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Provide even more precise feedback with freehand annotation
Leaving detailed and precise feedback directly on visual assets is one of the most critical steps in the creative review process. Whether you’re requesting a designer to crop out part of an image, or need to effortlessly leave timestamped feedback on video footage, Hightail’s commenting feature ensures there is no…
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Side-by-side for creative reviews
There can be many holdups when it comes to reviewing visual content once you’re on round 2+ of a creative review. You might need to reference back to your communications and feedback threads to find out what’s actually changed. Or, perhaps you just simply flip back and forth between opened…
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Bring your clients, employees and creative processes together
TPF Sports—an end-to-end solution for sports teams including licensing, manufacturing, distribution and communication—has about 100 clients, making 60-300 different products each. That large volume, combined with having offices in both Vietnam and Australia, left the organization somewhat vulnerable for costly miscommunications during email exchanges. “We needed a solution that was…
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Why successful teams need producers, not just project managers
When it comes to version control issues, sloppy mistakes and deadlines that keep slipping through the cracks during creative projects, Michelle Kinsman, a true producer at heart and an executive director of production and operations, says that you really need to ask the tough questions: -Did you really understand what…
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10 solutions to 10 typical creative review problems
Making it to the next round of a creative review with your client can be cumbersome, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve collected the top 10 concerns that we hear from creative teams and agencies who are collaborating with their clients. Do any of them sound familiar? Don’t fret,…
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Control your inbox with notification preferences
With nearly 10,000 unread emails currently sitting in my mailbox, I’ll be the first to admit that employees suffer from inbox overload. Hightail recognizes this issue, which is why we’ve designed a solution to help creative teams move the conversation around large, multimedia files out of email and into a…
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Our latest collaboration: Hightail is now OpenText™
In February, we announced the exciting news that Hightail was acquired by OpenText™, a global leader in Enterprise Information Management (EIM). This news opens many new doors for Hightail and our customers. Over the past three years, since the release of Hightail’s creative collaboration features (Hightail Spaces), we’ve designed an…
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3 things to do before your next project kick off call
Let’s say you have a new project for the team. You’ve got the brief, the budget and deadlines. Before you spend the next 30 minutes trying to figure out when everyone will be available for a kick-off call, get the team involved early so that they can come to the…
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Time saving shortcuts from our Hightailers
Here’s a roundup of 5 favorite features from Hightailers that will help you shave a few seconds off regular tasks.
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How to make project management work for your creative team
If you’re a project manager (or maybe your “official” title is actually account manager, client services, marketing manager, traffic manager, producer, etc.), it’s no secret that hundreds of assets in flight with numerous clients – whether internal or external – means you need a set of tools to help keep…
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Maximize productivity, minimize tools with Hightail’s Adobe Plugin
Designers can now ship work & collect feedback without leaving the Adobe Creative Cloud using an intelligent, conversational chatbot UI
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We need to talk about downloads
Whenever you send that first draft of an idea to your client, you always wish you could control the circumstances of how they experience your creation. Maybe the lights are low, the fire is roaring and they have a glass of fine wine in their hands. They are happy, relaxed…
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Get to “yes” faster with approval chains
Creative reviews all share the same goal: that an image, video or design gets a clear green light to be used in a marketing campaign, social message, website or any other relevant format. So why is getting that “yes” from a specific person or multiple parties often so fraught with…
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