Digital Asset Management

Spaces are virtual private rooms where teams can collaborate. Anyone can create a space and manage it. To add people you simply drag and drop them into it. You can assign roles and control what they can do there: view, edit, download, share.

Spaces are a place to store a team’s files, but they are much more. Spaces can have their own metadata rules, labels, cropping presets - or they can inherit them from another space.

Spaces come alive when you add comments. Each space has its thread of conversation. Reviews, usage notes - or a simple thumbs-up - make approvals fast and friendly.

The Chorus comments module adds discussion threads to every space, folder and file. By moving the conversation to where the files are worked on they turn a file store into a workspace.

Comments are great for leaving review notes as part of workflow, usage notes as part of a tracking process, they can be a checklist for a team project, or a place to leave a thumbs-up to say a project is done.

In Chorus every folder and collection can be shared - even smart collections.

Sharing is as easy as dragging a person onto the folder and choosing what they can do. Un-sharing is as simple as dragging them back.

When sharing you never lose control of what other people can do with your files. You can give permission to edit, delete, download, publish, share on to other people. If you don’t want them to do these things with your files - don’t give them permission to.

Chorus makes repurposing images simple and intuitive. Images, videos, documents and audio can be converted, videos can be resized, images can be cropped - including in batches.

Each space can have presets. No-one has to remember what size a Twitter banner is; everyone will get it pixel-perfect every time.

Chorus supports derivative versions, where your settings like cropping or converting the format are applied - and they automatically track changes to the original file.

Chorus has Shared Links: themed micro-sites that share the contents of a folder through a normal web link. They can be lightly branded from the Chorus UI or deeply branded by editing the web-templates.

Shared links are great for quickly sharing files with external partners. They can be open to the world or locked to a few email addresses, and your partners won't need to register their own Chorus account.

If you have access to a web developer you can create your own themes using Git, handlebars templates and SCSS.

Chorus includes a search engine that works with keywords, labels, text, dates and trees. You can create your own fields and gather them into panels.

Each space can have its own metadata definitions to help teams with different needs, and they can also share panels when needed.

Editing files in batches is easy to do in a few clicks - and if you tag a folder, all the files in the folder will get tagged too, using intelligent overlays.

There’s so much more we haven’t mentioned, like AI tagging, guided search facets, GPS location maps, and industry standards we read and write. If you're serious about metadata, Chorus goes far beyond the capabilities of most DAMs.

Chorus has a powerful search engine that can sift through huge amounts of metadata. In performance tests, we regularly check it works with 28 million tags in 5000 fields - in around 4 million files!

Finding a folder is instant, thanks to our path search bar. It picks out the place in Chorus you're looking for, and offers suggestions as fast as you can type.

The same search engine powers smart collections: saved searches that look like folders, but automatically update when the results change. They are incredibly useful for all kinds of admin tasks and workflow.

Chorus’s workflow module makes managing file requests quick and easy.

If someone wants to use your files, they put in a request telling you which files they want to use and what they want to do with them.

If you agree you can reply approve the requests - or not, if you don’t want to. Once you approve, the files get shared with them with the permissions you agreed.

You maintain complete control. You can remove files from the request or reject some permissions, and you can change your mind at any point afterwards and stop sharing the files.

Each space has a log recording what everyone has been up to. Every time a file is moved, edited, deleted, shared, the log records it and who did it. Uploads, downloads, new team-members - everything the team would need to know about the project.

An entry in the log can be annotated to provide context. This extremely useful for tracking where files are shared or downloaded. If a file needs to be recalled a note in the activity log will provide an audit trail.

The activity log is fully searchable by person, activity, time, date and notes. Once you’ve found the logs you need, you can download them all to a spreadsheet.

Chorus keeps comprehensive usage data and has a powerful stats dashboard. We have chosen the most useful, simple-to-understand metrics and graph them, so you can keep on top of what is going on in your site—and each of your spaces.

Sessions, views, downloads are graphed by date for each space and you can get a list of most-downloaded files.

Shared links get the same treatment: graphs for sessions, views, downloads and most-downloaded. Plus, for private links, you can check which emails addresses have and haven’t viewed the link yet.

All the stats can be exported to a spreadsheet and you can receive a weekly report straight to your email inbox.