly to the systems (rather than coming in a number of ways). I receive files faster, without the need to download and upload.
Problem of accessibility: Important assets are now accessible to a wider number of people internally through our branding portal. Portals in general allow the sharing of assets easily, and allow greater ease of collaboration.
Problem of accessibility: Important assets are now accessible to a wider number of people internally through our branding portal. Portals in general allow the sharing of assets easily, and allow greater ease of collaboration.
Not suitable for graphic designers
What do you like best about the product?
All of our assets can be stored in one place.
What do you dislike about the product?
We were told that the product was suitable for designers, but it has caused nothing but headaches. The Canto Connector extension is unreliable in the Adobe products and works sometimes, but not others. If you have more than one designer working on projects, the other designers cannot see the files with links and when the Canto Connector decides not to work, support suggests deleting the folder that holds all of the photos. Once you do that, all of you documents lose all of their links. At that point it is easier to keep the photos on the computer storage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's easy to tag photos with key words that people may search for.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Do not use if you are a designer storing assets.
Great Value DAM
What do you like best about the product?
Ability to easily create custom fields and build a DAM that worked with our existing workflows.
What do you dislike about the product?
The migration process was not as painless as I would have liked, however that could have had to do more with our previous DAM set up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to create custom fields that are applied as meta data to the actual asset. Our users find Canto easier to navigate than our previous DAM, and we are able to better organize our assets within this platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you understand your existing DAM setup prior to migration, and consider what changes you want to make to your existing set up and how that will affect the migration process.
Plenty of features, can get overwhelming.
What do you like best about the product?
The best features (there are many!) are keyword tagging, file conversion and downsize options on download, and albums features (files can exist in more place than one).
Integration with outside contributors, contractors, and agencies is great and very simple.
Filtered searches/filter are also very handy when looking for one specific file type.
Integration with outside contributors, contractors, and agencies is great and very simple.
Filtered searches/filter are also very handy when looking for one specific file type.
What do you dislike about the product?
Canto can be clunky to work with, especially if you don't have the time to sit down and watch onboarding content or video tutorials on how to navigate the program. The number of features is EXTENSIVE, but they can get overwhelming to work with on the day to day.
Maintaining all the files and keeping everything up to date is also imperative for Canto to work its best, which can get time-consuming. This, however, is not much different to other asset management sites out there, though.
Multiple iterations of a design or photo file get repetitive when scrolling—A feature to identify those very similar files, then group + collapse them together would be an improvement in the scrolling experience.
Maintaining all the files and keeping everything up to date is also imperative for Canto to work its best, which can get time-consuming. This, however, is not much different to other asset management sites out there, though.
Multiple iterations of a design or photo file get repetitive when scrolling—A feature to identify those very similar files, then group + collapse them together would be an improvement in the scrolling experience.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main need we've solved with canto is one for extensive and complex organizational tools, especially for a very large media library. Keyword tagging lets assets "exist" under various categories, which is great. File conversion is also very useful when a specific file type is needed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I think Canto is best for companies with extensive asset libraries with files that fall under various and different categories. For example, you might want to categorize a single image of a blue porcelain bowl under "bowls" "blue items" and "porcelain goods". If a need for vast organization does not exist, Canto might be overcomplicated.
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