Joint customers can now leverage the security and searchability of the Widen Collective within Hootsuite to post content and measure performance across major social networks.

“Everything’s fast now and it’s totally unreasonable,” says comedian John Mulaney. “The world is run by computers. The world is run by robots. And sometimes they ask us if we’re a robot just because we’re trying to log in and look at our own stuff!”

Marketing teams face the opportunities (and temptations) of more channels, more content, and more technology. And thinking about how it all works together to deliver a consistent, effective customer experience can lead to more headaches.

Integration enables marketing teams to ingest user-generated content from TINT into the Widen Collective® with metadata and image rights

We’re thrilled to announce our integration with the social display platform TINT. Mutual customers can now ingest user-generated content (UGC) from social media via TINT directly into the Widen Collective with all the metadata, including image rights. The integration enables brands to easily repurpose UGC for marketing initiatives at scale without the risk of misusing images.

Connector syncs Widen Collective assets in Showpad’s sales enablement platform so that salespeople can access accurate, brand-safe content quickly

I’m so tired of talking about integrations.

There, I said it. Now you say it. Go ahead. I’ll wait.

“I’m so tired of talking about integrations.”

Excellent. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

When engaging in digital business today, marketing organizations need several systems to guide their work functions like file sharing, data management and analysis, and project management. So it’s not unusual for the management of so many systems to quickly become overwhelming with multiple logins, functionality overlaps, isolated files and data, and project bottlenecks.

Nearly half of Americans use digital voice assistants, according to the Pew Research Center. This new channel presents opportunities and challenges for brands, one of which is delivering audio content straight into the home or office via voice command.

Admins spend a lot of time in the Widen Collective®. Whether they’re auditing the system, doing some clean up, adding metadata, or sharing a collection with a colleague, we know they take pride in a well-oiled digital asset management machine. But have you ever wondered what all that DAM work adds up to?

Artificial intelligence, once the invention of science fiction, is quickly changing the status quo for entire industries and businesses, including the world of digital asset management. DAM users of today can now use image recognition technology to help relieve the burden of manually tagging their images. There are many auto-tagging integration options available to DAM vendors, but at Widen, we’ve approached things with our very own special spin.

Digital asset management (DAM) systems provide that central source of truth for your assets. Versioning, governance, and metadata help your teams access the assets they need. But assets aren’t created in the DAM. And the DAM isn’t the platform your audience follows. So how do you take advantage of the structure and control of a DAM system when your assets need to be outside of it to be created and used?

How do you give your teams access to assets in the tools they’ve been using to do their job for years? It's just one of the many questions a DAM admin faces.