Video DAM and media asset management (MAM) platforms

Ajaris is the DAM suite of Orkis, an Aix-en-Provence software publisher acquired by Volaris Group (Constellation Software) in December 2024. It manages photo, video and brand libraries for about 570 clients in government, defence, aerospace, luxury and tourism, and is offered as French-hosted private SaaS or on-premises for sensitive environments.

Best for: French public bodies, defence and aerospace organisations and premium brands that need a sovereign-hosted or on-premises photo and video library.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: YesSaaS, On-premises

Iconik, a cloud-native media asset management platform owned by media technology group Backlight, helps video-heavy teams ingest, search, review and publish media while keeping originals in their own cloud or on-premises storage. It suits broadcasters, sports organisations, publishers and in-house video teams that work in Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut Pro.

Best for: Broadcasters, sports organisations, publishers and in-house video teams that need cloud media management on top of their own storage.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

Reuters Imagen, formerly Imagen, is a cloud media asset management and distribution platform for sports bodies, broadcasters, archives and enterprises. Thomson Reuters acquired the Cambridgeshire company in 2023 and runs it inside Reuters News. It specialises in large video archives, live ingest, AI clipping and controlled distribution of media to rights holders, partners and fans.

Best for: Sports bodies, broadcasters, publishers and archives that need to manage, clip and distribute large video and photo collections to partners and audiences.

EnterpriseEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

Mediaflow, an Uppsala-based Swedish software company, combines DAM, an online video platform with live streaming, and brand asset management in one Nordic-hosted service. It serves more than 850 organisations, including many Swedish municipalities and public agencies, and fits communications teams that need GDPR consent control, accessible video and simple CMS publishing.

Best for: Nordic public sector bodies and mid-sized organisations whose communications teams manage images, video and consent records together.

Mid-marketSMBEU hosting: YesSaaS

MediaValet, a Vancouver-based cloud DAM vendor owned by private equity firm STG since April 2024, serves more than 500 organisations and 70,000 users. Built natively on Microsoft Azure with selectable regions, it suits Microsoft-centric enterprises, universities and non-profits that need AI tagging, face recognition, video transcription and external portals.

Best for: Microsoft-centric organisations, including universities and non-profits, that want an Azure-hosted DAM with AI tagging, transcription and external portals.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: YesSaaS

Orange Logic, an Irvine, California DAM vendor founded in 1998, sells a highly configurable enterprise DAM and media asset management platform, historically branded Cortex. It suits media, entertainment, nonprofit and large brand organisations with complex rights and multi-team needs, and stands out for configurability, branded portals, rights enforcement and its Agent Studio for AI agents.

Best for: Media, entertainment, nonprofit and global brand organisations with complex rights, large video libraries and many teams on one DAM instance.

EnterpriseMid-marketEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

PhotoShelter for Brands, formerly Libris, is a New York-based SaaS DAM and content distribution platform used by brands, sports organisations and universities. It combines AI visual search and tagging of people, players and logos with real-time workflows and social distribution from its Socialie acquisition. Clearhaven Partners is its majority investor, and it absorbed UK vendor Third Light in 2022.

Best for: Sports organisations, universities and consumer brands that need fast photo and video distribution to media, partners and social channels.

Mid-marketEnterpriseEU hosting: UnknownSaaS

Scaleflex is a European SaaS vendor, founded around its Cloudimage image CDN in 2016, whose Scaleflex DAM (formerly Filerobot) combines asset management, AI enrichment and agents, and optimised image and video delivery. It suits e-commerce, retail and media teams that want DAM and high-volume visual delivery from one EU-hosted platform.

Best for: European e-commerce, retail and media teams that need a DAM combined with optimised, high-volume image and video delivery.

Mid-marketEnterpriseEU hosting: YesSaaS