2023
June
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 API
- 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 API
Our new Analytics API 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.
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.
2022
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, November 28th, 2022 at 3 PM CET.
Assigning people to workflow steps is now possible at the item level as well as the workflow level. Increase operational efficiency and leave less room for errors as your content progresses through the workflow.
The new collection settings allow you to control how users interact with collections in your Brand Guidelines. You can adjust the collection layout and visibility of asset details and determine the download and redirection behavior - making it asset or collection specific.
Guide duplication we announced last was just a start - we have now added the ability to move pages across guides to accelerate the creation process further and save you time for the work that matters.
Color is one of the most critical elements to ensure brand consistency, so we give it the attention it deserves. In addition to the existing color picker, Studio admins and designers can now define a global palette of brand colors and make it accessible for every color selection property in the Studio editor.
Why re-create when you can import? Designers can re-use their Sketch files in Studio by importing them directly from the DAM. Photoshop import also got an upgrade - we’ve added support for shapes, groups, masks and blend modes
Our users know that Smart Filters are a core element of our Bynder DAM. Therefore, a small improvement in their performance is a huge benefit. We are happy to announce that this cycle we have improved the performance of our single list Smart Filters and users will experience them loading 2 to 5 times faster.
We implemented customer feedback and users will now find the taxonomy filters listed before the advanced filters on the menu and will also be able to see the full asset name in the asset detail view page. Both of these changes improve the mobile UX and align it further with our Bynder DAM web UX.
To reduce the security risk of downloading non-approved assets and give more granular control over asset downloads in Workflow jobs, it is now possible to configure per workflow stage which assets can be downloaded in a job and by whom.
Connect Bynder to Google Drive, Box, and Dropbox to sync finalized assets to Bynder for use and distribution. When an asset is added to any synced folders, it will be sent over to Bynder’s Waiting Room to await admin approval and assignment of metadata.
Stay on top of changes within Bynder by easily configuring automated notifications for Slack and Microsoft Teams for updates within Bynder including upload, update, delete, and archive.
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, October 17th, 2022 at 3 PM CET.
Brand Guidelines users can now not only duplicate pages but also entire guides! This saves hours of repetitive work and allows you to create templates, boosting the consistency of your guides. In addition, the new Analytics dashboard will provide powerful insights on how your guides are used.
Learn more about the Duplication of Guides and the Analytics Dashboard
Bynder Studio introduces 16 different blend modes for its designers. With blend modes designers can make more complex and richer compositions, achieving effects they could not before. In addition, designers can now import PSD files directly from the Bynder DAM and save them as templates!
Learn more about Blend Modes and the Photoship Importer
We are introducing also a few enhancements which will give more control to designers. For example, they can now limit the asset source to a specific collection and define what output types are available for Content Creators in the export screen.
We are introducing a Self-service Google SSO. This new feature enables you to set up and manage Google SSO in a self-service way. In addition you can use multiple SSO methods, combining SAML and Google!
We are happy to announce that we are in our second wave of gradual roll out of our new taxonomy management. Some of the new improvements are related to the ability to set custom translations for multilingual taxonomy, and the search bar for metaproperties. Want to know more? Please get in touch with your Bynder representative.
Now Bynder DAM users with “download public derivatives” permission can not only view an asset's public link but can also share it. Before they needed "edit original asset" rights in order to share. That stimulates content sharing and visibility of our customers' assets.
When creating transformations in the DAT UI (asset detail view, presets, and the Universal Compact View) you can now utilize image and color overlays. Select a PNG or JPEG from the DAM or color and adjust things like position and opacity over your original asset.
Enable quicker creation of on-brand Office documents across your organization. The Bynder Connector for Microsoft Office 365 provides access to your company assets, stored in your asset bank, directly in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
We're releasing a number of improvements including support for Wordpress 6 and an improved experience with the DAT UI in the Universal Compact View, enabling on the fly transformations for Wordpress, Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) and SAP Commerce Cloud.
Learn more about the Wordpress, SFMC, and SAP Commerce Cloud Connector integrations
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, September 5th, 2022 at 3 PM CET.
We are happy to announce new improvements to collections within Brand Guidelines. These include a more intuitive layout, automatic version updates, and direct downloads from within a guide to speed up processes and improve usability.
We want to make it easier for you to upload content into Bynder DAM while you are on the go. For example, if you are at an event and you need to upload some great shots into the DAM, you can do that easily without the need to log in beforehand. Just make sure you've enabled your upload permissions.
You told us you like our Zoom Slider functionality so much that you'd like to use it for viewing assets within a Collection. We’ve got great news for you. Your wish has been granted! Now you can find the Zoom Slider in Collections as well.
Bynder's LWC works across the Salesforce core wherever components can be used, enabling users to attach assets to Salesforce objects and display assets within Salesforce.
New and improved self-service set-up connectors are now available for stock integrations across Getty, Adobe Stock, Unsplash, and Shutterstock. Automatically push your stock images into Bynder for use.
Learn more about Getty, Adobe Stock, Unsplash, and Shutterstock integrations.
Optimizely/Episerver has been upgraded to support .NET 5, CMS 12, Commerce 14, and the DAT user interface. With the new Prezi partner connector, pull Bynder assets into Prezi Video to create beautiful, engaging presentations.
Learn more about the Optimizely/Episerver and Prezi integrations.
Struggling with structured content creation? You may remember that Bynder acquired GatherContent earlier this year. Well, we're now thrilled to reveal Content Workflow as the new, DAM-integrated centralized platform that brings the power of effortless content creation into perfect harmony with your existing asset library.
We are happy to announce several improvements to how users can create guides. We made adding building blocks faster, adding sections, and changing the title of a page or chapter easier, and we also enhanced the publishing flow.
The new masking allows Studio designers to create more complex, layered designs and animations. Users can now control the transparency of an element with other elements such as shapes, images and text.
To give you more space for creativity and extra room for precision, we have expanded the Studio work area beyond the canvas and improved the zooming functionality. Additionally, the new automatic guides help you position elements on the canvas and align them with other objects.
We are introducing two more self-service options (Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions) to empower our Bynder DAM admins to have easy access and more control over their portal configurations.
Learn more about the Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions
To help get the most of your Bynder experience, we've made some significant improvements to our DAM Taxonomy management that we'll be rolling out in the next few months. If you'd already like to know more, please get in touch with your Bynder representative.
We are happy to share that we also now offer a Multi-SSO (SAML) for our customers who need to integrate Bynder with multiple identity providers.
Our new Duplicate Image Finder has better performance and UI and supports PNG files. Now they can find, merge, and delete image duplicates with a few mouse clicks.
With only 0.3% of our users using the Contact Sheet View, we have decided to retire support for that functionality. We understand this could be a disruptive change for some users. Therefore we’re glad to inform you that several workarounds are available on the link below.
We have updated the permissions settings for DAT to provide more flexibility and control to manage and limit users' ability to view DAT URLs, transform assets, and use presets.
Our partner community continues to offer new integration points into Bynder. This cycle includes monday.com, Showpad, and updates to the Figma integration.
With this new development customers will be able to easily duplicate a page to build out guides much faster.
Users will now be able to control who has access to a design, project, or template and share them either with specific individuals or groups.
We have listened to your feedback and we have improved the performance for listing and restoring assets on the Assets Trash Page.
With this new feature release, our customers will be able to easily set support forms by themselves without the help of Bynder teams. Check out how you can do that via our short demo video in the link below.
As part of our initiative to improve UX for iOS users, we are introducing several improvements such as the ability to share assets via collection, displaying the recipients as Bynder users instead of phone contacts, and the removal of a download notification in case of native sharing.
We are introducing a set of new improvements to our SAP CC Connector such as the ability to automatically send assets from Bynder to SAP, automatic mapping of Bynder derivatives to SAP media types, the ability to send metadata from SAP to Bynder, and the ability to to utilize Bynder’s Dynamic Asset Transformation with SAP.
We are happy to introduce our new Salesforce Component compatible with Sales and Service Cloud products. With it, Salesforce users can search and select assets and content from Bynder DAM and attach them to any standard Salesforce object.
More Details to Follow Soon
We are also happy to announce that we have put together a guide providing best practices for developers & system integrators (SI) when developing integration between Bynder DAM and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
More Details to Follow Soon
We continue to work with our partner community to offer new possible integration points across the ecosystem. This cycle, we are including a new Partner connector from Dataggo to integrate with Akeneo PIM Enterprise Edition.
Brand Guidelines sharing options are now more granular. For every user/user group/permission profile you share a Page or Chapter, users can assign a different level of access.
Because of the time stamping, users can maximize efficiency by enhancing the handling process and decreasing the time spent on finding the right uploaded assets.
With this new functionality, VBS allows Content Creators to adjust the video duration based on selected source videos. With it, users can now build video templates with ‘talking heads’ and modify existing videos by adding a logo, watermark, end card, sound relay, etc.
We now offer pre-designed video templates, which Designers can use and adapt to their own branding or needs.
Adding a link that takes you to the waiting room makes it easier to get straight to the assets awaiting approval. As long as you’re already logged in, clicking the link will take you directly to the waiting room where you can approve the assets shared with you.
DAM users can now search for a keyword in the text of .ai files. Now they can spend less time searching and more time designing.
We are introducing one unified header for consistency and ease of use across all Bynder modules. This helps to improve performance and navigation experience for our users.
We are introducing some great new updates to our DAT functionality. We are adding two new transformations based on clipping path, new, improved UI, and the ability to scale transformations using presets. Therefore, DAT now supports a larger number of use cases such as CMS, e-commerce, marketing automation, etc.
As of now, our iOS users can download not only the original but also the derivatives of an asset from the detailed asset screen.
This cycle we introduce two improvements to our integrations. For UCV access tokens can now be provided via configuration, allowing users to bypass the regular login flow. And for our WordPress integration we now support Featured Image for customers utilizing UCV, which allows users to select a consistent representative image for posts, pages, or custom post types.
We continue to work with our partner community to offer new possible integration points across the ecosystem. This cycle, we are including a new Partner connector from Induxx to integrate with Akeneo PIM Community Edition as well as an integration with Figma by our parter Figmage.
Click here to learn more about the Akeneo integration and click here to learn more about the Figmage integration.
With the acquisition of GatherContent, Bynder adds collaborative workflow and editorial processes for structured content creation capabilities to its unique, centralized platform to empower teams across industries to easily manage the entire content creation lifecycle.
Brand Guidelines Enterprise Plan users now have control over who has access rights to view or edit their guide groups.
Introducing a better user experience in our Design Modal. Marketers and Designers have different models now tailored to their needs.
We’ve improved the trim modal in our Studio by adding zoom controls to simplify setting the start and end point of your clip. Next to that, you can also set start and end points via numeric fields.
We have made performance improvements of the loading time of our Job Overview Page which results in better UX.
We’ve reworked some of our download functionality. The main benefit of it is that it provides streaming download functionality, which means a faster download experience, especially visible when downloading large amounts of assets or when doing bulk download tasks.
Our LATAM users can now switch their language in DAM and Brand Guidelines to Spanish Mexican.
We are introducing a new functionality called Flexible Asset Thumbnails in the Grid View of the Asset Overview Page. The new functionality allows users to zoom in and out on the asset thumbnails adjusting the size from S to XXL.
As part of our series of spotlight search improvements, users will now immediately see the search results appearing after hitting enter.
We’ve added a number of new improvements to DAT that our customers will be happy with. Now we support AVIF output, we increased the maximum size to 5000px of the derivatives, there is an option for public visibility for assets, compatibility with Mass Uploader, and finally we’ve made some improvements of the UX of DAT.
We continue to improve our UCV UI. With the new improvement users can see more of the metaproperties of the assets while using the compact view.
We have made integration with Bynder even easier. We have added functionality to our SDKs. Now developers can easily append information like limited usage, tags, and creation and modification date.
We continue to work with our partner community to offer new possible integration points across the ecosystem, this cycle we are including Highspot, for sales enablement.
Now users can easily sort assets based on the number of views. The most or least viewed assets will appear on the top of the asset overview page.
Connecting Bynder to the Dynamics marketing email engine enables marketers to ensure all assets used in campaigns are up-to-date and brand-approved.
We have made some improvements to Smartfilter searching. These include support for partial search queries, multiple partial search queries, and special characters in order to speed up the return of search results—and create a better searching experience.
We’ve improved the customer experience by adding new features to Brand Guidelines. There are now three plans - Basic, Advanced, and Enterprise.
For the Basic and Advanced plans, the changes include:
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Introduction of 1 theme set or all guides with more advanced styling options, to better convey your brand within your guides
The Enterprise plan includes:
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Unlimited guides and pages, for extended use and flexibility
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Guide grouping to group related topics or brands together
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As many custom theme sets as desired to represent each of your brands visually
Users are now able to use multiple text styles within one text box in a template making it faster and easier to customize creations.
Select and perform actions across multiple assets from within a job—including approve, reject, and delete—for faster workflows.
The Bynder GraphCMS UI extension lets you find and use your Bynder digital assets (images, videos, and documents) directly from within GraphCMS—saving editors' valuable time and ensuring brand consistency across all content.
Mobius Labs’ tagging provides a complex selection of descriptive and conceptual tags providing quick and precise search results and keywords. Mobius Labs’ SDK allows you to create different concepts around your brand while analysis of assets helps to generate the right visuals for your target audience. By utilizing Bynder images and videos with Mobius Labs, finding the most impactful assets for your needs has never been easier.
Users now have the option to adjust their default language in DAM and Brand Guidelines (navigation, menus). Options include: Dutch, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, and Polish. Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager if you would like one or more languages made available in your portal.
We’re rolling out the DAM header bar within the Digital Brand Templates and Brand Guidelines modules in order to deliver a more consistent user experience across the entire platform.
Users are now provided with a list of their recent searches when clicking the search bar, making it easier to repeat past searches and find what you need fast.
With Dynamic Asset Transformation (DAT), you’re able to automatically transform and optimize content to support your digital experiences, and we’ve just added a few new tricks to it:
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Adjust: Saturation, Temperature, Highlights/Shadows, Sharpness
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Overlay: Color - add a single color on top of an image and adjust opacity; Text - with adjustable size, color, and placement; Image - overlay with an image available in the DAM
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Filters: Vignette - add a vignette effect to images
We have added support for Google Analytics 4 and Google GTAG for faster and easier installation, improved tracking, reduced loading times, future-proofing conversion measurement, and codeless tag management.
Available through Canva’s App Marketplace, easily navigate through your Bynder Collections and add the assets you want into your designs in Canva.
EMRAYS is a customizable AI solution that can complement Bynder’s DAM with functionality like ranking of images by social impact (with attributes like positivity, wow, fun), comparing images across the asset library by similarity, and robust duplicate search.
With a new “Search Help” option available directly within the search dropdown menu, users can find search tips to easily navigate searching within Bynder and find exactly what they need when they need it.
With Dynamic Asset Transformation (DAT), you’re able to automatically transform and optimize content to support your digital experiences, and we’ve just added a few new tricks to it:
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New Filters: Opacity, Sepia, Contrast, Brightness, Grayscale, Blur
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Overlay Box: Cover entire image with an overlay and adjust color and opacity
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Image Border: Add a solid color border and adjust border width.
You’re now able to upload straight from your desktop onto the guidelines page, without files getting published into the DAM.
Enjoy a more consolidated and easier sharing experience by sharing to other platforms without leaving the app and sharing directly from the asset detail view and asset screen.
To support more creativity and flexibility with template designs, we now support blend modes including multiply, overlay, soft light, and hard light for Photoshop and Sketch.
Enhancements include a simpler implementation of Bynder’s Dynamic Asset Transformation (DAT) with a script to automate SQL migration. Additional enhancements include OAuth 2.0 authentication.
Enhancements include support for responsive images, functionality to support Drupal media translations for SEO purposes, and a simpler implementation of Bynder’s Dynamic Asset Transformation (DAT) with the ability to set DAT parameters from within Drupal settings.
Connect Bynder with the eGo CMS to use Bynder assets across web experiences managed in eGo, ensuring the latest asset version is always displayed.
With Dynamic Asset Transformation (DAT), you’re able to automatically transform and optimize content to support your digital experiences, and we’ve just added a few new tricks to it:
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Work more flexibly with your website layouts and styles by cropping images into circular shapes and adding your desired background color
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Turn transparent backgrounds of your product images into solid color backgrounds
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Upside down images? Edit on the fly and have them automatically rotated
Handover projects when you’re out of office so that deadlines are still met and projects launch smoothly.
As we continue to create a deeper connection between the Bynder DAM and Studio, users can now search for, select, and use video, image, and audio assets direct from the DAM in video creations.
Use a slider from within Instant Preview to control audio levels or mute while previewing. Settings are saved across the existing session.
You're now able to apply the same filter experience you use when working on your computer for your smartphone too. Smartfilters, "Advanced" filter options, and UI improvements have all been added on Android and iOS.
When viewing Documents or Tasks, you can now save your view to only see what you have created, making it easier to focus on your work, without getting distracted by the work of others. Settings are saved across the existing session.
Adobe Commerce helps brands create engaging, shoppable experiences. Connecting Bynder to Adobe Commerce enables the use of brand-approved product and web assets across all e-commerce experiences.
Kentico Xperience is a fully integrated digital experience platform (DXP) combining content management, digital marketing, and commerce. Connecting Bynder to Kentico Xperience enables quick access to digital assets from Bynder directly within Kentico Xperience.
Workato, a leading Integration and Automation Platform platform, helps people get work done faster by connecting applications, databases, and systems. The Bynder connector for Workato enables automation of workflows between Bynder and a multitude of tools within the Workato ecosystem.
TINT helps marketers gain and manage the legal rights to user-generated content (UGC), and then distribute that content across marketing channels. Having Bynder as the central library for user-generated content ensures content is always available for distribution, easy to find, consistently on-brand, and pre-approved for use.
Enjoy a more consistent UX across the Bynder platform. We're now rolling out the familiar sidebar experience into Creative Workflow.
When managing multiple brands, regions, or departments, you’re now able to group their guides accordingly for a clearer overview. This improvement marks the first step towards multi-brand portals, so stay tuned for more.
Contact your CSM to learn more.
Editing chapters within a guide is now as easy as ordering pages. Enjoy a seamless editing experience with Brand Guidelines.
Admins can now configure text elements and allow users to choose from a list of font options, making localization easier while customizing creations.
For added flexibility and customization, admins can now grant users permission to upload assets from their computer in addition to using assets stored in Bynder.
By integrating the Pixyle.ai automatic tagging tool with Bynder, fashion retailers can generate rich, accurate fashion tags for better product discovery and replace manual and time-consuming tagging with artificial intelligence.
Optimize your website performance and increase engagement to deliver the best possible digital experience to your website visitors by leveraging Dynamic Asset Transformations (DAT).
Admins can set masks on a template within the template editor, enabling transparent images to be used as masks where images can be moved and scaled within that mask.
Admins can link or unlink layers for templates within the template editor.
End users can preview each scene in real-time while creating videos in batch.
Videos can be exported to GIF format. Multiple presets are available that are optimized for loop or no loop and different color depths.
To provide an even more visual experience to your users, you are now able to add a link behind images embedded into a guidelines page.
Another step towards an even cleaner guidelines page design by aligning bullet points styling to text styling on the guidelines page.
You are now able to add and remove metaproperty options in two separate API calls which results in better performance when making changes to your taxonomy via the API. This is especially useful when syncing your DAM with adjacent technology like a PIM where product info gets synchronized regularly.
Having full control over your product information is crucial for creating engaging digital experiences for customers across all channels. Streamline your product enrichment process by matching assets and metadata from Bynder to the right products in Stibo and sending product information from Stibo back to Bynder.
Creatives can now sort search results based on the asset’s filename when using Bynder’s Adobe Creative Cloud Connector, making it easier and faster to find the assets they’re looking for. Update to the latest version to take advantage of this and previous updates.
The connector now supports video and documents, enhancing the types of files that can be used within SDL across digital channels. Update to the latest version to take advantage of this and previous updates.
In order to provide our customers with an even better, faster and smarter search experience, we have taken the first steps to modernize our search infrastructure. Algorithms divide customer portals automatically in partitions for scalability, and faster, more reliable search results. This is building a strong foundation for additional improvements that will be presented in upcoming roadmap webinars.
When set up by admins, users can now show and hide layers within a template, enabling more flexibility with template designs, reducing the number of similar templates needed.
Speed up the design process by previewing any changes made instantly in real-time in the editor, on-demand, or during batch creation.
Use native Excel files for batch video creation, enabling the use of special characters, line breaks and more.
Set up custom export formats to ensure you have the right output and file type for the right channel and reduce the need for manual processing of final videos.
With the Bynder and Trello integration, users have the ability to attach assets directly from Bynder into Trello cards, streamlining task management.
Users with “upload assets” permission can upload directly to DAM or Waiting Room and enrich assets with a title and a description as well as add to a new or existing collection.
Admins will now see a link to the Knowledge Base directly on the support form within Bynder for easy access to articles and information. Admins can also request customizations to the support form for different permission profiles like labels, direct contacts and links to the Knowledge Base. Please contact your CSM for customization requests.
Create batches of assets for social media, banners, and ads for all your channels more quickly than ever before. On top of previously released features for Template Sets–like linked backgrounds and settings–admins can now link images and text across sets of templates, so marketers can make changes once and instantly see them across all variations.
Admins are now able to delete campaigns to help keep your working area tidy and relevant, and of course to cover up any campaigns created accidentally.
Admins are now able to delete campaigns to help keep your working area tidy and relevant, and of course to cover up any campaigns created accidentally.
Videos created can now be configured to be sent to the Waiting Room (up to 50 at one time) to await tagging and approval before being stored in the asset bank.
To make pages easier to navigate, editors can now include a table of contents to enable users to jump to sections within the page.
To clean up the sidebar navigation, guide users can expand and collapse chapters and pages.
Guide access can be configured per guide allowing you to enable editors and viewers for each guide.
Editors can upload assets from their desktop into the Media Widget. If you would like to try this feature out, please contact your CSM.
Connect Bynder to SAP Commerce Cloud’s Backoffice and SmartEdit to use your brand-approved product and web assets in e-commerce experiences.
Users can now share multiple assets at one time through the Android mobile app.
Users can now add multiple assets to a collection, easily share collections, and delete collections directly from the Android mobile app.
To make the admin experience in Bynder more self service, admins can now build out user access request forms without requiring help from Bynder. Contact your CSM for more details.
When a template admin adjusts the settings on one artboard in a template set, the settings will be automatically applied to all layers with the same name across all artboards in the set. This applies to locking, enabled font colors, image sources, and text auto-shrink settings. For example, if you lock a logo in one artboard, it will lock all logos for the other artboards in the set.
To make localization or creating new versions for testing easier, you can now duplicate an existing document from the overview or editor and make edits, instead of having to create it from scratch from a template.
Don’t want to recreate a section that only needs minor changes? Now you can duplicate any section within a page to accelerate guide creation.
Customize your pages even further by adding background colors to sections within guideline pages.
We’ve updated the descriptions and names for permissions within the Brand Guidelines module to make them easier to use.
Transferring your projects from Adobe Premiere is now easier than ever. We will automatically reconnect your assets and match your text elements with the correct font settings.
We’ve added a new animation curve that allows you to create even smoother animations!
You can now control if you want to use motion blur with your animations or not which will allow you to speed up rendering and recreate effects to be even more precise.
We now support the recently released Adobe Creative Cloud 2021! Plus, we’ve released some improvements to the way links are managed for InDesign: uploading assets (one or many) to Bynder from InDesign and relinking assets (one or many) to Bynder from InDesign to ensure assets always stay up to date.
We now support Drupal 9 and videos files within the Drupal connector.
Are you approving content of a specific type, country or brand? Apply any filter in the Waiting Room to approve with ease. Set your default filter to make approvals even smoother.
Who’s changed the meta-information on all those files? No more asking around—just check the asset change history.
Choose your background color and apply it across an entire artboard with just one click and get your content to market faster.
What guidelines pages are viewed the most? And by how many users? Get insights into Brand Guidelines usage with Google Analytics.
Maintaining multiple brand guidelines? Make sure you stick to your custom brand names across all guidelines.
Adding text to the guidelines pages just got easier. One page, one style, no more errors.
Get your guidelines even more structured by adding spacing dividers in between content blocks.
Your data's security is always priority number one. As part of our commitment in maintaining the highest security standards for our users, we will implement a web application firewall (WAF). Having a WAF in place means that using Bynder is now more secure than ever. Put simply, a WAF monitors, filters, and blocks data packets as they travel to and from your web application or API.
Publish your videos faster by directly exporting them from Video Brand Studio to Brightcove.
Publish your videos faster by directly exporting them from Video Brand Studio to Facebook.
Working on multiple video formats? Your starting screen will now always be covering the full canvas, saving you some manual work.
Select and add text, image, or video elements to your video production with ease and drop them exactly where they should go on the timeline.
Connect Bynder with the headless CMS Magnolia to manage your Bynder assets from within the Magnolia UI.
Connect Bynder with CI Hub and add files directly from the DAM when working with Microsoft or Adobe products.
By cleaning up the interface and creating more clear names and descriptions for each option, permissions profile management in Bynder is now more intuitive for admins to configure profiles, assign permissions, and see what each profile has the ability to do. This update will be rolled out to our customers in phases between August 19, 2020 and September 7th, 2020.
“Why don’t I see that!?” If you use metaproperty options to determine what users or groups have access to assets, you can now view those permissions on the asset detail view. This helps to diagnose why certain users or groups have access or not.
Our new default theme is more flexible and future proof than ever. No matter what features, modules or header images are added, or which screen size your users have, it’ll always deliver a consistent user experience.
Users on Advanced Digital Brand Templates can now pick and choose which artboards to download, send to the asset bank, or alternatively send to the Waiting Room, individually or in groups—direct from the document overview.
No more pesky spelling mistakes on your content! Do a quick spell check directly in Digital Brand Templates before you export your document or send for approval.
You can now view all of your guides in a tile view or list view to easily scan and find the guide you are looking for. Additionally, information like the creation date of the guide is also displayed in the list view.
For easy customization, there are now three new section layout options available including one with three symmetrical columns, as well as distributing the two column layouts asymmetrically in a 30/70 ratio or a 70/30 ratio. These expand the previously existing single column and double column layouts.
Hyperlink email addresses within your guides so users can click and directly open up an email to the address listed. Simply click to add a link in the text widget, type “mailto:” and then the email address you would like to link to.
For assets embedded on a page, viewers can now click to enlarge, with options to view the full asset detail in the DAM (if they are a user) or download the embedded image if available.
View and configure the Job Overview by using custom campaign and job metaproperties as columns and filters. You can also add quick notes directly from the overview. Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable this feature.
To be more efficient when working on the go, users can now upload multiple assets at once to the DAM through the iOS and Android mobile apps.
For quicker access, admins and those with the right permissions are now able to configure uploads to skip the Waiting Room and go straight into the asset bank.
To quickly start utilizing videos created on your mobile device, users can now upload video assets into the DAM through the iOS mobile app.
Users can now download and share assets on the go both individually or through collections via the Android mobile app.
We have made some enhancements to our Drupal 8 connector to make the integration more powerful. They include support for documents, the option to import assets into Drupal to utilize native functionality or use CDN links, and automatic updates to synced assets and metadata.
Automatically sync your Getty purchased stock to Bynder by sending it to the Waiting Room for approval before storing in the asset bank.
Automatically sync your Shutterstock purchased stock to Bynder by sending it to the Waiting Room for approval before storing in the asset bank.
In the last update, we released the ability to edit multiple artboards within one editor for our Advanced Digital Brand Templates users. Now, you’ll be able to pick and choose the artboards you want to download, send to the asset bank, or send to the waiting room individually or in groups. They can also be exported as zipped files!
We also released a few other features to make working with Digital Brand Templates even better - rename artboards and upload images from your computer for campaign cover images.
To make reviewing assets in workflow more powerful, now you can tag users in annotations, view annotations sorted by page, and resolve annotations.
Now in the guide overview, guide managers can select guides to feature so they show up on the top of the screen when users view all guides available to them.
Guide editors can now add more custom color values to the color palette widget as well as edit HEX, RGB, and CMYK values.
Search for guides by chapter and page titles in the Bynder search bar, making your guides and pages easier for users to find.
When embedding collections on a guide’s page, choose between showing 4, 8, 16, 32, or 48 of the assets within that collection, directly on the page in the guide.
For added customization and flexibility, editors are now able to add sections between sections and move sections within the guide.
To better represent your brand, editors can select more font styles in their font family (e.g. regular, bold, semi-bold, light).
Share and manage collections from the Collections Overview with streamlined “Action” menus that are only visible when you own the collection or have “Manage” permissions for that collection.
In this release, you can now find collections in the iOS mobile app faster and easier by using the Bynder search bar directly within the app.
Our Episerver integration now supports our latest and greatest Compact View and Asset Tracker, enabling you to track when assets are being used in Episerver, right from Bynder.
Salsify’s experience management platform (PXM) combines the power of PIM, commerce, and actionable insights to orchestrate compelling product experiences through every digital touchpoint. Streamline your product enrichment process by uploading your images to Bynder and have them automatically matched to the right products in Salsify.
Stackla helps brands discover, manage, publish, and optimize authentic user-generated content (UGC) across all marketing channels—from ads and websites to email and social. This integration allows users to send user-generated content captured via the Stackla platform directly into Bynder.
Creative Force is a real-time tracking and workflow system for photo studios, covering an entire end-to-end workflow from sample check-in, photography, internal and external post-production, all the way to final asset delivery. With this integration, assets and associated metadata can be uploaded automatically to Bynder from Creative Force, establishing a central source of truth for marketing assets.
Do you have an announcement to make or would you like to advice your users on something? Notify all your users or a subset of your users with our General Portal Notification feature, which allows you to post a message on the login page of the portal. Read more about it here.
Share and manage collections more easily with additional sharing options and clearer visibility into what collections have been shared, with who, what permissions they have within the collection, and for how long they have access. Read more about it here.
You can now edit your multi-artboard Digital Brand Templates in one overview screen. End users can also create the documents in one overview screen. Read more about the multi-artboard editor here.
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This feature is only available for Advanced Digital Brand Templates.
Does the default job overview screen not fit your use case optimally? You can now create your own custom job overview screen with custom filters and columns so that your users can easily find the job they're looking for. Read more about it here.
Workflow Admins can now set minimum and maximum character requirements on text fields and minimum and maximum number of selections on multi-select fields within Workflow forms. Read more about it here.
As a new option in the Workflow job creation pop-up, users can now check a box to create an additional job. Once they hit the create button, they can make changes to the fields they filled out and create the additional job without having to fill out all the fields again. Read more about it here.
You can now customize this header of your Digital Brand Guideline pages according to your liking by changing the background color, applying a background image as well as changing the font color. Read more about it here.
Find collections more easily on the iOS mobile app by filtering on “my collections”, “all collections”, and “published online” and then sorting by “name” and “date”.
On Android you can now find assets more easily in the asset bank with advanced filtering options using the metaproperties from your taxonomy and improvements to the user experience.
Read more about it here.
Contentstack is an API-first, headless CMS that enables businesses to create, manage, and distribute content across all digital properties. With this integration, you can use your Bynder-stored images directly in Contentstack, saving time searching for assets and ensuring the most up-to-date assets are always displayed. Read more about it here.
Digideck is a dynamic platform for creating powerful custom sales and marketing presentations for sports organizations and enterprises. With this integration, developed by Sportsdigita, users can access all of their image files from within Bynder without ever having to leave the Digideck platform. Read more about it here.
Metadata presets save time and reduce mistakes during the upload process. You can now create presets and then share them with other users. Read more about it here.
Users no longer need to use assets from the asset bank in their Digital Brand Template documents. They can now upload their own images. Read more about setting up personal uploads for your Digital Brand Templates here.
You can now make sure a task is completed or the right file is updated before moving on to the next stage. Read more about mandatory tasks here and mandatory asset uploads here.
Align your Brand Guidelines with your brand identity and use your own fonts inside Brand Guidelines, which includes titles, text areas, collections, and table copy. Read more about it here.
You can now add audio and tables to your Brand Guideline pages. Read more about the audio widget here and read more about the table widget here.
Use the search bar to find the Brand Guidelines you're looking for. Read more about it here.
Our integration with Wordpress 5 now includes the support for document assets and offers a UI for configuring Bynder derivatives. Read more about it here.
The Basic Bynder Sitecore Connector allows for pulling assets directly into Sitecore using Bynder reference URLs. The Advanced Bynder Sitecore Connector imports assets from Bynder into the Sitecore library by utilizing the native Sitecore functionality. Both connectors now make use of our Compact View.
Read more about the Bynder Sitecore Connectors here.
Our integration with Drupal 8 now supports our latest version of the Compact View, as well as document assets. Check the integration here.
We’ve updated the Episerver connector to store asset data locally for improved performance, implemented SNS webhooks, and the option to manually update all available assets and metadata. Read more about the integration here.
Use Bynder as your central source of truth for marketing and campaign videos, while quickly and easily publishing them to Vimeo—directly from Bynder. Read more about it here.
The Tray.io automation between Bynder and Workfront enables a configurable asset and data push based on updates in projects, tasks or documents. Read more about it here.
The Bynder connector for Tray.io enables automation of workflows between Bynder and a multitude of tools within the Tray.io ecosystem. Read more about it here.
You can now share the metadata presets you created with other users. Read more about it here.
It’s now up to you if you want auditors to receive email notifications for download or upload requests in your portal. Read more about this configuration here.
Want to add metadata to Digital Brand Template documents before saving them in the asset bank? You can now configure your templates so users have the option to send approved documents to the Waiting Room and apply metadata first. Read more about it here.
Set up visibility restrictions for each Digital Brand Template campaign and make sure the documents for specific campaigns are only visible to relevant users. Read more about it here.
You no longer need to open a document to save, download, or send it to the Waiting Room. Simply click on the settings menu in the documents overview to choose one of these options. Read more about it here.
You can now apply brand colors and text styles to your content in Digital Brand Templates. Read more about it here.
You can now receive a SNS notification when a new Creative Workflow job is created in the portal. Read more about SNS notification here.
When you add an image to your Digital Brand Templates you can now decide whether you want them to fit or fill the frame. Find out how to set it up here.
You can now upload .PSD or .Skitch files with multiple artboards and have them created as individual templates. Save yourself time and read more about it here.
You can now use metaproperty filters inside the Waiting Room. This helps you to find the assets you want to audit more easily. Read more about this here.
Do you have users that should only audit specific upload or download requests? Use metaproperty options to apply visibility restrictions, so that auditors can only see and audit the requests they are responsible for. Read more about it here.
Integrate your Worpress 5 instance with Bynder and seamlessly add your Bynder assets to your Wordpress 5 content. Read more about our integration here.
Our redesigned Compact View comes with a new design and improved user experience. Read more about the Compact View here and try our demo to experience the improvements made.
With our improved version of the Asset Tracker you can now filter the Asset Bank by tracked assets using the advanced filter. This allows you to have a quick overview of what assets are used on different channels.
You can now set your Guides to public and share them with (external) users without them having to login. Also you can now set up guide visibilty restrictions for specific user profiles and user groups. Read more about public guides and guide visibility in Brand Guidelines here.
Are you on the road and you want to share a guide? You can now share your Guides using the Bynder App. Read more about it here.
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