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How to collaborate across individuals and teams in Hightail
These days, creative teams can be pretty complex. It’s common to see senior and junior team members, internal and external stakeholders, third-party vendors and contingent workers all working together on the same project. The good news is that Hightail is built for collaboration, no matter what the makeup of your…
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Remote collaboration built for creatives
Keep your teams organized. Manage creative projects with tools made for visual content. Start a project to manage creative assets, feedback, decisions and approvals in one place. That’s the power of Hightail.
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The 6-Steps Creatives Use to Collaborate Remotely
The last two years accelerated our move to hybrid work, but that’s not when remote collaboration started. With a growing reliance on digital tools, we’ve been working together across vast distances for a number of years. But some creatives still use collaboration methods best suited for in-person offices. That means…
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5 ways our Adobe extension cuts down on distractions
Stay in the zone with our Adobe extensions Creatives know that it’s all about getting into the fabled ‘zone.’ We all have different strategies for it – some of us block off our calendars, some of us jam to our favorite playlists and some of us pray to the creative…
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Just one more thing…
Approved! approved. Yes. Sure. Go ahead. Gone are the days of needing a handwritten signature on a creative proof. With a hodgepodge of links, half used project management tools and email being the primary method of moving through the creative process, a formal line of approval can be tricky to…
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Let’s get this project started
Whether you’re a project manager at a creative agency servicing many clients with multi-media formats, or a mean and lean three-person stop-motion production shop, everyone needs a way to keep creative, teams and clients organized. We have customers developing hundreds of assets in flight at any moment with tight deadlines…
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Automate repetitive tasks by connecting Hightail to your other favorite apps using Zapier
Why do busy work when you can get your favorite apps to work together and do it for you? Hightail Teams or Business accounts can now connect to Zapier to automate many tasks tied to other apps available in the Zapier marketplace. (There are currently more than 3,000 of them.)…
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Decide which emails to receive (and which to skip) with Hightail notification preferences
Are you the type of person who keeps every email that you send or receive? According to a Campaign Monitor article, that means you add on 121 emails a day—for a grand total of 44,165 each year. That’s a lot of email to sift through if you’re looking for feedback…
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Need to receive files? Hightail Uplink to the rescue for when others need to share files with you
Do you ever run into hurdles when you need to receive large files from someone you’re collaborating with? Maybe they don’t have a file-sharing solution that they use. Or perhaps they are bumping against the inability to compress the file enough to get it through email. Running into issues like…
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6 ways the Hightail plugin for Adobe saves you time
When it comes to creative design, the little things you do that get tangled up in processes can add up to big chunks of lost time and lost opportunities for creativity. In our recent survey with Digiday, 93 percent of respondents said they sometimes run over the original allotted time…
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Spaces: Your one-stop shop for creative collaboration
We’ve all done it. You’re working on an important piece of creative content, and you suddenly realize you forgot to incorporate some feedback from one of the many project stakeholders. … And so the frantic email search begins. When we released Spaces in late 2015, we wanted to help customers…
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Go beyond the folder structure: Everything you need to know to organize your content in Hightail
Traditional file and folder systems, like you’re used to working with on your computer desktop, can be a great way for you to store your content. But that kind of storage isn’t optimized for modern, collaborative workflows—which is important for the content creation review and approval process. To facilitate that…
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What to expect when you receive large files in Hightail
We talk all the time about how easy it is to share large, multimedia files using Hightail. But you might not know how incredibly easy it is for your file recipients to access and download those files. So, let’s walk through the recipient experience when you send a file using…
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How to keep your content secure and under control (even when collaborating)
Hightail makes it easy to share large files with both internal and external collaborators. But just because you’re sharing content with someone for review, feedback or approvals, that doesn’t always mean you want them to have full access to do anything they want with those files. To prevent files from…
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Creative reviews for digital media just got easier with HTML previews
My fellow marketers and webmasters: Who here needs to review email content? Web page content? If your hand is raised, you know the drill. Pull up the HTML email content or web page in one screen. Have another screen open with your Basecamp ticket. Spell out every little change that…
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