Find the right digital asset management (DAM) solution for your organisation
Asset Bank and ResourceSpace are digital asset management platforms used to organise, manage and share digital content. Both offer the core features expected from a DAM, but they deliver a different day-to-day experience.
This page compares Asset Bank and ResourceSpace side-by-side, helping you decide which platform is better suited to your marketing team, governance requirements and content workflows.
Asset Bank combines a familiar folder hierarchy with metadata, search and collections. Teams can reflect the way they already work – by brand, campaign, department, region or product – while retaining powerful search and filtering. Asset Bank's customer, Telenor, greatly appreciate the folder structure that Asset Bank offers.
“We really like the folder approach,” says Telenor's director of multimedia, Henrik Sigmundstad.
ResourceSpace relies more heavily on metadata and collections. Its featured collections can provide navigational shortcuts, but Asset Bank’s folders give occasional users a clearer starting point.
Duplicate detection and bulk tagging can also happen during upload, reducing the clean-up needed once files are in the image library.
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Asset Bank is built to help marketing teams use assets confidently and stay compliant. Usage rights, licence terms, required credits, regional restrictions and expiry dates can remain connected to the relevant assets and be shown when users preview or download them.
Consent forms, model releases and permission records can be linked directly to multiple images or videos. If consent expires or is withdrawn, administrators can identify and control the affected content quickly.
ResourceSpace clients can use metadata, permissions, dates and collections to support these workflows.
Asset Bank brings the controls together in a more direct, compliance-focused experience.
Asset Bank gives administrators granular control over who can view, edit, upload, download and share content. Rules can reflect teams, departments, brands, partners or territories, helping organisations keep restricted content in the right hands.
Administrators can also manage notification behaviour centrally rather than relying on every user to configure important alerts correctly.
For external distribution, Asset Bank offers password-protected collections and structured Sharing Portals – an organised, branded destination for agencies, partners, distributors and journalists.
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Asset Bank’s onboarding combines tailored setup, data migration, administrator training and ongoing support. The implementation team helps transfer files and metadata, configure the system and prepare administrators for launch.
ResourceSpace’s hosted packages include consultant-led onboarding, configuration and administrator training, but no asset and data migration.
For teams with a large existing library, Asset Bank’s explicit asset migration support can reduce internal workload and create a smoother path to adoption.
Asset Bank is highly configurable, and is known for its intuitive interface. Asset Bank configures the platform alongside an organisation, so it is specifically tailored to each instance. Most organisations are fully operational within weeks.
ResourceSpace is open source, so it offers very flexible configuration, but this can require additional setup time and technological skills to align the system with day-to-day workflows.
ResourceSpace do not offer asset migration services, so customers have to migrate and upload all their assets by themselves.
Asset Bank works alongside clients to deliver the full asset and data migration process, including metadata mapping. This reduces clients' internal workload and the risk of losing important information.
Asset Bank includes governance tools such as version control, approval workflows, usage rights and licence tracking, consent management, and granular permission controls to help organisations protect brand integrity and ensure assets are used correctly.
ResourceSpace supports configurable asset management workflows and permission controls across a wide range of use cases.
Asset Bank is consistently recognised for its excellent customer support, both during onboarding and during a customer's lifecycle. Each Asset Bank client has a customer success manager from their UK-based team, who deeply understands their organisation.
ResourceSpace offers support services and documentation to help its users.
Both platforms support modern security requirements.
ResourceSpace can be deployed in environments configured to meet organisational security requirements.
Asset Bank offers secure hosting options and strong governance tools designed to support asset compliance and permissions control.
If you're an organisation looking for a configurable DAM platform that can be adapted to your own technical environment, ResourceSpace may be a strong fit.
If you are a marketing, brand or communications team seeking an easy-to-adopt DAM platform, Asset Bank is the better overall choice. It offers an intuitive experience combined with serious control over usage rights, permissions and consent.
With familiar folders, efficient upload workflows, flexible sharing portals, linked consent records and supported migration, Asset Bank helps organisations spend less time administering content and more time using it confidently.
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