Die beste Digital Asset Management Software 2022

A Leader by The Forrester Wave™ Digital Asset Management for Customer Experience, Q1 2022 report.

Bynder helps you create, find and use digital assets with streamlined collaboration and a focus on brand consistency across all markets and channels. It provides cloud digital asset management delivered through a slick, clean interface. Features include one central location to store all brand and campaign assets, direct asset available for users across the world, simplified file searching, built-in security controls such as two-factor authentication, user rights and access settings to protect your content, and more.

Bynder scores high in the Features and Functionality section of our evaluation criteria specifically because they have great support for a variety of file types, browser integration is pristine, user-friendliness for the dissemination of brand guidelines, and many more top-notch capabilities.

Integrations include Slack, Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Manager, Sitecore, Sitefinity, BloomReach, Drupal 7, Drupal 8, WordPress, Okta, Google, Hootsuite, Microsoft Active Directory, Collect.io, Shutterstock, SDL Tridion, Templafy, and TYPO3.

The only cons to note are that parts of the interface are a bit cumbersome or clumsy and more customizability options would be helpful for large-scale projects.

Bynder offers customized pricing based on request and has a free trial and/or a free demo.

Widen Collective is a really useful tool to organize, share, and distribute your brand assets and product content across the web. In the end, it helps empower your marketers, salespeople, and partners to get the content they need on demand.

Something notable about this tool is its powerful search functionality and flexible metadata models. In this sense, Widen Collective stands out in our features and functionality evaluation, where searchability and flexibility reign supreme. And in addition to using metadata to classify your assets, you can also assign different roles and permissions to different user groups to control access levels.

You don't see this in every digital asset manager, but in Widen Collective you'll find an analytics feature. This means you can understand who is using your content, which can in turn inform more effective creative deliverables.

It's worth mentioning that you could use this tool as a standalone digital asset management tool or you could build it out into a larger management system. In addition to the core DAM offering (Widen Assets and Insights), several add-on applications are available to construct your brand management, marketing resource management, or product information management system that works for your use case. For example, you can use Entries to assemble product content for e-commerce distribution, or Portals to share curated collections within branded webpages. You could also leverage Templates to build localized ads and brochures or use their Workflow add-on to manage work-in-process review and approval.

The Widen Collective integrates with dozens of platforms spanning content management, project management, marketing automation, customer relationship management, social media, sales enablement, and more.

Widen offers pricing upon request.

Founded in 2012 and acquired by Smartsheet in 2020, Brandfolder is an industry leader in Digital Asset Management software.

Brandfolder delivers a DAM software that is as intuitive for users as it is powerful for admins. Easily store, manage, share, manipulate, and analyze assets across hundreds of formats including 8K video, documents, images, and 3D renderings with little to no training. In addition to core DAM functionality, Brandfolder provides robust features to empower key stakeholders such as marketers, salespeople, franchise partners, agencies, and retailers with SmartCDN, collaborative workspaces, and self-serve asset templates.

These features free up already stretched-thin creative teams by giving users the ability to resize and reformat asset downloads on-demand, quickly create or customize content using pre-approved templates, and embed digital assets across the web that automatically update. Brandfolder’s proprietary AI/ML and analytics technology, Brand IntelligenceⓇ , can detect duplicate assets, extract brand-specific metadata, and auto-tag images for more powerful search capabilities and asset usage analytics.

The recent acquisition by Smartsheet has led to deeper integrations with the leading collaborative work management system to level up marketing and creative production with powerful automations, reporting, and workflow capabilities. Additional integrations include Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office 365, Slack, Highspot, Google Suite, Sitecore, Shopify, Hubspot, Contentful, Salesforce, Workfront, OKTA, WordPress, Seismic, Drupal 8, Hootsuite, Jira, Trello, Templafy, Wrike, SSO/SAML, and many more, accessible via Zapier.

With best-in-class time-to-value, services, support, security, and scalability Brandfolder enables brands around the world like Slack, TripAdvisor, Lyft, and P.F. Changs to create compelling brand experiences with unparalleled efficiency and speed.

Brandfolder offers pricing upon request and has a free demo.

Scaleflex’s Filerobot is a GDPR-compliant Digital Asset Management platform that is software-agnostic and helps teams store, manage, optimize, share, and accelerate all digital and media assets. If you handle a remote team, you'll be happy to know it offers a user interface in over 8 different languages!

Among its features are an inline image editor with social media presets, duplicate management, versioning control, and media optimization. Also, you can set custom permissions and user roles, and have your team collaborate and share internally and with external partners.

On the innovation front, their AI and machine learning allow bulk background removal, video transcoding and adaptive streaming, and auto-tagging for enriched search capabilities.

Note: They have comprehensive documentation and in-house DAM experts who provide training to help you deploy faster.

Integrations include Adobe Creative Cloud, WordPress, Magento, Canva, Opencart, Kontent, Pabbly Connect, Sylius, Akeneo, Prismic, Zapier and they are always looking to expand their libraries. Your developers will be happy to know it offers headless APIs for custom integrations.

Scaleflex offers a free demo and customized pricing plans, allowing companies to scale as they grow.

MediaValet is a digital asset management solution that helps organizations easily manage, find, and share their high-value digital assets (source, WIP, and final). As a cloud-based DAM available from anywhere, it helps teams improve their productivity, increase asset ROI and drive revenue growth.

Advanced search and tagging features enable users to pinpoint what they need in seconds. Artificial intelligence automatically tags photos and documents with object, text and color recognition, making them instantly discoverable on upload. For video content, Audio/Video Intelligence automatically generates metadata tags for people, objects, text, and spoken word – it can even generate captions in over 70 languages, making video content more accessible.

With unlimited users and administrators included in enterprise subscriptions, MediaValet allows teams worldwide to scale quickly and cost-effectively. Plus, unlimited training and support ensures that all users are confident using the system and can maximize its value.

Delivering the highest level of security and scalability, MediaValet is trusted by many of the world's largest and most respected brands, such as the Jane Goodall Institute, Experian, and Brand USA.

Mediavalet integrates with Wrike, Workfront, Slack, OKTA, Active Directory, WordPress. Drupal 8, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sharepoint, Office 365, Hootsuite, and more.

Pricing is available upon request.

monday.com is a great digital asset management software because of the way the tool has done away with a lot of the trimmings of typical digital content management tools and focused on simple, visually intuitive layouts that help clarify the sequence of work for any marketing team.

monday.com allows you to allocate & prioritize tasks, use various views in order to see where everything stands, and track multiple projects using dashboards that provide high-level insights in a visual and intuitive way. It has client management capabilities that let you do everything from setting up automatic reminders, due date notifications, and assign members of your creative team to new tasks automatically. The platform also provides powerful and customizable notifications and automation so you and your team can focus on what's important.

With monday.com you can plan, manage and track your budgets in an intuitive interface. You can track expenses, income, their dates, and attach needed files to each item. And thanks to the various columns, you can filter items by many different variables such as status, people, text, time, location and others. Formula columns are also available.

While monday.com doesn’t offer traditional automated reporting, it is built to show the big picture at a glance to help you analyze various aspects of your projects and processes.

monday.com’s integrations include project management apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform and many more, accessible via Zapier.

monday.com costs from $6/user/month and comes with a free 14-day trial. They offer a free plan for up to 2 users.

Filecamp is a digital asset management platform where you can store all your images, videos, creative files, and presentations and easily find them, thanks to its powerful tagging functionality.

This robust platform was created to help you manage and control how your images are used. Therefore, you can upload files and folders, tag them manually or use the auto-tagging feature, filter, sort, search, and download files in the original resolution or the one of your choosing.

If you are interested in your team collaborating on creative assets, Filecamp includes a proofing module where your team can engage in conversations around deliverables, suggest changes and go through approval workflows in a single place. Plus, you can do all this in a white-label product that you can make your own in a way only a few tools let you.

Filecamp allows you to have unlimited users in all plans and starts at $29/month. You can buy additional storage for your plan on-demand and test the tool with their 30-day free trial.

Canto helps to organize all visual content with a digital asset management system that emphasizes ease of use and collaboration. Robust search mechanics, smart sharing between different groups of stakeholders, and ample support (online tutorials or customer helpline) are just a few of the features they offer.

The flexibility of deployment and implementation are just a few of the reasons Canto scored so highly in the Usability evaluation criteria section. Overall, the software was pleasurable to navigate, easy to tune into and customize to individual use cases, and welcoming to new users.

Integrations include Box, Google products, Dropbox, Drupal, Egnyte, Facebook, Adobe Creative Cloud, Mailchimp, Pinterest, Slack, Twitter, TYPO3, Vimeo, WordPress, YouTube, and more.

A minor grip was the amount of data required to satisfy upload forms, which became a bit tiresome. Additionally, the loading of preview images tends to lag quite a bit.

Canto Digital Asset Management offers a quote-based plan upon request and has a 15-day free trial.

Amplifi.io is a cloud-based Digital Asset Management hub featuring centralized and organized content, automatic indexing and grouping of items, an intuitive media portal for teams and clients, online automated commerce support, single-sign-on capabilities, and much more.

The ample self-help resources supplied within Amplifi.io have the potential to significantly reduced the number of phone calls and emails the content/marketing team receives about gaining access to assets, making this app a standout in our Usability evaluation criteria segment.

Available software integrations include Google Drive, Google Analytics, Shopify, and Magento.

More third-party integration options would make Amplifi.io a more competitive choice amongst DAM software. Tagging and analytic features could likewise be updated and improved.

Amplifi.io costs from $12,000/year and offers a free demo.

Wedia is a provider of Digital Asset Management software solutions for large organizations.

They need to produce and manage an ever-growing number of diverse assets that must be rendered in hundreds of variations (size, quality, format, crop). They face external regulatory compliance, third-party licensing compliance, and intrinsic brand consistency issues that constrain their marketing and communication functions. They must deal with multiple technical challenges

resulting from heterogeneous tools and legacy software solutions that produce, manage and consume content and rich media. And above all, they need to adapt and distribute these visuals over multiple channels, physical or digital, all with a single objective: to continuously improve the effectiveness of these visuals and the user experience they help

create.

Wedia helps its clients manage this complexity and convert their marketing visuals into sales by providing them with a central hub to manage, organize, securely share and repurpose their digital assets and media files, whatever the format, and according to their specific organization and business expectations.

Wedia pricing is available upon request. They offer a free demo.