Customer Appreciation Month 2024 Winners

Customer Appreciation Awards:

Grand Prize Winners

Celebrating our champions

The Portal Prodigy

Company Description: 1/ST is North America’s preeminent Thoroughbred racing and pari-mutuel wagering company and includes the 1/ST RACING & GAMING, 1/ST CONTENT, 1/ST TECHNOLOGY and 1/ST EXPERIENCE businesses while advocating for and driving the 1/ST HORSE CARE mission. 1/ST represents The Stronach Group's continued movement toward redefining Thoroughbred racing and the ecosystem that drives it.

Industry: Sports & Entertainment

This portal is a branded media kit for our Pegasus World Cup 2023 event. It streamlined our ability to share approved assets with media partners while keeping everything on-brand and visually exciting.

Michael Zerbib Sr. Marketing Manager 1/ST

Panel Feedback Michael has been selected as the Portal Prodigy due to his outstanding portal landing design. The use of large, clearly defined icons effectively categorizes content into high-level sections, ensuring intuitive and user-friendly navigation.

The extensive and sophisticated use of branding and color customization enhances the portal's visual appeal, creating a cohesive and professional look. The landing page design excels in making it exceptionally easy for users to quickly identify and access the content they need.

This entry brilliantly combines functionality with aesthetic excellence, providing an exemplary user experience.

Brian Athey Solutions Engineer

Julie Neumeister Senior Customer Marketing Manager

Nicho Saenz Manager, Implementation Americas

Alisha Chakravarty Manager, Account Management - Americas

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The Guardian of the Brand Kingdom Company Description: Affordable Homes & Communities (AHC) is a nonprofit developer that creates and preserves affordable and mixed-income housing in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. AHC builds opportunity by creating quality homes with holistic resident services. We connect residents with onsite services that help transform lives, provide housing stability, and advance the economic resiliency of entire communities.

Industry: Nonprofit We rebranded last fall, and this style guide has been a great point of reference for our staff and external partners. As a nonprofit, we are mission-focused, so we included our new mission, vision, and values along with all of our new branding guidelines, making this guide a one-stop shop. The guide is user-friendly, including many tutorials and tips, and it’s cohesive with our branding.

We created our new brand with a trauma-informed lens, using colors that are pleasing and calming. This style guide showcases the spirit of welcome, opportunity, and renewal that our new branding seeks to create.

Hannah Loder Communications Manager Affordable Homes & Communities

Panel Feedback This extensive and thorough style guide is a marketer’s dream! Hannah and her team have covered every aspect of their branding with several menu options, ranging from the basics to guidelines for screen printing, logo spacing, fonts, templates, and more.

Their use of a GIF in the style guides is excellent and not something that the implementation team has seen leveraged.

This style guide truly sets the standard for our style guide users.

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Brian Athey Solutions Engineer

Julie Neumeister Senior Customer Marketing Manager

Nicho Saenz Manager, Implementation Americas

Alisha Chakravarty Manager, Account Management - Americas

The AI Aficionado YMCA of Honolulu Company Description: As a leading nonprofit organization, the Y supports everyone in our community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.

Industry: Nonprofit

We're always looking for photos that show expressive facial expressions.

Lisa Zhou Creative and Digital Marketing Manager YMCA Honolulu

YMCA of Honolulu

Panel Feedback The phrase “Kids jumping with smiles on their faces” is an ideal AI Visual Search prompt. It checks off all the boxes as a detailed query that precisely narrows down the results to match the searcher’s intent.

Serving as so much more than just traditional search, AI Visual Search offers limitless possibilities for finding exactly what you need.

By using this approach, Lisa and her team have a much easier time finding the perfect photos for their projects.

Brian Athey Solutions Engineer

Julie Neumeister Senior Customer Marketing Manager

Nicho Saenz Manager, Implementation Americas

Alisha Chakravarty Manager, Account Management - Americas

The Workflow Wizard Company Description: Parents as Teachers is a voluntary early childhood development program offering research-based curricula that help families raise children to be healthy, safe, learning and ready for school.

Industry: Education

I really enjoy using Canto’s related files feature. As someone who works with curricula and parent handouts, it is beneficial to have different versions of the same asset, such as translations or visual versions, all in one location. This feature allows me and my team to easily access all versions of a parent handout without having to search for them. I also like how easy it is to link and unlink the related files. The process is not time-consuming and having the link icon in the upper left corner of the thumbnails is helpful.

This increase in efficiency has been extremely beneficial for the content and curricula team.

Angelique Bey Content Manager/Digital Librarian Parents as Teachers

Panel Feedback In a detailed video, Angelique clearly demonstrated how her organization uses Canto's Related Files feature to organize parent handouts.

Handouts often have different versions. With Related Files, if the team makes an edit to one handout, they know all the other versions need to be edited as well. No need to search within Canto; they’re all available in the preview panel.

Thank you, Angelique, for showing us a creative way to use this unique feature.

Learn more about related files here.

Brian Athey Solutions Engineer

Julie Neumeister Senior Customer Marketing Manager

Nicho Saenz Manager, Implementation Americas

Alisha Chakravarty Manager, Account Management - Americas

Customer Appreciation Awards:

Portal Prodigy Honorary Mentions Celebrating noteworthy contributions

University of Chicago Company Description: The University of Chicago is a top-ranked research university that has driven transformative leadership in education since 1890.

With the custom landing page, we have created an easy-to-use interface that offers a convenient solution to messy Box and Tank folders where no one can find anything.

Industry: Higher Education Claire Marshall Digital Asset Manager University of Chicago

Bumkins Company Description: Bumkins was founded on a working mother's need for safer and sustainable baby products. Since 1989, they've been creating fun, functional and stylish familyfriendly products we can all feel good about.

Industry: Consumer Goods

Our portals provide an easy way for our customers, both B2B and B2C, to acquire approved imagery, marketing materials, and documents to streamline the marketing and sales process.

Leyna Segal Digital Creative Support Bumkins

City of Carlsbad Company Description: The City of Carlsbad is ideally situated in north San Diego County. A great climate with beautiful beaches and lagoons, and abundant natural open space combine with world-class resorts, family attractions, well-planned neighborhoods and a charming village atmosphere to create the ideal California experience.

Industry: Government

Using the Portal, we have been able to make available to the public assets from our historical collection. This includes video and audio files that encompass the rich history of the city and provide our residents the ability to trace their own roots in Carlsbad.

Doug Kappel Enterprise Applications Manager City of Carlsbad

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Discover Newport Company Description: Discover Newport is a nonprofit destination management organization dedicated to the promotion of the City of Newport and its eight surrounding townships as a premiere destination for business and leisure travel.

Industry: Tourism We designed our Discover Newport Media Portal to provide our clients with an easy and intuitive navigation of our images. We determined what the most popular image requests were and divided them into their respective categories. By curating 25 of our top photos, clients were able to easily see images that cover the highlights of our destination. We kept the number of images in each category to a minimum so as not to overwhelm our clients and make photo selection a bit faster and easier. The response has been positive and it makes image requests to our marketing department very efficient.

Natalie Manning Creative Director Discover Newport

Thank you and congratulations to our winners!

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