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.
The hidden costs of ignoring organized digital asset management
The consequences of poor file management, including how it was realised in DAM, can be a huge, short-term motivator where the cost of missed deadlines, brand inconsistencies, and other errors need to be quickly resolved.
Organizing your media files ensures that your valuable assets—images, videos, documents, and graphics—are easy to find, properly tagged, and quickly reusable. When media is stored haphazardly, the result is not only inefficiency but also inconsistent branding and delayed projects.
Think of your media bank as a well-maintained centralised library: when you know exactly where to find each book (or file), you save time, reduce costs, and maintain quality.
Focus on implementing media bank user-centric
Implementing a DAM system is not just about technology—it's about people. All DAM systems should simplify workflows, not create additional burdens. Technology has the potential to drive incredible change, but its success depends on how people interact within the solution, it can make or break a Digital Asset Management initiative.
Executives and IT teams may prioritize system capabilities, integrations, and security. The question arise though, are they focusing on immediate results for the investment at the expense of long-term value and sustainability? Are they motivated by the key users interest for efficiency and ease of use?
Take time to consider user needs
Systems may be implemented without considering user needs or necessary skills, leading to poor adoption and frustration. Without a user-centric approach, teams may feel that the DAM is being imposed rather than designed for them. Take the time to understand how creative users, marketers, and other users work, so that the DAM may be structured in a way that supports rather than hinders productivity.
When implementation teams fail to consider the needs, workflows, and pain points of the users who interact (or should be interacting with the system daily), the result is probably a DAM platform that may be technically sound but practically ineffective.
Reach the ultimate goal with the media bank platform
The media bank platform is all about helping organizations access and distribute the right content at the right moment. Users can quickly find what they’re looking for, while admins get powerful insights and data on usage and needs so everyone can maximize their assets and make a bigger impact.
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Author Rolf Koppatz Rolf is the CEO and consultant at Communication Pro with long experience in DAMs, Managing Visual Files, Marketing Portals, Content Hubs and Computer Vision. Contact me at LinkedIn. |
