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<hr /> <a target="_blank" href="https://cmscritic.com/products/image-relay">Image Relay</a>, a digital asset management (DAM) platform, recently announced the launch of its new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imagerelay.com/digital-proofing">Digital Proofing</a> capabilities. The solution promises to streamline the collaboration, review, and approval cycles for a brand's creative assets – and is integrated into Image Relay’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imagerelay.com/marketing-delivery-features">Marketing Delivery</a> platform. According to the company's press release, Digital Proofing will enable creative teams, marketing departments, and agencies of any size and creative focus to efficiently manage projects and deliver campaign results on accelerated timelines.  “We’re excited about Digital Proofing," said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-olsen-73978646/">Jeff Olsen</a>, Director of Product, Image Relay. "It offers our customers a visually collaborative environment with very streamlined processes for preparing and refining creative brand assets. With Digital Proofing, teams and brands’ external partners can communicate and collaborate like never before, sharing their exact thoughts and requirements alongside the assets themselves – and it’s all within the Marketing Delivery platform that will seamlessly deploy those completed assets to market.”<h3>A single source of truth for all digital assets and product information</h3>When it comes to communication, many teams are still relying on manual review. These processes are notoriously slow and cumbersome, often characterized by long email chains or external platforms that stifle productivity. As a result, campaigns and marketing strategies can be delayed or negatively impacted. Because Digital Proofing is integrated directly into Image Relay's Marketing Delivery and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imagerelay.com/asset-library-features">Asset Library</a>, creative asset management and proofing collaboration happens all in one place. Rather than trying to track versions and describe nuanced change requests across emails or written logs, Digital Proofing establishes a single source of truth, allowing teams to provide detailed and visual feedback directly to assets – whether it's an image, video, PDF, or other file type.  <figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75.1%"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/10/image-relay-screenshot.png" /></figure> In addition, teams working with the same asset can easily add comments, visual cues, and timestamps. They can also tag other editors to call attention to specific feedback. Empowered by precise and contextual communication, this enhanced project visibility results in highly efficient collaboration across both internal teams and external partners.  Digital Proofing includes a powerful versioning feature that enables team members to effortlessly compare different asset versions and review rounds, and to leverage a clear audit trail of past notes and comments. Teams can easily track changes, compare alterations, and implement revisions – enhancing control over the creative process and facilitating more effective decision-making based on accurate and up-to-date information.  <figure class="image image_resized" style="width:75.78%"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/10/image-relay-screenshot-versioning.png" /></figure> Digital Proofing also eliminates delays and difficulties that might arise if a decision maker misses an email or wasn’t CC'ed on a critical message chain. By providing real-time notifications, Digital Proofing helps keep stakeholders in the loop on project progress and key details. <h3>Leveraging Marketing Delivery to improve productivity</h3>Image Relay's Marketing Delivery has already proven its value with customers as a powerful tool for unifying and enhancing digital asset management. Digital Proofing expands on its mission by rendering workflows more efficient and streamlined – and giving creatives greater control and agility throughout the ideation process. “Upgrading from much more manual processes to Marketing Delivery’s modernized, streamlined digital asset management and product information management capabilities is driving our company to around $1M in cost savings and increased productivity,” said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/caleb-brown-7b095a9/">Caleb Brown</a>, the Creative Director at <a target="_blank" href="http://kindersmeats.com/">Kinder’s Sauces and Seasonings</a>, which makes BBQ sauces, marinades, and grilling spices. “The addition of Digital Proofing into Marketing Delivery will further improve how our teams ideate, perfect, and access creative brand assets. We’re excited about even more digital asset communication and workflow efficiency – enabling us to tell consistent and effective brand stories to the market and our brand partners.”

Image Relay Launches New Proofing Solution for Digital Asset Management

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<hr /> DAMs and PIMs have become essential technologies in the digital ecosystem. As brands scale in multiple directions – driven in large part by growth in e-commerce and omnichannel strategies – having a single source of truth for digital assets and product information is proving invaluable.<a target="_blank" href="https://www.imagerelay.com/">Image Relay</a>, a digital asset management (DAM) and product information management (PIM) platform, is streamlining the experience for organizations by making it easier to manage assets and information while connecting with other technologies that complete the customer experience. This week, the company announced a new <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imagerelay.com/platform/integrations/">product integration</a> between its <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imagerelay.com/marketing-delivery-features">Marketing Delivery</a> – an all-in-one DAM and PIM platform – and <a target="_blank" href="https://cmscritic.com/products/shopify">Shopify</a>. “Many of our customers use Shopify as a complete commerce platform that offers the tools they need to successfully grow their businesses,” said <a target="_blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-olsen-73978646/">Jeff Olsen</a>, Director of Product, Image Relay. “As we continued to look for ways to improve our customers’ efficiency and effectiveness in managing their product information and digital assets, developing a direct integration with Shopify became an important initiative. By seamlessly connecting Shopify’s platform to Marketing Delivery, our ecommerce-business customers have a new powerful combination to ensure their product data is up-to-date, accurate, and easily accessible across their workflows.”<h3>Combining the power of DAM and PIM in one platform</h3>Siloed data is a significant challenge for organizations with large caches of digital assets and product information. Launched in April, Image Ready's Marketing Delivery effectively brings all product information and digital assets into a single solution, enabling teams to easily create and share critical information – from product catalogs to one-off reports – with only a few clicks.  Additionally, the platform eliminates cumbersome manual formatting and unwieldy spreadsheets, allowing teams to easily set up as many product channels and export templates as they have delivery outlets. Marketing Delivery then automatically creates perfectly formatted reports that include product data mapped to the attributes required by each delivery outlet. The Shopify integration allows brands to quickly and easily export product information and assets from Marketing Delivery directly into their Shopify storefronts. Companies can also edit and update information in Shopify, import information directly back to Marketing Delivery, ensure teams and partners utilize approved assets only, and provide easy partner access while guaranteeing the consistency of all materials. <h3>A growing range of valuable integrations </h3> Marketing Delivery is fully integrated with many of the most popular marketing, sales, and productivity tools that brands are already using. With a growing list of 40+ integrations, businesses can instantly connect Marketing Delivery with:<ul><li>Asset creation and editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator.</li><li>Collaboration and project management products such as Asana, Basecamp, Evernote, Slack, and Zoom.</li><li>Content file control solutions such as Dropbox, Eventbrite, and Microsoft OneDrive.</li><li>Social platform integrations with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest.</li><li>Expense tracking with Expensify.</li><li>Marketing, sales and service software (connected directly to content) with HubSpot and Salesforce.</li><li>Managed and updated web content via integrations with WordPress and Webflow.</li></ul>

Image Relay Launches Shopify Integration, Streamlining Product and Digital Asset Workflows for Brands

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