MediaValet

Pros: MediaValet is very intuitive for the user, and the search function works well, combining both keywords and meta descriptors with visual themes inside the photos.

Cons: The new interface introduced in 2025 makes it more cumbersome to view images in a large window, which takes more time to evaluate and select photos for specific uses.

Pros: It's a great site for file sharing and asset management. It allows us to distribute files internally and externally easily.

Cons: The new redesign is a step backwards. It's a classic case of something being more streamlined but at the cost of usability. I think it's harder to find certain things than it was before, and coworkers constantly ask me to help them understand the new layout.

Pros: The libraries that are easily accessible and the ease of search. Customer support is quick to respond, typically within 12 hours if not sooner.

Cons: If there is one thing I would change it's making the display setting stick. ie Change to display 200 images, download an image, then display reverts back to 50 images.

Pros: I liked how easy it was to organize and find assets with MediaValet. The search and tagging features are powerful, and sharing through portals and links makes collaboration smooth. The onboarding and support team were also excellent.

Cons: The interface can feel a bit clunky at first, and uploading large files sometimes caused delays or errors. The mobile experience and gallery customization are also fairly limited.

Pros: Everything is easy to find and searchable. Downloads are easy, web portals are fairly easy to work with.

Cons: It is a little difficult to rename a file. Links, especially public ones, are a little chunky to work with.

Pros: I was recently testing out the search, and was actually pretty impressed at how well it pulled up findings that weren't related to tags. I could type in 'backpack' and get photos of people wearing backpacks-- far more advanced than I was expecting.

Cons: Dislike the inability to change the file name after upload. It's not the most user friendly site. Ultimately there's a lot that can be done within MV, and there's a learning curve.

Pros: It allows storing files such as images, photos, and documents required by the team to monitor ongoing work or activities in the field. Additionally, it includes descriptions that help explain the uploaded images or documents, enabling the team to better understand the conditions in the field without needing to be physically present.

Cons: Sometimes, some uploaded files are difficult to find or get deleted, requiring them to be reuploaded.

Pros: The ability to host photos belonging to a large group while also including all the necessary details about the photos. I like the bulk edits when you are uploading a number of photos at once.

Cons: Sharing photos from mediavalet by creating a gallery is a bit slow, and the accompanying emails for each photo you share are a bit tedious. When embedding photos, it would be nice to have a way to pull a photo directly from Mediavalet instead of downloading, storing externally and uploading.

Pros: Archive searchability organization accessibility. Embedded Web page /blog creation

Cons: Length of time for uploads. Clunkiness of platform. Poor mobile performance.

Pros: Customizable portals, lots of meta data, tracking capabilities, and supports a variety of formats.

Cons: Somewhat clunky format, limitations on changing file names, no real mobile solution. Search function doesn't work as well as it should.

Pros: Easy access, useful tools and filters to find what you are searching for

Cons: Some files may be slower to start downloading

Pros: Desktop uploader easy to use, drag and drop function is great

Cons: mobile version not friendly to use for MediaValet link, always go back to index page when switch to mobile version

Pros: The thing that attracted me to MediaValet was the file structure interface for categorizing files. Very similar to a computer file structure which added some familurarity.

Cons: Some features like sharing with lightboxes and galleries can get a little confusing as well as making files available to non users.

Pros: It's easy to use, it has many options and the MediaValet team is very professional and helpful.

Cons: It takes a long time to set it up and we had to collaborate with many people in our organization to get started.

Pros: I like that I can send a link to someone to view a piece of content. I also like that it can handle large video files.

Cons: The navigation is not super intuitive, but if you use it more frequently than you remember where to go for functions. When you upload multiple files, such as video, you can't enter all metadata at once if it is the same for all.

Pros: Really helpful for organizing all our marketing assets

Cons: Some functionality is not as easy to use as expected and I wish it had the ability to allow non-accountholders to upload items if I were to share a link for that.

Pros: Easy to set up, very intuitive. Easy to train users. Easy to setup administrative policies for vendors and internal users, so that only the pertinent assets are available to the individuals.

Cons: The programming doesn't like hyphens in part numbers. Our company utilizes hyphens in the part number, and when searching, the returns do not always show all of the assets.

Pros: Bulk uploading, CDN links, categorizations

Cons: CMS integrations, Sync of data is having a problem

Pros: What don't I like! This is by far one of the best DAMs! I love the ability to easily create categories, folders, the ability to assign photos to multiple categories. Portals are amazing. I love the abitity to download image sizes directly from the platform and save sizes regularly used

Cons: I wish there was a way to directly import from other photo librarys; drop box, google drive. I also wish portals could include categories like the regular folders do. I also wish there was a better mobile suite.

Pros: We appreciate that MediaValet makes organizing and accessing our images and videos a breeze. The new AI features as well have really added to our ease of access for finding specific images. Also, the ability to create custom templates to download images in different resolutions and dimensions is fantastic.

Cons: I know that it is just in BETA, but the UI between the classic version of MediaValet and the new AI powered HOTDAM is too different that it causes issues for users to re-adjust their understanding of the platform

Pros: I like that it houses all of our media under one roof that makes it easy to share across departments.

Cons: For new users navigating the upload process is a bit cumbersome.

Pros: There are lots of organizational and customizable options available making it easy to create options that work for your company.

Cons: The search engine needs some fine tuning. Infrequent users that don't know the inventory well often are unable to track down what they are looking for. Hopefully the AI implementation of visual recognition will help with this in the new Hot DAM. I would also love the option to upload associated assets that DO NOT show in a search. We have editable files that we don't want everyone to easily access.