MediaValet vs Frontify: Which is a better fit?

Zach Y.: Hi, my name is Zach. I am the creative director of my company. I would give MediaValet a three out of five stars. And for more reviews like this, click the link below. Before using MediaValet, we were using just a run of the mill FTP server. It was a bit clunky. Sometimes it wouldn't connect right. It was hard to have communication that was consistent back and forth with the client, and sometimes there would just be a lot more effort just to send them a file. So moving to MediaValet, it seemed like it was going to be a lot more streamlined. MediaValet allowed it a much more branded portal. It was really easy to show off our own brand and the brand of our clients within the portal itself. It didn't just look like a bunch of command prompt texts, like the FTP site. And then in addition to that, there was things like password protection links, and all right, here's an expiration date for this file so that you only have access for this amount of time. So there was just a lot more customization options available. MediaValet was fairly simple to get started with. You get your own login, access password, et cetera. I wish there was a little bit more options for setting up other members of your team, rather than just having to have a corporate login. But beyond that, it was fairly easy. So if you're looking to get MediaValet, it offers a great branded portal when you're uploading a lot of files to one central space. One thing to look out for is that if you are inviting an outside collaborator, someone who isn't part of your organization, sometimes there can be some bugs when they are trying to upload files. Sometimes it can take three, four or five times to actually get it to come through. But for internal stuff, it works great.

Juan: Hi, I'm Juan. I'm brand strategy manager on a big multinational company with more than 10,000 employees, and my rating of Frontify is four. Before having the Frontify solution, our brand management was mostly based on PDF files that we will share throughout the organization. Frontify help us to have a single source of truth that was digital and it was searchable by all members of organization. We ensured that everyone has the same solution and everyone was on the same page while checking the brand guidelines. When we were reviewing other solutions to have this solve problem to our solution, we decided to choose Frontify because their solution was really user intuitive. As we understood that a lot of people from the organization with different levels of computer management were able to edit and add content. Frontify UI was really useful for us because it was really easy to make changes in the platform and seeing in the moment just live. The beginning of Frontify was quite hard at the beginning in terms of resource intensive, because we needed to migrate all our PDFs into Frontify platform. With the help of several members of our team, we were able to copy and paste all the content that we have from our previous brand guidelines on PDF into Frontify. The good news is that after doing all the migration, all the changes were just done in the moment. I will advise Frontify for all the big companies that has lot of people checking out constantly the brand guidelines, because it ensures a unique source of truth for all the brand guidelines applications. It's really easy. It's really easy to all the brand managers edit the brand guidelines and enter the platform, so you ensure that all the latest editions are there. In our case, we use really the brand guidelines part of Frontify with a lot of advancements in terms of time, editing, and ensuring that everyone is on the same page, applying the brand guidelines.