DAM: What is Digital Asset Management?

Digital Asset Management

Digital asset management (DAM) consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets. Digital photographs, animations, videos and music exemplify the target-areas of media asset management (a sub-category of DAM). It’s hard to make the case for digital asset management without appearing to relentlessly state the obvious. For instance: marketing today depends heavily on digital media. And time is money. So marketers should spend as much of their digital media time as possible on more productive, profitable tasks and less on … Continue reading

Freak Out, Dude

You folks may have seen the commercial, but you really have to check out the video! I love the Whopper (although I’ve had to cut back to perhaps 1 a month with no mayo). The video really takes off at the 5 minute mark – stick with it. It’s amazing! A huge component of branding is connecting with people’s feelings about a product or service. This is a brilliant campaign to illustrate people’s connection with the Whopper. On the geek side, the video player has an interesting characteristic as well. … Continue reading