Executive Overview For a quarter of a century, the landscape of Digital Asset Management (DAM) has undergone a relentless, structural metamorphosis. Industry veteran Laurent Groult, reflecting on twenty-five years at the forefront of the field, has witnessed the entire arc of modern archiving: from the crude days of FTP servers replacing physical couriers on bicycle,…
Executive Overview The Digital Asset Management (DAM) landscape is undergoing a structural transformation, driven by the rapid maturation of generative artificial intelligence, shifting vendor paradigms, and a necessary reckoning with how enterprises handle digital governance. As organizations grapple with escalating volumes of rich media and complex multi-channel distribution requirements, the underlying technology stack is evolving…
Executive Overview In the modern digital landscape, the phrase "purchasing a video game" has undergone a profound and deeply unsettling semantic shift. Historically, buying a cartridge, disc, or even a digital file conferred a sense of permanence—an implicit contract that the purchaser owned a playable piece of software that could be enjoyed indefinitely. Today, however,…
Executive Overview As the global tech and media sectors navigate a sweltering mid-year climate, the editorial team at Digital Asset Management News has chosen to mark its 17th anniversary in a uniquely practical fashion. Offering a curated selection of industry insights intended to be "folded up and used as a fan," the milestone celebration doubles…
Executive Overview In the fast-evolving landscape of digital media consumption, public BitTorrent networks continue to serve as a bellwether for consumer demand, regional availability gaps, and digital windowing strategies. Every week, analysts track the shifting tides of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks to understand what global audiences are downloading outside official subscription loops. For the week…
Executive Overview Vietnam’s long-standing reputation as a global safe haven for large-scale digital piracy is facing an unprecedented level of international scrutiny. Earlier this month, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) made headlines by dismantling the core operational network behind HiAnime, a high-profile, globally syndicated anime piracy ring. While this takedown marks a significant milestone…
By Chris Kerr Senior Editor, News, GameDeveloper.com August 6, 2026 Executive Overview In a dramatic about-face that underscores the fundamental friction between Wall Street expectations and the volatile realities of indie game development, Devolver Digital has announced its intention to delist from the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange. The publisher behind…
Executive Overview The digital asset management (DAM) landscape is undergoing its most profound transformation in decades. No longer viewed merely as passive digital filing cabinets or glorified cloud-storage drives, DAM systems are rapidly evolving into enterprise-wide "systems of action." Driven by an unprecedented explosion in content creation, the maturation of artificial intelligence, and tightening regulatory…
Executive Overview The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence and autonomous agents into enterprise software has fundamentally altered how organizations interact with their data repositories. Nowhere is this transformation more palpable—or more fraught with anxiety—than in the realm of Digital Asset Management (DAM). As systems evolve from passive storage archives into active, intelligent participants in…
Executive Overview As enterprises race to integrate artificial intelligence, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs) into their core operations, a quiet crisis is unfolding beneath the surface of corporate IT. For decades, organizations accumulated data silos, fragmented processing pipelines, and patchwork metadata systems that could be papered over with manual interventions, ad-hoc queries, and…
