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Creating engaging videos that support business objectives is a challenge. And working with videos doesn’t get any easier after they are finished.

Videos are massive files which makes sharing and viewing them using email attachments essentially impossible. Cloud-based DAM systems like the Widen Collective® support video storage, sharing, and viewing. But treating videos just like images and other assets doesn’t provide the best experience for these powerful assets.

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?

The Widen Collective product vision builds on DAM to connect marketing content across the entire content lifecycle, from ideas to analytics. Most importantly, to connect the people and teams to create, manage, and use your content.

We’re really excited about these version 12.0 updates and we think you will be too — since these are heavily influenced by your feedback.

If you’re like many organizations these days, you may be on the hunt for ways to improve and streamline how you curate and promote assets so they better support your marketing stories.

This solution needs to be easy, efficient — and dare we say fun to use (it actually can be fun!).

If this sounds like you, then you might be interested in our Portals app.In this article, we’ll talk about what Portals is and what it does. We’ll also share lots of best practices and design tips to help you get the most out of your Brand Portals.

One challenge many marketing teams face today is sharing large quantities of files in a visual, simple way. Email attachments are limited by file size and FTP can be confusing for less-technically savvy people. Portals not only allow you to share many files at once, but in a visually appealing and branded way.

During our Portals contest, we asked our customers to share an example of how they’re sharing assets with Portals. Here are four great examples of portals and the story behind their use.

New branded Portals enable marketers to curate and share assets with specific groups and track how the content is used

We’ve officially unveiled Portals, a new way to share and track content stored in Widen Collective. Portals enable marketers to curate sets of assets for dealers, franchisees, agencies, and other partners who tell their brand stories.