Pain:  When working with external photographers or suppliers, managing the intake of content, especially high-volume images and videos, can be cumbersome. It often requires manual intervention to upload files to the appropriate systems, or worse, content might accidentally be sent to the wrong destination, leading to delays, confusion, or errors.

Pill:  MediaDropBox, MediaHub, in-camera WiFi

Description:  Iceman Media’s MediaDropBox acts as a central hub for file intake and automates the delivery of content to multiple systems simultaneously. Each photographer can send images directly from their camera via Wi-Fi, and these images are automatically routed to the specific systems relevant to their job’s workflow. This eliminates the need for manual uploads, dramatically speeding up the delivery time of newly captured images and reducing the risk of files being sent with missing, wrong or incomplete file information, significantly improving efficiency and accuracy.

Proof:  Switching from our FTP-based workflows to the MediaDropBox and MediaHub services has been like night and day. Images now arrive in almost real-time which has been a real boost especially for national event coverage. And the improved metadata has been very useful in helping us take advantage of this speed. Overall, this has been an impactful project, the results of which we have been sharing with our sister publications.

Keywords: External suppliers, Photographers, Image / Video intake, Share jobs, Coworkers, Delivery routing, Delivery Copies 

• Image editors add new tasks/jobs in MediaHub which creates a new job for a photographer and one coworker

• The external photographer sends his images directly to the MediaDropBox via Camera WiFi

• MediaDropBox instructs for images from that photographer’s camera to be automatically delivered to 4 different content systems

• Each system receives the images at the same time

• Image editors can change image destination settings at any time

• Image editors can automatically add keywords, descriptions, etc. to images as they are received so the photographers don't have to do so.