November
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better.
Features in this release:
Creative Workflow
New Campaign & Job Menu
This feature will significantly improve the experience of creating jobs and increase preset findability. You are now able to search within the list, making it easier to manage large amounts of jobs and campaign presets. On top of that, you will now have a clear separation between presets and default options!
DAM
Similarity Search
Our Similarity Search feature is a game-changer in the way you search for content in your DAM. Select the image you like and press 'Show similar' to retrieve visually similar images from your asset library. Even better, create a small custom model by selecting multiple images. Finding visually similar assets was never quicker and easier!
Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this feature in your portal and learn about any associated costs.
Search by Image
Our new AI-powered Search by Image feature lets you explore your DAM by uploading an image from your desktop or by providing an external image URL to find out if the same or a similar image already exists. You will never again waste resources on creating or procuring assets that you already have!
Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this feature in your portal and learn about any associated costs.
Text-in-Image Search
Unlock a more efficient and powerful search with text recognition in images. Our AI-powered Text-in-Image search swiftly extracts text within images, for more precise and relevant search results. With Text-in-Image every image with text becomes available for search!
Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this feature in your portal and learn about any associated costs.
Duplicate Finder at Upload
Experience a clean and organized DAM with our latest AI feature Duplicate Finder at Upload. AI will alert users if they add identical assets during the upload process. Admins will be informed if duplicates appear in the waiting room. Stay in control by choosing to remove or continue uploading the assets in your DAM.
Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this feature in your portal and learn about any associated costs.
Secure Embed Assets
Bynder's new Secure Embed Assets feature allows authenticated Bynder users to securely embed videos, images, and more on intranets and other applications. This means that only users, who signed on (for example via SSO), will have access to the content, which does not need to be marked as public. Say "Yes" to more content, and more users, in a more secure way!
Integrations
Asana
Streamline workflows by ensuring that shared content is always up to date, and eliminating the need to repeatedly copy and paste links between tools. Add assets from the DAM to Asana tasks without leaving the Asana platform, and automatically upload project assets to the DAM triggered by a status, tagged with relevant metadata.
Wordpress
Save time and effort by ensuring that your chosen assets in the Bynder DAM are automatically synced and available in your Wordpress Library using tags. Publish your photos, images, and other brand assets from your DAM directly to your WordPress websites.
Seismic Connector
Automatically synchronize and tag chosen content from the Bynder DAM to Seismic's Library, enabling real-time distribution of content. This saves you time, enhances brand compliance, and improves go-to-market efficiency.
inriver Connector
Easily manage and utilize product images by integrating inriver and Bynder. Upload images to the Bynder DAM, have them automatically matched to inriver products, and enrich digital assets in Bynder with inriver metadata.
empower® Connector
Enhance productivity and streamline workflows by enabling access to the Bynder DAM from within Microsoft Office applications like Word and PowerPoint. Brand-compliant assets are now easily available from within documents, ensuring brand consistency and speeding up the document creation process.
October
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better.
Features in this release:
Content Workflow
Transformative AI
Adding transformative AI capabilities to AI Assist provides you with opportunity to further expand your content creation and accelerate your growth. You can now transform and generate edited materials seamlessly: extend and shorten texts, change tone of voice, and translate into different languages.
Integrations
Sharepoint Integration
Work more efficiently by automatically moving assets in SharePoint folders to your Bynder DAM without downloading from SharePoint and re-uploading to Bynder. Automatically upload assets to the Waiting Room or to folder level to approve and apply metaproperties before adding final versions to the DAM, saving time and effort.
New Partner connector: ButterCMS
Access digital assets from Bynder’s DAM, your single source of truth, from within the ButterCMS dashboard. With digital assets in one centralized location, collaborating, organizing, and sharing with internal and external stakeholders is more efficient than ever.
DAM
AI Search Experience
With the recent acquisition of EMRAYS, we have added powerful AI capabilities on top of our existing investment in AI development. Bynder AI Search Experience supercharges the asset retrieval and asset management process, brings operational efficiencies, boosts the productivity of your teams, and maximizes your ROI.
User Access Request (UAR) Improvements
During this cycle we worked on improving the UI of our UAR admin page by fixing some old flows and by adding some new functionality. We also worked on providing the Admins with more customization options for the UAR forms. With these improvements, the admins will be able to collect more information about their users before approval.
Enhanced User Data CSV Export
Say goodbye to data collection struggles! Our new feature allows DAM admins to download user data in a more organized format with additional details, including date created, deactivation date, SSO status, and more. Plus, we've added separate First Name and Last Name columns for your convenience. Now you can download relevant data in a CSV and don't need to request it from Professional Services.
Change History for Customers on New Taxonomy Services
Now customers on new Taxonomy Management can effortlessly review the complete change history of their taxonomy, giving them the ultimate control over all modifications. Stay informed, stay in control! Your DAM taxonomy management experience just got even better!
DAT
Elevate your brand with DAT Text Overlays
With this game-changing addition, you now have the power to choose and apply your brand fonts in asset transformations seamlessly. Customize font family, weight, size, color, positioning, and padding for text overlays. Maintain brand consistency and design guidelines effortlessly! Start using your custom fonts in DAT.
September
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better.
Features in this release:
Studio
Email Notifications in Review Process
To ensure a more efficient design review process and streamline communication in Studio, we've created email notifications for users involved in a review to inform them when their attention is required.
Learn more about approvals in Studio
Template Gallery
We're making a number of pre-built templates available to Studio designers for inspiration. They can serve as a starting point to help them understand Studio capabilities and get to high-quality, on-brand designs faster. You can find these ready-made templates in the Gallery section while creating a new design.
Learn more about the ready-made templates
Content Workflow
Duplicate a Revision
Choose any revision history point in time, and restore the content into a new duplicated item, across all structure fields, to the content as it was at that time. Rollback changes previously deployed on an item, and push these back into your CMS.
Learn more about duplicating a revision
DAM
Enhanced Search Results Context
Now you can easily understand search results with highlighted document fragments. This feature helps to identify the search context quickly and saves time reviewing search outcomes. Elevate your DAM search experience today!
User Management in Your Hands!
DAM Admins, say goodbye to performing actions individually in the User Management Page! Now you have the power to activate, deactivate, assign groups, profiles, change SSO status, or delete users - all in one swift move. To update the users in batch, simply check the box next to the users you’d like to update and then click the corresponding button in the top navigation.
Learn more about user management
Dynamic Asset Transformation
Predictable URLs Search Order
This cycle we are releasing a feature that allows you to determine the default display order of assets when multiple matches arise from a Predictable URL. You can set the default based on the date uploaded, date created, date updated, or the asset name in descending or ascending order. If you’d like to update the default, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager.
Learn more about predictable URLs
Integrations
Dropbox
We've improved the performance of our Dropbox integration to enable users to save even more time with Metadata Mapping. Use this feature to customize the values associated with the respective Bynder metadata fields when uploading assets for a more streamlined process that enriches your DAM's search, making assets easier to find.
Learn more about the Dropbox Integration
New Partner Connector: Stackbit
Select assets from the Bynder DAM without leaving Stackbit's visual editor, saving you time and empowering you to go to market faster by eliminating the need to switch between platforms when managing content.
August
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better.
Features in this release:
- Personal Uploads
- Direct PSD & Sketch Files Import from Personal Uploads
- Improvements to Design Publish Flow
Studio
Personal Uploads
The Uploads area of Studio can be used to store, find and manage personal assets that users would like to use in their designs without cluttering the Asset Bank. We’ve updated the look & feel and navigation for an overall smoother experience and allowed for Sketch and PSD files to be imported to Studio directly from the Uploads area.
Direct PSD & Sketch Files Import from Personal Uploads
For designers who don’t want their source design files to be available in the DAM when they want to use them in Studio, either because they should not be available to a wider user base or because the upload process would require them to go through the waiting room first, they can now upload their PSD and Sketch files directly through the Uploads area. This enables them to work more independently and efficiently on creating new designs.
Learn more about importing Photoshop and Sketch files
Improvements to Design Publish Flow
The publishing of design updates when designs have variations has been made more intuitive for designers and more efficient for all users involved:
- Designers' modifications to the original design elements will automatically update the existing variations after publishing.
- If any of the users had overridden the default variation data before the changes, they will have the option to revert it back to the default values.
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better.
Features in this release:
- Mobile App Improvements
- Embedded Metadata Configuration Page
- Predictable URLs
- Focus Point Override
- Date Range Filter and Data Export to CSV
- Export Images with Transparency
- Monday.com integration
- New Partner Connectors
- Collection Views Dashboard
- Empowering you to use AI on your own terms
DAM
Mobile App Improvements
We are releasing several improvements for our mobile users. To start, we have enhanced the download flow for all mobile users. Additionally, for iOS users, we are introducing a sleek progress bar when downloading files, along with the ability to save various file types on their devices, not limited to just images and videos.
Embedded Metadata Configuration Page
We are introducing a self-service Embedded Metadata Configuration Page for our customers on the new taxonomy management service! Our new page allows DAM admins to easily review extraction rules during upload, set additional rules, ensure metadata is written upon download, and customize CSV downloads and in-file metadata options all in one single place. Take charge of your portals' taxonomy!
Learn more about uploading and downloading assets with metadata
DAT
Predictable URLs
The wait is over! Predictable URLs are here! You can now automatically retrieve and display asset URLs based on assets' metadata. This will allow you to not only select your content more efficiently but also target your audience better. In addition, you will boost your website's SEO and assure brand consistency!
Focus Point Override
We are also happy to announce that users can now manually change and select focus points for image transformations within the DAT interface. This new feature provides more flexibility and customization options within the DAT UI. No need for multiple asset uploads in the DAM or external software adjustments.
Analytics (Delivery Metrics)
Date Range Filter and Data Export to CSV
With Delivery Metrics, you get insights about what happens with your assets outside the DAM. This is great, but now you can also easily filter reports by months, years, or custom ranges with our Date Range Filters. In addition, you can also export the data into a CSV file and further manipulate it for analysis or leverage it in external systems. Nothing beats informed decisions, right?!
Studio
Export Images with Transparency
To grant designers even more creative freedom and control over how their designs integrate visually and adapt to different mediums and backgrounds, Studio now supports image backgrounds with varying levels of opacity to full transparency, which are also retained on export.
Integrations
Monday.com
The new Monday.com integration eliminates the hassle of switching between separate platforms and allows project assets to be automatically uploaded to the DAM and tagged with relevant metadata upon approval. This improves efficiency, collaboration, and accuracy across the entire content lifecycle.
New Partner Connectors
To continue to enable a connected ecosystem, in this release we have new partner connectors for Sprout Social, HelloPrint and DDP by Catena Company.
Learn more about the Sprout Social, HelloPrint and DDP by Catena Company integrations
Analytics
Collection Views Dashboard
View more relevant, useful Collection analytics and utilize data to take the necessary actions to improve your Collections, enabling you to make data-driven decisions regarding high or low-performing Collections (e.g. re-use, aid in the creation of a new Collection, archive).
Content Workflow
Empowering you to use AI on your own terms
Use Generative AI on your own terms with AI Assist in a highly secure and structured way. Generative AI can be monitored and controlled at every level, ensuring your team uses it in line with the policy and pace of the roll-out plan your business is working on.
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better. We’ve outlined the updates below, which will be made available by Monday, June 5th, 2023 at 3 PM CET.
Features in this release:
- Filter Automations on Metaproperty Option
- Enhanced User Management
- CSV Metadata Download
- UCV Google Chrome Extension
- Stensul
- Google Drive
- Analytics for BI Access
- Brand Guidelines New Design Experience
- Studio Approvals
DAM
Filter Automations on Metaproperty Options
Seeking automations with a specific metaproperty option? Look no further! Our new filter/search feature simplifies the process, enabling you to quickly find, troubleshoot, and manage relevant automations effortlessly.
Enhanced User Management
We are introducing new user fields & filters. This will allow our Admins to efficiently find users based on criteria like creation date, SSO-only, username, and more. Now Admins can manage their user base effortlessly at scale!
Introducing CSV Metadata Download!
We listened to your feedback and now you can download asset metadata without downloading files. This allows you to easily audit your data quality, understand your assets' digital rights, and leverage your data in external systems. Start using this powerful feature now!
Integrations
UCV Google Chrome Extension
The Bynder Universal Compact View (UCV) Google Chrome extension will allow you to access your DAM anytime, anywhere. Enabling you to streamline workflows by accessing your Bynder portal online and using assets across email solutions, web-based applications, CMS, CRM, and any other system in your tech stack.
Stensul
Allowing your marketing teams to seamlessly connect their digital assets stored in Bynder with their email creation workflows in Stensul. Enabling you to dramatically reduce email creation time without adding staff or sacrificing quality and with that improve your productivity.
Google Drive
This feature enables you to automatically move assets in your Google Drive Account to Bynder without downloading from Google Drive and re-uploading to Bynder. Adding metadata upon upload and automating waiting room requests by folder saves you time and effort.
Analytics for BI Access
Our new Analytics for BI Access provides a self-service and secure connection to access your own raw event data in real-time to create tailored dashboards and reports using your own BI and data analysis tools.
Brand Guidelines
The New Design Experience
Creating captivating guides has never been easier! With the new Settings panel, you can customize the layout of your guides with flexibility and precision to achieve stunning visual results.
Studio
Approvals
Add a safety gate for Studio content designers to require sign-off on any adaptations before launch and pre-select the reviewers - individuals, groups or permission profiles. Guarantee on-brand content and approve or request edits with comments to guide necessary changes.
April
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better. We’ve outlined the updates below, which will be made available by Monday, April 17th, 2023 at 3 PM CET.
Content Workflow
Automated Due Dates
Setting Automated Due Dates for certain phases of the workflow will enable you to set clear expectations as well as the ability to scale setting timelines and schedules across larger content volumes. This will help you automate a previously mundane activity.
DAM
Improved Search Experience for Mobile Users
For both Android and iOS Bynder users we have made a number of improvements to the search experience. Among the new features that we are launching are a guide on how to perform a search, recent searches, search snippets, and pre-selected search terms. All making your experience smoother and faster.
Portal Theming Management
We are launching three completely new self-service pages from which DAM admins could manage the theming experience of their portals. Now they can change or upload fonts, favicon, and primary or secondary colors for free and without the help of Bynder. This functionality will be released gradually to our customer base, therefore not everybody will get it in this cycle release.
Improved Groups Management Overview and Permissions Management Pages
We are making groups management easier in the Bynder DAM by providing users with more user-friendly and modern UI of our Groups Management Page. In addition we are also releasing a few improvements that will allow our DAM Admins to grant permissions with more confidence.
Learn more about Permissions Management and Group Management
Dynamic Asset Transformation
Improved AVIF file output
AVIF output files were already supported in DAT. But now, our DAT customers will be benefiting from a better compression - the same quality AVIF output file as the original WebP file, but in a smaller file size. That means even more optimal asset delivery for your web pages.
Integrations
Marketo
Maintain brand consistency and ensure shared content is always up to date with Marketo Integration. Measure the success of your marketing efforts, bring campaigns to market faster, and keep your entire marketing workflow on one platform by centralising all of your assets.
Publitas
Streamline processes and avoid content silos by keeping Bynder as the single source of truth for all your digital assets. Always use the right asset version, and find the assets you need in an instant while creating or publishing online catalogs, brochures, and lookbooks through Publitas.
Imatag
Upload, tag, and search for visuals in an efficient way within Imatag while ensuring that each visual is watermarked upon import into Bynder. Avoid content silos, streamline processes, and always use the right asset version from Bynder directly in Imatag.
Shutterstock
We're excited to announce that Shutterstock now offers three new features: Dynamic metaproperty mapping, upload to the waiting room, and config start date. Customise metaproperty fields, ensure proper review and approval before loading assets into the DAM, and choose your preferred way to synchronise your licensed assets.
Bynder
Product Roadmap in Bynder Community
Bynder's Product team uses customer feedback to drive innovation during every release cycle. We’re happy to announce that we’ve added our Roadmap to our customer Community. Here, you can follow what the latest in our product development is, discuss, and provide feedback. It's exclusive for customers, so if you’re not a member yet, register for the Community to view!
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better. We’ve outlined the updates below, which will be made available by Monday, March 6th, 2023 at 3 PM CET.
With the new template organization feature, not only can designers manage large amounts of templates more efficiently but creators can also find the right templates faster.
We’ve refreshed the editor sidebar in Studio for a better user experience and added a brand-new text component. Designers and content creators can now apply custom text stylings and effects and even work with multiple styles within a single text element.
Public guides deserve the same level of brand control, if not more, as they are shared with external parties. You can now add a custom logo to your guides’ header beside the main navigation bar logo, or simply disable the main navigation bar if you don’t need external users to log in to your DAM.
We are excited to announce this new functionality to our platform. Delivery Metrics provides detailed analytics and insights on the usage of your assets outside of the DAM. Understand how your assets are performing and being used across different channels, helping you to provide better digital experiences to your end users.
Streamline your entire workflow with our seamless connection from start to finish. Manage the creation and production of marketing assets in Workfront, and then seamlessly curate, store, organise and distribute final assets in the DAM.
We've improved the search function for finding files when uploading, made relinking in Premiere Pro smoother, and enhanced Windows Explorer integration for easier file management. All improvements available in Adobe Creative Cloud.
We're excited to announce that Adobe Stock and Getty integrations now offer two new features: Dynamic metaproperty mapping and upload to the waiting room. Customize metaproperty fields, and ensure proper review and approval before loading assets into the DAM.
We understand the importance of maintaining brand consistency across all channels. That's why we've introduced a powerful new integration that allows you to access your e-commerce assets directly in Shopify, enabling the synchronization of brand-approved products and web assets across all e-commerce experiences.
Browsing through assets where preview is not supported has just become much easier - we now display the file format-specific icons in the asset overview screen, helping mobile users identify the asset type more easily and find the content they need faster.
We’re bringing you a more modernized user management experience. Besides making the User Management Overview Page more intuitive and visually appealing, we’ve improved filtering and sorting and made it easy to see the user counts for your selection.
More communication is not always better, so we’ve given collection owners and DAM admins the ability to decide if an email notification should be sent to end users when a collection is shared. Simply uncheck the 'Send email' box to save your end users space in their Inbox.
As a valued Bynder customer, we wanted to let you know about some upcoming updates that’ll make your Bynder experience even better. We’ve outlined the updates below, which will be made available by Monday, January 30th, 2023 at 3 PM CET.
Supporting multiple workflows inside a single project will allow you to facilitate more complex production procedures without the need to break up projects. This feature will benefit more complex teams, where they may have a basic workflow, and then a more specific workflow for certain types of content.
To allow Brand Guidelines users to find the content they are looking for faster, we’ve worked on a series of improvements to the search functionality - showing more granular results that can be narrowed down with filters.
Navigating through content in guides just got even more user-friendly. With clickable chapters and vertical expanding and collapsing of Table of Contents in the side menu, plus the option to navigate to the previous and next page in the page itself, users will find their way around the guides in no time.
Our Bynder DAM Admins will love our new UI of the Asset Overview Page Configuration! They can now easily configure metaproperties options displayed next to each asset in the Asset Overview Page under the grid or list view of the page.
Enrich assets with tags and metadata before uploading them into the DAM. Save time and avoid additional steps by editing assets with tags and metadata directly within Adobe Creative Cloud and/or Microsoft Office 365.
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