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Thanks to Super Users Mike Ekern (University of St Thomas) and Ian Wilson (Decide) and our own developer Mike Blom for a stimulating hangout on October 1st.

Here’s what was discussed.

Showcase of Decide’s Asset Banks

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Decide is a UK creative agency specialising in shopper marketing & packaging design. They actually have two different Asset Banks, one they use for their Agency and another for one of their clients, a very large global FMCG company, unfortunately we can’t tell you which one or share any screen grabs!

Client Asset Bank (Global FMCG Company)

This Asset Bank is used to help Decide’s client store assets and share them with distributors and ecommerce sites. Decide produce thousands of product shots for this client and each image needs to be produced in a number of different formats for ecommerce. It was fascinating to see this Asset Bank as Decide are using a number of highly technical features, we would imagine no other client has 135 Asset attributes! Some of the features they find very useful are:

  • Download images in different formats - It is very handy for Decide that with Asset Bank, once you have uploaded a master asset it can be downloaded in different formats as required by each market and distributor.
  • Expiry dates - As product pack shots are frequently changed their client sets the default expiry of assets to one year. At the end of the year both Decide and the designated Client approver get a notification that the asset will expire in two weeks. They can quickly extend the asset lifetime to another year if they want it to continue to be used.
  • Creating toolboxes - Decide create toolboxes for each product containing images, pack shots and graphics. This allows other parts of the company or more likely their agencies to quickly edit the asset as they require because all the elements are in one place.
  • Automatically creating product sheets - Product sheets are required as part of the shipping process. Asset Bank allows the client to automate part of the data compilation process as well as message different parties to help complete their part of the sheet.

Showcase of Decide Resource

Resource is the name given to the Asset Bank Decide use for their own agency use. It’s used to store and manage all their work but also allows clients to access their own assets. When clients login they see an Asset Bank with their own branding and only their assets -  effectively they get their own Asset Bank!

Latest Asset Bank features

Bright Interactive developer Mike Blom demonstrated three new Asset Bank features.

  • See a full history of assets when you are developing an asset through to approval (screengrab below).
  • Define custom filepath templates when publishing files
  • Change messaging and labels on your Asset Bank by group

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Read more about these new features here. 

If you would like to discuss any of these items further please get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

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