Canto provides marketing teams with the simplest, yet most powerful DAM system on the market. Brands across all industries trust Canto to organize, secure and share visual brand assets with ease. It gives your team the power to easily tag, collaborate and report on company-wide digital assets in a visual environment. Canto has over 25 years of experience in the digital asset management industry and thousands of brands around the world rely on us to centralize their rich media libraries.
| Support | Business Hours Online | Customer Type | Large Enterprises Medium Business Small Business |
| API | Location / Phone Number | California, United States / +1 (415) 495-6545 | |
| Deployment | SaaS/Web/Cloud Mobile - iOS Installed - Windows Installed - Mac | Category | Digital Asset Management Software |
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Canto is Digital Asset Management Software. Canto offers the following functionalities:
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Yes, Canto provides API.
What do you like best?
Canto has robust search-ability, makes every day more efficient, and is a professional way to share assets externally. It is user friendly, and makes it easy to upload, tag, download, and share assets.
What do you dislike?Nothing - I've found it to be incredibly user friendly and have all the features I need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Build a robust tagging taxonomy, and have a plan for asset organization going into implementation.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Streamlined asset management and sharing. Improved asset sharing externally.
What do you like best?
Canto is exactly what they said, it's easy to use, it's supported well, and the cost is extremely competitive. In addition to all those factors you also see the features that most of their competitors are charging additional fees for.
What do you dislike?The only real limitations that I've run into Weir band with and that was more to do with the environment that users were in then the actual application.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?What are the biggest issues is sharing video and high-quality images with my team members. Canto as a data asset management system allows us to do this in a very dynamic way. It also allows us to tag the contents with clean metadata it's very searchable. Both of these factors have increased our ability to rapidly deploy contents via the web and social media.
What do you like best?
I love that we're able to customize the platform to what we need so easily. We mainly use it to organize, store, and manage our extensive collection of in-house photos and marketing collateral, and it has been a great resource for that!
What do you dislike?Nothing really - the legwork of setting it up was extensive, but totally worth it to have a system that works perfectly for us!
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?When we need a photo of an inventory item in use, we no longer are digging through files and files to find the perfect one. Instead, we're easily able to search by item or photographer or location and save SO MUCH TIME!
What do you like best?
I really like how easy it is for our team and external partners to share assets. In the past, each area of the business had their own way of sharing, and often times, the latest and most up to date assets weren't being used. This allows our team to stay super organized.
What do you dislike?I wish there was more flexibility on how folders were displayed. Currently, they're displayed vertically, by date.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?The sharing of assets within the organization has been totally optimized. We're the most organized we've ever been in this area.
What do you like best?
I love how easy it is to search for our assets. We had no asset management system before Canto, so using it is a breath of fresh air. We are very intentional about how we tag and describe our content (mainly photos and videos) so they're easy to look up in the future.
What do you dislike?I don't like how long it is to do large uploads. Also, some of the details disappear and/or are replaced during batch uploads.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Double-check how much space you need and how many people will be using the software. From there slowly build up the content before deploying companywide.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?We are using Canto for saving space with our photos and videos, helping with organization and searching for assets, and document control
What do you like best?
Before Canto we housed all of our visual content (photos, videos, etc.) on a server that was slow to load previews and made it difficult to access. Canto has made our content browsing both faster and more enjoyable.
What do you dislike?We haven't used Canto for a very long time yet so at the moment nothing comes to mind.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?We are able to have wider internal use of our assets and a significantly easier time searching, previewing, and downloading. The ability to also provide links to outside groups as well as the many other tagging and keyword features are improving our processes.
What do you like best?
Easy to use and very secure. Originals stay in the Vault and are safe from users changes/removal. Key wording and meta data are easy to set up and use.
What do you dislike?Slight learning curve. Some users who are not familiar with DAM systems may has a slow start but do get up and running soon.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Canto has a discount for Nonprofits.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?I implemented Canto into the design workflow at Honda R&D about 15 years ago to manage our tens of thousands of film and digital files of cars, motorcycles. We needed a secure way to store and retrieve our assets , Canto was the solution. I have since helped Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center implement Canto to manage their image assets.
What do you like best?
Flight by Canto is so intuitive, I was able to use it instantly without a second of training. Drag and drop uploading, easy sharing, it's really a remarkable product!
What do you dislike?It would be great if they had an app. They could also have more ability to define permissions for individual users instead of categories of users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:Do not hesitate. I evaluated many different options and Flight is head and shoulders above them. Nothing that I considered compared. And it's a great value.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Sharing both within the organization and externally has been enhanced greatly. It's a huge improvement over the method that we were using before. It has definitely made other staff members more independent.
What do you like best?
Canto's administration tools are awesome and allow users to easily be managed with regards to rights/privileges. User sign ups are quite easy as the user can self register.
What do you dislike?There's a bit of a learning curve with regards to mass tagging. But, with that being said, once you understand the concept behind meta-tagging in bulk, it makes for a very powerful tool. If you're a decent excel user, you should be fine when it comes to this task.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?Internal storage confusion has complete gone away. Now, our small team has a single source for digital assets with numerous ways to finding the resource in need. Time isnt being wasted and frustration levels are greatly reduced. Plus, our external stakeholders are becoming more and more self-reliant when harvesting digital properties.
What do you like best?
Easy to use and simplifies our team's workflow accessing assets
What do you dislike?The UI/UX experience could be improved nominally.
Recommendations to others considering the product:We reviewed several options, and Canto was easily the best.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?We're solving the challenge of having to find specific assets in proposals, pitches, and presentations. Canto simplifies that across our team.
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