Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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Very helpful, but a lot of work upfront
What do you like best about the product?
The most helpful feature of Canto is its searchability. You're able to put assets in folders along with adding tags and keywords. This way, anyone is able to find assets even if they aren't familiar with your folder structure.
What do you dislike about the product?
The hardest part of Canto is putting all the assets in it, to begin with. It's a long process adding assets and tagging them. Once you have all your current assets in Canto, it's still a pain to put new ones in.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Before Canto, it was hard for team members to find assets they needed if they aren't in our folder structure often. We have a lot of assets and it was easy to forget them, or lose them. But Canto makes it easy to find photos and videos by just typing in what you're looking for.
Work Smarter Not Harder - Such a Timesaver!
What do you like best about the product?
This software makes organizing and tagging thousands photos so ridiculously easy. Everything is easily organized and accessible to your team internally but it's also so easy to share files and photos externally with easy link creation and download options.
What do you dislike about the product?
When tagging large batches of photos (1000+), if you select and apply tag data to only two or more photos when exiting back out of the edit data option canto automatically re-scrolls back to the beginning of all the images. Can be a bit frustrating to keep scrolling back down to try and find where you left off tagging for large batches, but otherwise lovely software!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It took so much time to manually look through photos, download them from an external harddrive to our server and then manually sort into folders for performance reporting on assets. Canto has saved me HOURS and HOURS of time. It's made a world of difference to be able to search through thousands of my teams photos for exactly the image tags I need in a few seconds rather than search aimlessly through multiple server folders for hours.
Canto has been an excellent addition to our Communications team
What do you like best about the product?
Canto was very simple to understand and operate from the start. There are lots of tooltips that are there to help whenever you aren't sure what something does or how to use a feature. Canto also has an excellent library of questions and answers from users and moderators that have been helpful throughout. Uploading large numbers of assets can happen relatively easily. Customer service is excellent and responsive. I appreciate that they are constantly adding or improving features that add value to the software.
What do you dislike about the product?
When we migrated to Canto almost two years ago, I would have appreciated more use case examples and best practices specific to how our office intended to use the software. I do think that there are some things we could have done differently at the beginning of our migration that would have optimized Canto even more.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto has allowed us to create galleries of photos of just about any number that we can easily share with both on-campus and external partners as needed. It allows us to mark photos with tags that are easy to search to get our hands on just what we need. It has been a serious time-saving. I particularly like the facial recognition feature, which has gotten better and better. It allows us to find photos of specific people in our 100,000+ library even when they are not all tagged.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a product that is relatively easy to migrate into and to use once set up. Their customer service is excellent and very responsive. They take users' suggestions seriously and implement them when possible to the overall platform.
Canto is exceptional at what it does
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy Canto makes it to share and distribute albums to my clients. A process that used to take me hours, now only takes me a few minutes once my photographer delivers the pictures.
What do you dislike about the product?
Because it's web based, when you're looking at an album that is particularly loaded with content, it takes a while for it to load and the animation that happens when pictures load can be quite...repetitive. Those are small small nit picky issues I have with it though.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Two of the main things I'm solving are as follow:
1. The ability to share photos of events with my clients has drastically improved. For instance, I usually have clients that ask for photos from certain events that have recently passed. My old method was to just start searching for their faces in our [very organized] public drive on our system. Now, with features like auto face recognition, tagging, keywords, etc. I have a little thinking I need to do ahead, but canto really makes it easy to find everything I'm looking for at the touch of a button, put those images in a folder, and send to clients in a private link. It's incredible.
2. In a similar vain, I often have to send corporate partners documentation at the end of the year of all their events. This is a process I don't want to spend too much time on and happens only once a year. If I just keep everything tagged cleanly [and canto having the ability to add sponsors to events let's me be super clean], it's a very simple pull at the end of a season to send to my clients in a professional manner.
1. The ability to share photos of events with my clients has drastically improved. For instance, I usually have clients that ask for photos from certain events that have recently passed. My old method was to just start searching for their faces in our [very organized] public drive on our system. Now, with features like auto face recognition, tagging, keywords, etc. I have a little thinking I need to do ahead, but canto really makes it easy to find everything I'm looking for at the touch of a button, put those images in a folder, and send to clients in a private link. It's incredible.
2. In a similar vain, I often have to send corporate partners documentation at the end of the year of all their events. This is a process I don't want to spend too much time on and happens only once a year. If I just keep everything tagged cleanly [and canto having the ability to add sponsors to events let's me be super clean], it's a very simple pull at the end of a season to send to my clients in a professional manner.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just give it a chance. The team at Canto is patient and always listening.
User-Friendly, Shareable, Accessible to Everyone
What do you like best about the product?
One of the main things we like about Canto is the ability to tag, share, and organize all of our digital assets in a user-friendly interface. this product is easy to use and one of the best features is the keyword and tag search usability. the integration took a bit of time because we had a large database of files to tag and upload, but now the organization of said assets is systemized and clearly defined going forward.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integration took a bit of time because of the tagging and organization that needed to be done. this is one of the important parts but also something that was not 100% clarified. there are multiple places where the same information can be entered so we wonder if there might be a little bit of overlap or redundancy in this regard. Overall, this was all worth it to ensure our assets were properly tagged and searchable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
One of the larger issues we solved by moving to Canto is the siloed assets that lived in different computers, hard drives, and servers. Introducing Canto allowed us to put all these assets under a single system that is clearly designed to be user-friendly and fully functional for the type of uses that we require on a daily basis. from finding assets for projects to creating case studies for meetings. All assets are under one platform and sharable to reps, customers, and homeowners with just a few clicks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are a company that relies heavily on having easily accessible digital assets but struggle to find what you need when you need it. Canto Digital Asset Management is probably a good option to look in to. it certainly helped us in our organization and we work with thousands of files that each require dozens of tags.
Great tool for asset management
What do you like best about the product?
It allows multiple units across our entire campus access to a central, searchable repository. I really like that users can have different levels of access as well so even if someone isn't a part of the units on campus that primarily use these assets, they are still accessible to them.
What do you dislike about the product?
I guess the only con I've seen would be that it's all web based and the assets are housed in the cloud. This is mainly a pro because it better protects our assets and makes them easily accessible from anywhere, but it is a bit of a con because it takes a little bit more time to access larger files and your internet connection becomes a variable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Our biggest issues are duplication of assets, difficulty finding assets and knowing what assets are all available on campus. This helps solve all of these problems.
Easy to use!
What do you like best about the product?
You can customize nearly everything. Everythin is sorted very guud. The Support is very quick.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Indesign addon is a litte bit difficult to use sometimes.
Somtime there are Problem with teh Resolution.
Somtime there are Problem with teh Resolution.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We can sort all our Pictures very good an find Photos in seconds.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Canto is a softwar, you can customice nearly everything.
The Price is ok for everxthin Canto offers.
The Price is ok for everxthin Canto offers.
perfect for big teams
What do you like best about the product?
easy set up
easy to use with big amount of people
easy tagging
easy up-/download
easy to use with big amount of people
easy tagging
easy up-/download
What do you dislike about the product?
the only thing I maybe would say I "dislike" is, that Canto isn't self-explaining 100% and that beginners need a introduction, but right after that everything is as easy as for more experienced users :-)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we're sharing our marketing files with Canto all other our different affilliated companies so that everyone can contribute from the various creations, each companie makes
A great replacement for media silo
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to tag ( via import), can mass delete specific file via a CSV file, The little portals that they have for brand guides is also great. The level of control we get over our files is where it needs to be. It was also easy for us to sync our images that were in Google drive to Canto.
What do you dislike about the product?
I do not like being charged per power user. I would prefer that would be open and charged per storage level (by the GB). No mobile app either.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
allows us to share images across our departments and external resources. We now have granular control over our images and great reporting with canto. as a result, we have been able to remove duplicates and save on storage costs as well.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the import function for tagging. And reporting to see how your assets are set up.
Dreading going through file folder after file folder to find that one photo?? Look no more!
What do you like best about the product?
Lessening the amount of space used in shared folders and WAY less valuable time spent searching through dozens of folders for photos or videos. Eliminates the use of DropBox or WeTransfer and allows you to share files easily without
What do you dislike about the product?
When typing into the text columns, the text appears white which is very difficult to see
When going through albums and tagging, it often goes all the way to the top of the album after you individually select a photo.
Sometimes the tagging option is not allowed when you have ad blockers installed (works in Incognito mode)
When going through albums and tagging, it often goes all the way to the top of the album after you individually select a photo.
Sometimes the tagging option is not allowed when you have ad blockers installed (works in Incognito mode)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Lessening the amount of space used in shared folders and WAY less valuable time spent searching through dozens of folders for photos or videos. Eliminates the use of DropBox or WeTransfer and allows you to share files easily without
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use the available tech support - they are very quick to respond and help out.
Get the whole team on board, it is a great way to save valuable time.
Get the whole team on board, it is a great way to save valuable time.
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