Why bother to organize saved media files?
Imagine you’re preparing a major marketing campaign, a product launch, or even a simple internal presentation. You know the perfect image or video exists—you used it just last quarter—but no one can find it. Frustrated, your team spends hours searching, only to settle on recreating the material. This wastes time, duplicates effort, and inflates costs.
Selecting a media bank, such as a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, is more than just choosing a tool—it’s a strategic decision that shapes the future of your organization. A well-chosen MediaBank doesn’t merely address current needs; it evolves alongside your business. This evolution depends on partnership, where a collaborative relationship ensures the system delivers consistent value over time.
A dedicated employee named Maria in a finnish companys small marketing department was given the task of preparing a presentation and a newsletter for the launch of a revolutionary new product. This launch was particularly important because it also marked the debut of the company's brand new look. The pressure was on, and Maria was determined to impress her superiors and make the launch a success.
Approval workflows while producing marketing collateral and product specific documents and images, can provide several benefits used in a Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, such as:
Quality control: By routing assets for approval before they are made available to the rest of the organization, approval workflows can help to ensure that assets are accurate, complete, and of high quality. This can help to improve the overall effectiveness of the organization's communications and branding efforts.
The professional DAM-solution for distribution of mediafiles and content may be called a Media Portal or also Brand Portal, Marketing Portal, Press Portal, Partner Portal or Content Hub. Users can access the Media Portal either using their credentials or in some cases the Media Portal is open for anybody to browse for content.
Depending on the organisations specific needs and the used DAM-solution, (especially if the DAM does not provide a Media Portal), it is better to use Collection Links while sharing files. In this blog we try to open the different advantages of these publishing and distribution solutions.