Canto Other Services (except Public Administration) Reviews & Insights

Canto is used to organize final versions of assets for the organization. We use Canto to easily search for assets, label relationships between assets, track analytics on the viewing and downloading of assets, share assets, receive assets, etc. We also use Canto's style guide template to share information within the organization, such as branding and guides for using Canto. We also create share links to share assets in the workspaces of the PAT portal through Sitefinity.

Canto is an excellent tool for organizing assets and searching for them in one location. I also really enjoy using the mobile version of Canto on my smartphone when I am on the go. Canto is robust and fast and it has been a major advancement in the way that my organization stores and shares assets.

We use Canto as a place to sort all of our digital asset. As an organization that has a lot of historical documents, Canto is a great place for us to digitally store photos, pdfs, videos, and so much more. It also is a great asset for our organization since half of us work remotely.

Canto is really helpful when we need to give access to digital content to third party vendors. The ability to create specific links and folders for them and customize what they can do with the content is super useful, especially when dealing with copyrighted materials. I think it is possible for Canto to be less useful depending on the types of content you are working with. For us, it's perfect but I could see situations where certain file types might not work well within Canto.

We used Canto for our marketing department Dam system. We liked that it was cloud based. It was being used to handle our photos, PDFs, and Videos. Our goal was to move approved assets off a local file server to a solution that was easier to search, tag, and organize our files for our team and our entire organization. We had about 2000 assets in the DAM.

It was good for a basic DAM solution. It worked off a file storage UX so for many people it would be a very familiar workflow. It was easy to add tags, and other info to files. Unfortunately the performance and UX/UI was not well suited for large asset libraries which made going through a lot of assets a pain. The file sharing solutions were not well handled. Overall the system felt very dated.

Canto is used by the [...] across the national organization and Chapters to manage digital assets for publishing photos, images, and other creative assets for collaboration, to maintain copyrights, and digital communications.

I think Canto is very well suited to small, medium, and large organizations with the need for collecting and managing digital assets to scale. In my experience, it is a very powerful tool that requires training, onboarding and support depending on the experience of the user community and use case.

Canto helps store, organize, optimize, and share out our reports and collateral pieces, including images, videos, and other documents, internally and externally.

Great for tagging and organizing content. I wish there was a way to better optimize the viewing experience for an external audience - i.e., create mini webpages of sorts that do not look technical or back end for select audiences like VIP donors or executives. For now, the visuals look more technical and would be too overwhelming to send to older recipients.

We use Canto as a photo and permissions database. It addresses the lack of a centralized database.

Canto is great for an asset search database to track permissions and resize. I wish it would be a bit more useful as a multimedia storytelling and tracking repository, with the ability to easily reach out to content owners.

We use Canto mainly as storage for our files, to share images with donors, and other departments or external partners, and to create portals for nonprofits to access materials during community events.

Canto is good for sharing files and creating boundaries around the share links. It is good for storing files and the search function works well within the Library. The share links could use some work, and this is where our team spends a lot of our time within Canto. It would be nice is Share Links were customizable links, and if it were easier to search for past share links, via a search bar within the Collection Links section.

My organization uses CANTO to collect, structure, store, and distribute content (pictures, videos, stories, publications) and, to a lesser extent coordinate and plan content use for external and internal communication. The system is optimized for quick and easy access from nearly every country we work from (mainly Africa and Europe), and it can be worked with from computers as well as tablets and mobile phones. The interface (filters, albums, presets, ...) is highly customizable, which is great, but it also means a clear idea of the structure you want to set up before starting to work is a good idea. Users can communicate on the platform itself with comments and save their own searches and collections. The main functions the majority of our users currently use are making "best of" collections and sending links to (often large) files to internal and external contacts. CANTO also has a style guide function, which is also very handy to share e.g., with external designers. The CANTO customer support is very responsive. Even if some issues cannot be resolved right away, you always get an answer (from a real person, not a bot). I also like the tutorials library on their website. Among the few things, I would improve are the ways in which user groups can collaborate.

CANTO is well suited if you, like us, have a large team with members across several countries, a large pool of assets, and your colleagues need to find specific content fast. It is also well suited if you work a lot with external contacts and as an archive for past materials, campaigns, and reports... that need to stay accessible for internal use. You need to dedicate a full-time position to managing and maintaining the database for an organization of the medium size and to train your employees on how to use it (believe me). CANTO is not well suited - in my opinion - for smaller teams or if you use your content only once or twice and then move on to entirely new campaigns. I would also not use it for dynamic content (like word documents that are still commented on and being rewritten).

We use Canto across our entire organization of six core staff and over 200 volunteers. In addition, we use it with our partner organizations and vendors.

Extremely useful for finding photos of things and people across our vast library of photo and video media.

Our Communications team uses Canto to store and organize our photos for different campaigns. We share photos across our organization and with folks outside our organization regularly. Canto helps us to quickly find photos using the search function, allows us to have people outside our team upload and download photos, and helps us only share what we need to.

Canto is well suited for situations where I need to collect photos from several people outside my organization - I can create an upload link. It's also well suited for sharing a collection of photos with people outside my team or outside my organization. It's less appropriate when I need to collaborate with a large group outside my organization in a way that folks need to share photos (upload) and download photos from the same space.