10 Best Digital Asset Management Software (DAM) In 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.

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.

MediaValet is a digital asset management solution that aims to empower sales and channel teams to find up-to-date, relevant collateral and content on any device, anywhere. They allow users to create, collaborate and preview Office documents, visuals, PDFs, videos, even 3D files within MediaValet library. Streamline the sorting and search process with AI-driven object, text, color and face recognition.

The searchability of assets is pristine with MediaValets automatic tagging features. Files are organized for easy retrievable by grouping into categories and subcategories in order to amplify the user experience. This is why I was compelled to score them highly in the UX and Usability categories within our evaluation criteria guidelines.

MediaValet has an app for iOS, Android and Windows. Software integrations include Wrike, Workfront, Slack, OKTA, Active Directory, WordPress. Drupal 8, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sharepoint, Office 365, Hootsuite, and more.

A noticeable con was the duplication (or otherwise troubling result) of attempting to have two users access or work on the same file. This stifled collaboration somewhat.

MediaValet offers a free demo.

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 cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) solution that helps marketing & creative teams organize and share their digital media such as images, videos, and brand guidelines. Filecamp comes with unlimited users, each user configured with their own set of user, admin, and folder permissions.

Filecamp lets you employ custom branding options so that your DAM system matches your brand guidelines; you can even customize the interface and log-in screen down to specific folders and customers. You can also use Filecamp to set up a custom media portal for distributors around the world, or simply to send a download link to a colleague down the hall.

Filecamp offers advanced search capabilities and lets you filter by keyword, author, file type, and expiry date. Keywords, XMP metadata, and auto tags make all your media files searchable. Team leaders can leverage their built-in online proofing and commenting tools to review and approve creative work.

Filecamp costs from $29/month offers a 30-day free trial.

Eagle is a digital assets management software made by designers for designers, creative professionals, and small business owners. Eagle comes with an all-in-one library and cross-reference structure that allows you to streamline your file management disaster.

It focuses on 4 major workflows collect, organize, search, and browse to help you keep track of files across different online platforms. Eagle satisfies most of the features and functionality section in our criteria, such as refreshing user interface, easy to use, light weighted and it offers advanced filters to find files by colors, shapes, dimension, tags, ratings, notes, and more!

Eagle supports over 81+ formats including images, 3D objects, videos, audio, font, mindmaps, diagrams, and popular proprietary formats. Perfect for those who navigate between different brand assets. Integrating with other design software is just a drag and drop away. Additionally, you can store files in different folders for different projects without duplication.

You can use Eagle App on macOS and Windows, sadly, there are no iOS or Android versions at the moment yet. Eagle is an on-premise product, it provides connectivity ability with most of the popular cloud services, so you won’t have to worry about extra storage fees or learning costs.

Eagle App offers 30 days free trial, one-time payment, no subscriptions. Each license costs $29.95 and can be paired on two different devices regardless of the operating system. Discounts are available for students and teachers.

Swivle DAM is an intuitive digital asset management system made by WoodWing and used by the likes of Forbes and TopGear. The tool lets users share assets in a public or password-protected portal to easily collaborate with audience, clients, or resellers. Each portal you use has unique content, unique branding, and a unique subdomain.

Swivel excels in easy collaboration with a one-click share option as well as plenty of UI room for comments, design recommendations, and approvals. Swivel comes with image editor features, like resizing, so you won’t have to worry about external software for those purposes.

Higher-level plans come with an inDesign plugin and an API for additional integrations. Other app plugins are not included in the product details or demo.

Typical customers of Swivle tend to be freelancers and small-to-midsize businesses; it’s not built for large companies and enterprises, however, which may be a bit of a drawback.

Swivle DAM costs from $487/month and offers a 14-day free trial.

MediaBeacon empowers users to drive asset creation, easily find assets, and distribute those assets across teams and departments. Features include a 3D asset view, enforced asset usage and licensing with DRM, searches by Pantone color, asset use and reuse for social posting and branded portals, and more.

The ability to establish custom metadata fields that work with your unique data makes MediaBeacon a flexible digital asset management (DAM) companion for large or small corporations alike. This, plus easy merging with pre-existing systems, is why MediaBeacon excels in the Integration evaluation category of our evaluation criteria segment.

MediaBeacon integrates with Adobe, Sitecore, and Brightcove.

Better branding throughout the UI of MediaBeacon would really take this software up a notch. Also, as noted above, further expanding the list of possible software integrations would definitely make this software more valuable to many enterprises.

MediaBeacon offers customized pricing quotes and offers a free demo.

Libris specializes in website design, WordPress development, and Product Information Management—one of their many characteristics includes the storage and dissemination of digital assets. Their strategy ensures that assets are stored, structured and distributed from a central point for global access.

This tool offers great digital asset management for photographers and other creatives. In this system, photos can be cataloged and searched by keywords, uploaded via phone, protected by passwords, sorted into permission-oriented groups, easily download and share files. In naming all of these perks, the Usability (one of our evaluation criteria flags) is quite nice for Libris.

There aren’t any integrations at this time.

The search functionality could be more robust; in fact, locating and selecting an image came with a variety of difficulties outside of troublesome navigation. Other cons to watch out for include digging through menus to find what you need, inability to tell photo quality until full download, trouble transferring images to Lightbox, and so on.

Libris costs from $3999.00/year and offers a free demo.

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.