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Technology

Can AI Do That For Us?

AI algorithms can help to complement human efforts by providing consistency, speed, and scalability to the process of tagging digital assets. When your DAM program embraces human intelligence married with artificial intelligence you can create a magical, cost-effective combination. This can be extremely fruitful to your DAM program as long as you understand the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches.
Culture

5 Ways to Grow a Small Business Through a People-Focused Approach

Heading into our 5th year of business, the team at Stacks wanted to reflect on the ways we've grown. In this article, we share 5 ways that putting people at the center of everything our company does has helped us grow to where we are now.
Culture

The 5 Most Important Digital Asset Management Roles and Responsibilities

People in any organization, on any team, and running any program need to understand their role in the initiative and the responsibilities they are accountable for. This allows employees freedom and ownership to grow the program and elevate issues that arise. Learn the most critical DAM-related roles today!
Creative

How does Digital Asset Management (DAM) Apply to Creative Operations?

The job of creating compelling and on-brand content, consistently, in the correct format, and in a place others can easily find it is often overwhelming to individual creatives. Learn how digital asset management (DAM), its strategies, principles, and best practices can support your creative teams and ensure that content strategy and brand guidelines are easy to follow.
Culture

7 Tips for Finding and Applying for Digital Asset Management Jobs

With the ever-changing state of the job market and the rise of digital asset management's value to many organizations, finding the right digital asset management (DAM) job, applying, and getting an offer is difficult. Stacks works with brands big and small that with needs in this area and offers a few ideas for making yourself stand out in the process.
Culture

How the Future of Remote Work Impacts Your Digital Asset Management Decisions Today

Remote work isn't going anywhere. Employers and employees alike have experienced the freedom and flexibility it offers now that technology has made the dream a reality. Supporting a remote workforce isn't without its challenges, however, for individuals and organizations alike. Read more to learn what the future may hold and begin preparing your organization to face what comes next.
Culture

How to Fill Your Open Digital Asset Management (DAM) Positions

As the importance of digital asset management becomes more and more prevalent across industries and brands, the need for DAM professionals does too. Learn how plan for and hire the perfect fit for the digital asset management role your company has need for using Stacks' best practices for filling your open DAM positions.
Partners

Community Care: Why Authentic Storytelling Matters Most

As all of us have continued to navigate the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on our world, one thing has become clear: authentic, meaningful storytelling is what our world needs most from individuals and brands alike. Our partners at PhotoShelter spoke with several brands about how they took this lesson to heart as they sought to share their mission and the stories of the humans behind their brands with the world. Read more to learn how authentic, human-first, meaningful storytelling allows you to make genuine connections with consumers and other brands.
Partners

How 5 Brands Fans Love Used Their DAM Programs to Market a Rebrand

Our partners at PhotoShelter asked 5 unique, beloved brands how they navigated a rebrand to grow their fanbase and drive success. If you or your team is thinking of tuning your branding, read more today to make the most of the opportunity and connect with consumers in a fresh way.
Partners

Tips for Optimizing Your Digital Asset Management Workflows from the Sports Industry’s Top Creatives

Our friends at PhotoShelter took time to ask photographers from across the sports industry their tips and tricks for optimizing their workflows for delivering, finding, and using the digital assets they produce to generate value for their organizations. Read more today!
Culture

Partner Blog: Why DAM Isn't Just for Marketers

IntelligenceBank shows the value a healthy DAM program can provide to teams beyond marketing in this informative blog. Check it out to see which use cases apply to your organization in ways you may not have thought of before.
DAM Management

3 Ways to Determine Your Unique DAM Requirements

You may know the baseline metrics that make up the health score of a DAM program, but do you know your organization's unique DAM needs? Are you managing your DAM in a proactive or reactive way?
Culture

Tips for Convincing Your Organization of the Value of DAM

You may know that your organization needs a healthy, scalable DAM program, but convincing others that the time and money required to build it is worth it can be difficult. We lay out some best practices for building buy-in across the business of the value of DAM.
Partners

Partner Webinar: How to Manage Your DAM

In this webinar, we join IntelligenceBank's Suzie Fountain, Customer Success Team Lead, to talk about how to manage your DAM. Maddy Synoground and Andrea Barrera, our DAM Managers, discuss how to plan, set-up and manage your DAM to ensure you are getting the most out of it.
Culture

6 Basic Rules for Tidying Up Your DAM

Ever wished Marie Kondo could gain some digital asset management expertise overnight to help you organize your DAM system? This article aims to be the next most useful thing by applying Kondo's 6 rules for Tidying Up to the world of DAM.
DAM Best Practices

How DAM Enables Secure File Sharing No Matter Your Platform

Sharing files is a vital piece of almost every workflow nowadays, especially in the era of remote work. Learn here how to share files securely and effectively no matter what systems you use through DAM processes and best practices.
Culture

Is Digital Asset Management Consulting Worth It?

Consulting for any field can be a large financial and time investment. Make sure that investment is worthwhile by taking a few steps beforehand and identifying the perfect time to bring in third-party expertise.
Partners

DAM Resources to Empower and Energize Your Branding Efforts

With branding efforts growing increasingly important to customer engagement and retention, and depending more and more on compelling content, digital asset management practices also grow in importance. Use these resources to optimize your DAM program to ensure a flourishing brand.
Culture

How DAM Helps You Identify and Communicate Your Core Values

Core values are the secret ingredient that makes everything in your organization run more smoothly, but they don't just apply internally. Consumers want to see and know your core values as well. Learn how DAM can help you identify and communicate your values in an authentic way.
DAM 101

How Digital Asset Management Saved Christmas: A Stacks Story

Stories are great ways to identify how we can solve our own problems, as well as bring some much-needed cheer to the office. Read how Santa's elves used DAM to save Christmas this past year.
DAM Management

Managing Rights and Permissions in Digital Asset Management

Do you know who created your assets, when they created them, when and where you can use them, and how to give the proper credit? Is your team able to quickly know which assets are approved and which aren't? If not, learn how to use your DAM system to get on top of and stay on top of rights management.
DAM Best Practices

3 “DAM Therapy” Practices to Avoid Breaking Up with Your DAM

Due to the cost and headache of breaking up with your current tools and methods of managing digital assets, it's worth it to put time into running your organization through "DAM Therapy". Get thoughts out in the open, identify challenges, and create a plan for change.
Creative

Streamlining Creative Workflows with Digital Asset Management

Are you relying on technology designed for communication or project management to handle digital asset management duties? Odds are it's slowing you down. Learn how a scalable DAM program can save your creative team precious time.
Culture

How Do I Get My Team to Use Our DAM?

Just like that ugly, ill-fitting sweater you get for Christmas, DAM systems sometimes sit in the closet unused, despite the time, money, and energy invested in building them. Learn how to motivate your end-users to adopt new and improved systems.
Culture

Why Stacks?

Learn the history, mission, and vision of Stacks from our founder and CEO, Casey Templeton.
Creative

5 Ways Photographers Help Their Clients Beyond Producing Stunning Images

Stacks explores the five ways photographers can help their clients more than just producing stunning images. Let's dive in.
DAM 101

What We Have Learned about Digital Asset Management from COVID-19

To set your brand up for a new, post-pandemic landscape, learn why now is the perfect time to be incorporating DAM into your workflow.
Technology

The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Asset Management

In digital asset management, the Artificial Intelligence vs Humans debate continues to gather steam as the machines get smarter and smarter.
DAM Management

How Good Governance Unlocks the Potential of DAM

Establishing solid governance in your Digital Asset Management system is important for its sustained health now and in the future.
DAM Management

What Makes Good DAM Management?

DAM Management is the process of planning, organizing, operating, and maintaining your DAM system. Without it, you won't the most out of DAM.
Culture

Best Practices for Managing a Remote Team & How DAM Can Help

Managing a remote team has its own set of challenges. Ensure you have the best tools to grow your workflow from your living rooms.
Culture

10 Ways to Build Buy-In for DAM

Establishing standards with stakeholders and keeping end-users in mind helps to quickly build buy-in across all levels of your organization.
Planning and Strategy

Best Practices for Setting SMAART DAM Goals

Without specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-sensitive DAM goals, your system lacks direction.
Planning and Strategy

Identifying the 5 Types of DAM Stakeholders

Stakeholders can make or break a project. It is important to get their feedback and create a system that meets their needs. So, who are they?
Planning and Strategy

Who are DAM End-Users & Why Do They Matter?

End-Users are important components of the DAM system, as they make, search for, and put assets to use. Learn how to identify and manage them.
Culture

Best Practices for Using DAM to Unify your Organization

DAM systems have the potential to get the most out of your organization’s assets, as well as to unify all your teams and departments.
DAM Management

Responsibilities of a DAM Manager

If you are looking for a DAM manager for your organization, define what responsibilities they have and what skills they need to fulfill them.
DAM Management

Best Practices for Managing DAM Permissions

Security is a core principle of DAM. In order to keep your assets safe, learn how to manage permissions for users within and without.
Culture

Building a DAM to Tell Your Brand's Story

From top to bottom, your brand's processes and workflows should reflect your story, ensuring that your customers see a consistent story.
DAM Management

The Benefits and Challenges of DAM Platforms

DAM 101

10 Things to do Before Searching for a DAM Platform

DAM platforms are very valuable and important if you want to expand and scale your organization's overall DAM program. However, there are activities your team can take to ensure that the people and processes surrounding the platform are prepared.