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Most DAM metadata fails for the same reason: teams try to capture everything. If you ask users to fill 40 fields at upload, they'll complete 10 and guess on three, eroding the quality of the whole library. It's ineffective on two fronts: the process is overwhelming for humans, and the schema is built around classification categories instead of business outcomes. The shifts that make metadata hold up at scale: every field has to earn its place by serving at least one measurable outcome, and AI should enrich metadata at ingest by suggesting tags and descriptions for completeness and consistency. There are five outcomes worth designing around: 1. Discovery: Can people actually find the asset? 2. Governance: Is it safe to use in terms of rights and compliance? 3. Reuse: Does it connect to future work so nobody rebuilds what already exists? 4. Automation & intelligence: Can workflows and AI act on it? 5. Orchestration: Does it route content through review, approval, and distribution? A few things that separate metadata that scales from metadata that degrades over time: ▪ High-value fields like rights status, approval status, and expiration date need controlled vocabularies. Enforced dropdowns, not free-text tags. Consistency is what makes a field usable at scale. ▪ Retire fields as you add them. Metadata bloat is a slow failure that compounds in the background. ▪ Low quality metadata hampers AI readiness. No model can reliably tell you what's approved, what's rights-cleared, or what's expired without reliable metadata underneath it. The payoff is measurable: Gartner projects that by 2027, organizations with active metadata management will deliver new data assets up to 70% faster than those without it. (Gartner, Market Guide for Active Metadata Management) At scale, metadata stops being a filing system and becomes the operational layer your workflows, governance, and AI all depend on. Dive deeper into how to design fields that survive scale here: https://lnkd.in/ej95T7sM

DAM NEWS recently published an analysis of their interview with our CEO, Brian McLaughlin. If you missed the full interview or you’re too busy to take a look, get the top takeaways for how to think about digital asset management to maximize its value for your organization: 1. DAM's value isn't storage, it's intelligence. As Brian puts it: "DAM is not about storing files. It is about capturing the intelligence around content." That means metadata, versions, rights, usage, and performance data, which create the context that lets both people and AI agents manage content with confidence at scale. 2. The next phase of DAM is agentic. Brian sees two converging shifts ahead: adaptiveness and autonomy. Rather than passive storage, DAM becomes an active fabric where agents, workflows, and APIs handle content orchestration and governance in the background across the full content supply chain. 3. Scale and simplicity don't have to be at odds. For large, regulated enterprises, the real challenge is keeping content operations reliable and compliant without slowing teams down. Brian's view: the right DAM architecture resolves that tension instead of forcing a trade-off. See more in the analysis: https://hubs.li/Q04q5jR_0  #DigitalAssetManagement #DAM #ContentOperations #OrangeLogic #EnterpriseContent

Every brand has a story to tell. So does Orange Logic. For nearly 30 years, we've powered the content operations behind some of the world's most important brands — helping them innovate faster, harness AI, and orchestrate content at scale across increasingly complex digital ecosystems. Today, we're introducing a refreshed Orange Logic brand: one that better reflects who we are, what we do, and where we're going. By combining authentic client imagery with a confident, modern design system, we're shifting the focus from the software to the brands we help power every day. Because Orange Logic isn't just managing content. It's powering the brands behind it. Built on the trust, scale, and performance our customers rely on today — and designed to help them lead tomorrow. #BrandRefresh #ContentOrchestration #DigitalAssetManagement #AgenticAI

Most teams evaluating a DAM are asking the wrong question. They line up feature checklists and compare libraries. But the problem they're actually feeling isn't "where do our assets live?" It's "why does the work around our assets keep breaking?" That's the line between two different things: - DAM manages assets. Where they're stored, how they're tagged, who can access them. - Content orchestration, which manages the work around them. Intake, metadata, workflow routing, rights validation, localization, distribution, reporting, reuse. The full lifecycle, connected. Why it matters: - 84% of marketing leaders report high collaboration drag (Gartner, 2024): the manual handoffs, inconsistent metadata, and reactive governance that a static library can't fix. - Those same teams are 37% less likely to hit revenue and profit targets (Gartner, 2024). Fragmentation drags teams and critical business outcomes alike. - Only 7% of enterprises say their data is fully ready for AI (HBR/Cloudera, 2026). AI needs governed context to deliver the efficiencies it promises: rights, approvals, workflow status, and performance signals that stay connected to the asset. Three questions cut through the noise: 1. Do you mainly need to govern assets? A DAM covers it. 2. Do you need to coordinate work across teams and stages? That's content orchestration. 3. Do you need both, connected as one operating layer? Most enterprises do. The honest answer is usually "both." A library tells you where a file is. An operating layer keeps content, metadata, rights, and approvals connected from planning through archive, so the work moves and AI has trustworthy data to act on. Stop asking whether you need DAM or content orchestration. Start building the governed layer that connects them. We unpack the full framework here: https://lnkd.in/drXuqUEU

Your digital asset management platform can set your organization up for success today and tomorrow, but only if you know how things are changing. Our CEO, Brian McLaughlin, sat down with DAM NEWS to share what you need to know now if you’re keeping up with the space: 1. DAM is shifting from passive storage to an active layer. The old model treated DAM as a library: a place to file things away. The shift underway treats DAM as infrastructure that connects content directly to business outcomes. Put another way, it’s not just where content lives, but how it gets used. 2. Governance can't be bolted on after the fact. In Brian's experience, the biggest gaps in enterprise content operations happen when teams assume someone else owns risk. For example, Marketing assumes IT has it, IT assumes legal has it. Governance only holds up when it's built into the workflow from day one, not added as an afterthought. 3. Outcomes should drive the technology, not the other way around. Brian's view, shaped by 25 years on both sides of DAM (as a user and now as an industry leader): a capability only earns its place if it measurably improves efficiency, governance, collaboration, or content performance. Novelty for its own sake isn't the bar. Keep this in mind as you’re managing your own DAM. There's more in the full conversation, including Brian’s take on where DAM has gone wrong in his own experience, and where organizations are seeing the most success. If you’re ready to go deeper, read it here: https://lnkd.in/eW97WDkM #DigitalAssetManagement #DAM #ContentOperations #OrangeLogic #EnterpriseContent

I was fortunate to be joined on stage last week at #HenryStewartDAM EU by Michael Saffan (DAM Maestro) with #PentlandBrands to share their journey implementing and leveraging @orangelogic as the enablement technology bringing light to the incredible history across their brands including #speedo, #mitre, #berghaus, #canterbury, #kickers, #elesse, #endura, #redordead, and #kangaROOS. This was Michael’s first time as a conference speaker but it certainly won’t be his last. Within minutes of stepping off stage he had already been invited to speak at #HenryStewartDAMAustralia Michael is charismatic and engaging, he delivered his insights and expertise with confidence, clarity, and genuine warmth. Michael has a high bar, for himself, the work, and those of us lucky enough to work alongside him. The outcome is something worth sharing to help others achieve a similar goal to unlock the opportunity within the archives. Katie Greenyer - thank you for letting us borrow him!

Lionsgate creates content at a relentless pace. The opportunity for a team that prolific? Seeing the full scope of what they've built — all in one place. That's what their marketing operation unlocked with Orange Logic. Steven Scruggs, VP of Business Operations Integrated Services, in our new video: "We always knew we had a lot of content out there... the biggest thing for us was the visibility into what we had." With everything centralized, the team gained a complete view of their library — and the ability to make sharp, intentional decisions about it, which translated into reduced storage and reduced costs. When a prolific team can see everything it's made, it makes better decisions. ▶️ View the full case study: https://hubs.li/Q04mmvdG0

Congratulations to the New York Philharmonic on launching the newly rebuilt Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives. This remarkable modernization effort makes more than 4 million pages of musical history dating back to 1842 accessible through a powerful new digital experience, including over 5,000 newly available scores and parts. We're honored that the New York Philharmonic selected Orange Logic as the platform powering this next chapter for one of the world's most important cultural collections. By replacing a custom-built legacy system, the new archive provides a scalable foundation for preserving and sharing generations of musical heritage with researchers, musicians, and audiences around the globe. A huge congratulations to the New York Philharmonic team and everyone who contributed to bringing this vision to life. #OrangeLogic #DigitalArchives #CulturalHeritage #DigitalAssetManagement #NewYorkPhilharmonic