Agencies and photo studios
See what to produce for which product, upload against the product record and follow feedback in one place — without access to your DAM or PIM.
The Media Portal is on our roadmap. It is planned to give agencies and photo studios a brief tied to your SKUs, an upload that attaches every file to the right product, versioned review with comments on the asset, and an approval step that ingests the approved file automatically.
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01 · Today
The shot list is a PDF. It does not know which SKUs exist or which assets are missing.
Files land on FTP. Someone matches file names to products by hand.
Feedback spread across threads. Which version was approved? Nobody is sure.
The final file is copied into the DAM manually — or not at all.
02 · Who it is for
See what to produce for which product, upload against the product record and follow feedback in one place — without access to your DAM or PIM.
Brief once, review on the asset itself, approve with one decision that is recorded.
Receive approved assets already linked to the right SKU, with version history.
03 · The planned journey
Six steps between a brief and an approved asset — how they look today and how the Media Portal is planned to handle them.
01 · BRIEF
Receive the brief: which products need which assets, in which specification.
Before
Brief as email or PDF, with no link to live product data.
With PIM Gate
Assignments tied to the actual product records, with asset specifications to download.
02 · UPLOAD
Deliver hi-res images, video and design files.
Before
FTP upload; file names must be matched to products by hand.
With PIM Gate
Product-linked upload, drag and drop, several files at once, with progress.
03 · REVIEW
The brand team reviews; the agency responds.
Before
Email threads, confused versions, no record of decisions.
With PIM Gate
Comments pinned on the asset, clear approve / request-changes actions.
04 · REVISE
Correct and upload a revised version.
Before
The new file overwrites the old one; history is lost.
With PIM Gate
Versioned uploads; previous versions retained on a timeline.
05 · APPROVE
Final approval — the asset enters the catalog.
Before
Approval lost in email; someone copies the file into the DAM.
With PIM Gate
One approval, and the asset is ingested automatically into DAM / PIM, linked to the SKU.
06 · DELIVER
The agency confirms delivery for its billing milestone.
Before
Asking the account manager for a delivery confirmation.
With PIM Gate
A delivery dashboard per brief and an export of approved deliverables.
04 · The planned workflow
The approval is designed to be the handover: once the brand team approves, the asset is planned to move into your DAM or PIM, already attached to its product and with its full version history.
05 · Planned capabilities
Planned: create a brief from a catalog selection, with the required asset types per product and specifications to download.
Planned: agencies upload against the product record, so no file ever has to be matched by name.
Planned: every upload becomes a new version; earlier versions stay on the timeline.
Planned: comments pinned to a point on the image, answered by the agency in the same place.
Planned: approval hands the asset to your DAM or PIM, linked to its SKU, and records the decision in the audit log.
Planned: status per brief for brand team and agency, and an export of approved deliverables for handover and billing.
Also on the roadmap for the platform: AI-assisted asset tagging.
06 · Available on the platform
While the inbound Media Portal is on the roadmap, the assets you already have are distributed through PIM Gate today: product and media viewers and asset metadata extraction are live in the platform, and customers find images and data sheets in the Customer Portal. Collections, share links and bulk download with audit trail follow in 2026.
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Product and media viewers | LIVE |
| Asset metadata extraction | LIVE |
| Customer Portal with entitled assets | LIVE |
| Collections, share links, bulk download with audit trail | 2026 |
07 · Early access
We are building the Media Portal together with a small group of brand and product-data teams. If agency assets are a daily problem for you, tell us how your process runs today — your workflow will influence what we build first.
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08 · FAQ
Distribute approved assets to customers.
How PIM Gate handles assets today.
What comes next, and when.
Put a gate between your catalog and chaos.