How 5 teams transformed their creative workflows with DAM
| July 29, 2019
Today’s creative teams face not only the challenge of making content that stands out, but also the daunting task of managing all that content: storing it, organizing it, finding it, and delivering it into the right hands at the right times. All of this amounts to many hours that most creatives would rather spend…well, creating.
At Canto, we believe the goal of digital asset management (DAM) is to align and mobilize teams so that they work better together. Here are some of the ways creative teams have streamlined their content workflows with DAM, and gained time back to devote toward creating.
1. Godiva Chocolate’s design team saves half an hour per person every day using Canto.
The global packaging design team at Godiva Chocolate uses Canto to organize seasonal promo collateral and other time-sensitive materials. Like Mitsubishi, they employ Canto portals to save time dealing with image requests. This enables the team to dedicate more time to creating beautiful, inspiring packaging for Godiva chocolates.
2. Taos Footwear uses Canto portals to streamline dealer relationships.
Taos Footwear chose Canto to organize and relay the internal creative produced at Taos – from their graphic designer, product photographer and marketing coordinator – through to management approvals and onward to the Taos dealer network. As the Taos brand grows, it’s essential that they are able to maintain strong relationships with their dealers. Canto portals provide a professional, Taos-branded online location for individual dealers to quickly download the marketing assets they need.
3. Downtown Boston Business Improvement District now turns around image requests in minutes, not days.
The Downtown Boston Business Improvement District is dedicated to improving the lives of all who live, work, and visit downtown Boston. The organization uses Canto on a daily basis to manage their photo library as well as images for publications and online channels. Ultimately, Downtown Boston credits the success of their media relations and media production asset management to Canto’s enterprise level features packed within a SaaS team product.
4. Pearl Drums uses a Canto portal to save time with dealer image requests.
Pearl Drums chose Canto to manage their collection of digital assets and make the right ones available to the drum company’s hundreds of dealers. With upload links, Pearl can receive images from artists of their products in use during concerts and other events. This has helped pump up their grassroots marketing efforts, while giving them new ways to connect with artists and keep their ears to the drumbeat of the market.
Read more tips on how to use DAM in our e-book, “How Creative Teams Succeed with Digital Asset Management.”