If content is the lifeblood of your website or application, images and videos form the heart that makes it tick and creates an emotional connection with your audience. But, by using images and videos to make the content visually engaging and meet your conversion goals, you face a new challenge: managing your digital assets. Because the images and videos are created by different teams for different channels, chaos is set to ensue. Adopting a DAM strategy, and finding the right tools, is an ideal way to ensure efficient management, streamlined operation and optimized delivery of your digital assets.

Digital Asset Management (DAM) isn’t simply a storage solution or a way to consolidate and organize images and videos. In reality, it helps orchestrate unique customer experiences, at scale, across various channels. Taking a collaborative cross functional approach to digital asset management will ensure wide adoption across organizations, streamline internal operations, and improve team collaboration.

Since your audience lives on the internet now and demands visual stories, your media library must meet this demand. Managing a growing media library requires a central hub from which teams can search and browse all digital assets, tag and organize files, manipulate and distribute assets, and track performance.

This central hub needs to be powerful and easy-to-use, enabling your organization to scale rapidly, without encountering bottlenecks that delay your time to market.

That’s why a digital asset management (DAM) solution is so critical, and why choosing the right digital asset management solution can be the difference between creating compelling, engaging experiences and stories for your customers, and slogging through workflow inefficiencies.

There is a direct link between the speed and quality of delivered media assets to increased user engagement, higher conversion rates, and improved SEO—making page load times especially critical. Yet, there has been an 85% increase in page weight over the past three years. Learn best practices in optimizing for page load speed, and take away concrete actions you can use to immediately improve media performance on your website and/or app.

Consumer media consumption is rapidly shifting from text to visual images. Website content that includes compelling images averages nearly twice as many views as text, and four times as many customers would rather watch a video about a product than read about it.

This whitepaper examines the importance of visual media to your online publishing and marketing efforts, and how you can reconcile the ‘need for speed’ with the need to provide an engaging site experience to your visitors and potential customers.

Consumer media consumption is rapidly shifting from text to visual images. Website content that includes compelling images averages nearly twice as many views as text, and four times as many customers would rather watch a video about a product than read about it.

There has been explosive growth in the adoption of visual media to dramatically improve online user experience, resulting in higher engagement and conversions. However, visual media can also weigh down your web pages, increase page load times, deflate your search rankings and turn visitors away. There has been an 85% increase in page weight over the past three years, and 75% of today’s websites are images and video, thus making the tradeoff between speed and engagement a tough one. Particularly, as Google is placing more emphasis on page load speed – particularly for mobile users – as a search ranking factor.

This whitepaper examines the importance of visual media to your online publishing and marketing efforts, and how you can reconcile the ‘need for speed’ with the need to provide an engaging site experience to your visitors and potential customers. The whitepaper offers numerous best practices for optimizing visual media on your websites, enabling you to provide both a fast and engaging online experience to your target audiences.