Canto Digital Asset Management (DAM)
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A wonderful feature packed asset management platform
What do you like best about the product?
It is a great system for keeping a large library that is accessible throughout a large or small origination. It makes keeping assets organized and easily searchable. The face detection has high accuracy and makes searching for individuals in the library quite simple. I really enjoy the Adobe Connector plugin as it is very convenient to have your library directly inside of your software which is time saving step for me and my team. It was very simple to get up and going vs the internal system we had used in the past. I work with this system daily as I am the only photographer for our organization. Canto is always there if you have any questions and they walked me though how to use the system to get up and going quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Though I understand the system is completive with similar software, the pricing is quite high, and the extra AI features they offer come at a hefty cost as well.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto helps keep us organized and allows us to access our 42,000 photos and our brand assets at the click of a button. We also have department photo stewards that are able to access our assets in order to ensure we have quality representing our organization.
new user
What do you like best about the product?
Cool tech, I do like the way it work to simplify files and categorizing for users
What do you dislike about the product?
not real helpful in establishing the system . its not intuitive unless your a tech guy. Took 2 months and im still not up
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
consolidating all assets and mass contributing assets
Mostly positive experience
What do you like best about the product?
Coming from Brandfolder, Canto has it beat in terms of customization control and the ability to preview assets visually in a unique way. The bulk metadata feature works great for what we do. We enjoy the slider tools for filtering media by length. We haven't used the Visual AI feature but it looks promising and would be ideal as a default option in the plan, making this platform more enticing for new teams and migrating users from other DAMs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Search UI needs real improvement. The tools to narrow down your global searches are hidden in a small menu in the corner *after* the search bar and are not obvious to our users how they work. Adoption is everything in this game when building a DAM for a company, so making it very clear how to search (and clear searches in a way that just works) is essential, and lacking in this case.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We appreciate the instant visual information Canto provides. Files that were stuck on hard drives or cloud drives suddenly have new life. As a marketing team, being able to see the assets in multiple ways creates opportunities to find things quickly, rather than hunting through folders.
It’s a solid DAM system.
What do you like best about the product?
Canto is a solid DAM system. It manages digital assets well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The platform and design feel dated. The lack of customizing external facing sites for clients is a letdown.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It gives us a place to store digital assets that we share amongst our company and with clients.
Canto - USA Pulses replaces current DAM with a more powerful CANTO system
What do you like best about the product?
We had an exsisting system - we loved it, but the system was blocked by US government office. In searching for a replacement, CANTO passed that test. We now realize the facial recognition is going to be super helpful for us.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is not as well designed. And our past system created a system alert for recently pending status assets. That is missing in Canto.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Govenerment user access
Facial recognition - is not allowed with EU based system I was using before
Portals
Facial recognition - is not allowed with EU based system I was using before
Portals
Easy to use, organizational tool for asset management!
What do you like best about the product?
We use Canto for managing digital assets for several clients and love the ease of use, organization and how we can collaborate. The feature to share is frequently used!
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish we could add more admins but it comes with an additional cost. But by no means a deal breaker.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto allows us to easily organize photoshoot images that will be used in digital assets. The tagging and folders features allows us to better organize images by department, most frequently used, mark any as "do not use", etc. We can then quickly go back and search by the tags, creating efficiencies in the way we manage assets.
A great platform to house all your content in one place.
What do you like best about the product?
My experience with this platform has been nothing but positive. One of my favorite features in Canto is how easy it is to manage file updates. I can simply replace an existing file without needing to delete or reupload anything, and all the previous versions are stored in the version history for easy reference. This makes asset management incredibly efficient. It’s intuitive and saves me a lot of time when uploading and sorting content.
As a creative designer using Canto daily, I rely on it heavily throughout my workflow. It’s a dependable resource I constantly reference while developing new materials. On top of that, the customer support team is always quick to respond and very helpful whenever I need assistance. Canto is extremely user friendly, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone managing a large volume of digital assets across teams or departments.
As a creative designer using Canto daily, I rely on it heavily throughout my workflow. It’s a dependable resource I constantly reference while developing new materials. On top of that, the customer support team is always quick to respond and very helpful whenever I need assistance. Canto is extremely user friendly, and I’d highly recommend it to anyone managing a large volume of digital assets across teams or departments.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only area of Canto that I find slightly inconvenient is the need to create albums within folders, rather than being able to drop files directly into a folder. That said, I understand this structure supports better organization, so I wouldn't necessarily change it. Another thing that would be helpful is when you delete files if you are able to just delete a version versus the whole item.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Canto has made a big impact by helping our team stay aligned with the most up-to-date content. It's easy to track when assets were uploaded or last updated, which reduces confusion and the risk of using outdated materials. The recent addition of their AI search tool has also made it much easier to locate specific assets quickly. Another benefit is how much storage space it saves on my computer. Since everything is stored in Canto, I can simply download what I need for a project and remove it afterward, knowing I can always access it again when needed.
Easy to use and many features still yet to be utilized
What do you like best about the product?
The search functionality and facial recognition for tagging of photos.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not many downsides that I have experienced.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use Adobe Indesign and the Canto plugin makes it easy to link photos.
Solid & Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about canto is the reliability. At the end of the day I need a system that is operating and consistent and that is what canto is I do like the way that it's organized and I also really appreciate the brand new AI feature that let you do a visual search. A lot of times guest users for my organization don't know or understand how we've organized our system and having the option for them to do a visual search is really helpful.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am a person who really likes the ability to customize software that I use for my preferences I feel like there are some buttons associated with the user interface that aren't in the most convenient places and often hard to find. I would love to be able to customize my own interface and move buttons around to improve the ease of use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work at a midsize university and we take a lot of photos and we need to keep almost everything that we shoot. It can be extremely difficult keeping yourself organized when you're trying to archive an organize tens of thousands of photos every year. Trying to do this yourself, whether on a local network drive or a simple cloud storage service, can be done if all you're trying to do is keep a copy - but if you need to access your files both internally as a team as well as with your partners across your organization and be able to find what you need quickly then you have to have a robust tool like Canto. We also need the ability to share albums of photos quickly where we only include a specific selection of photos for use and Canto excels at this.
Great tool for Graphic Design
What do you like best about the product?
The Canto Connector for Adobe Plugin, along with the customer support. The plugin has allowed for quick updating of images across multiple users on all of our marketing material. Along with helping channel the right assets to certain teams. The customer support has been great, and helped us integrate the digital asset management system into our current workflow. While also willing to help continue that support a year out.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be great if there was an easier way to filter downloads on the reporting end by the metadata of images. Or to pull reports only on certain images, albums, or folders.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Managing photos and assets for use in marketing and communications throughout our organization.
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