Wedia's product has been branded Lyvio since release 2026.3.0 (2026-06-08) S31. Much of the behaviour is project-configured (data model, metadata, roles, screens), so capabilities below describe the standard product ("Starter Kit") and documented options; a given customer instance may differ S12 S31. Help-center (Confluence) facts are preferred over marketing where both exist.
Ingestion & storage
- Upload paths: web DAM/portal upload with indexing forms; Creative Workflow workspaces (since 2024.1.0 replacing the old upload function in new projects) S39; REST API single create and asynchronous mass import jobs S15; import from image banks (Unsplash, Shutterstock) S1 S66; Excel import/export of metadata S1; Content Pickers write-back from Adobe CC S26.
- Hot folders / desktop sync client: Unknown (not found). WediaTransfer sends files up to 10 GB to external recipients without a DAM account S85.
- Formats: a long list of image (incl. AI, AVIF, EPS, camera RAW…), video, audio, document and Office/InDesign formats, with full-text extraction for Office, PDF and InDesign S102; 3D, DXF/DWG and 360° image series have dedicated players S41 S1. Allowed extensions can be restricted per project S1.
- Max file size: Not public.
- Versioning: asset version management (create, compare, set current, publish drafts) since 2024.5.0 S38; workspace version history since 2025.3.0 S54.
- Duplicates: duplicate detection with metadata comparison in Creative Workflow (2025.3.0) S54; similar-image search operator in the API S56.
- Storage: moving from local SAN storage ("MediaCloud 1") to a cloud object-storage architecture ("MediaCloud 2") with a documented migration procedure (engine ≥ 2026.2.1) S52. Storage quotas/pricing: Not public.
Metadata & taxonomy
- Fully configurable data model (object structures, properties, tags) managed by Wedia/partners and, since 2026.3.0, by customer admins through Lyvio Config (metadata, facets, roles, UI setups; ~80% of standard configuration needs per vendor) S31.
- Field types: text, number, boolean, date/datetime, file/path, object relations, arrays; localized (multilingual) values S56.
- Controlled vocabularies: hierarchical thesaurus with synonyms and related terms (
WXM_Thesaurusplug-in) S106 S56; dependent/filtered relation fields (2026) S1; custom field validators S1. - Embedded metadata: IPTC/EXIF extraction and transformation rules at insert/update (
DAM_Utilsplug-in, sync or async) S45. XMP write-back: Unknown. - Bulk edit: metadata copy-paste across assets (2026.3.0) S31; API bulk
PATCHon id lists or queries S12. - Translation: DeepL is the default translation engine for metadata (2024.3.0); Lyvio Config integrates DeepL S36 S31.
- Contracts: link contracts to assets (2026.2.0) S32.
Search & discovery
- Full-text search with relevance sorting (toggle since 2024.2), boolean/phrase syntax, facets and saved searches S105 S1 S30.
- AI Search (2026.4.0): semantic + visual vector search, multilingual and typo-tolerant, running alongside classic search (images and selected metadata vectorized) S30 S43.
- Visual similarity: similar-image operator; reverse image search (tutorial) and web "reverse search" of published assets (Content Scoring) S56 S1 S80.
- Facial recognition search (2026.2.0, per asset library, AWS Rekognition-based) S32 S1.
- Asset grouping of adaptations/variations to declutter results (2026.1.1) S33.
AI capabilities
| Capability | Details | |
|---|---|---|
| Auto-tagging / captioning | Multimodal LLM captions powered by Anthropic Claude (2024.3.0), customizable prompt; batch automation on request | S36 S67 |
| Recognition | Objects, concepts, colours, celebrities, landmarks (AI resource types in the model); AWS Rekognition integration | S56 S66 |
| OCR | Advertised in AI Content Intelligence | S75 (help-center detail Unknown) |
| Face recognition | Detect faces, tag people, browse by face (2026.2.0) | S32 |
| Focal point | Automatic focal point at ingestion via a Gemini model (opt-in), used by smartcrop | S46 |
| Background removal | stripped_background AI rendition | S22 |
| Video summary | ia_preview_video_source short MP4 summary rendition | S22 |
| Generative | GenAI variations with customizable prompts (2026.1.1); GenAI Toolkit presets (persona, season, city, studio, packshot harmonizer, prompt-free edits) | S33 S79 |
| Brand compliance | AI Brand Scoring (2026.3.0) and self-service Brand Modeling (2026.4.0): criteria generated from brand references (Gemini), assets scored against guidelines | S31 S30 S44 |
| Semantic search | AI Search (see above) | S30 |
| Governance / opt-out | Claude processing "under AWS"; training/opt-out policy Not public | S67 |
Organization
- Folders/trees and configurable segmentation (by brand, market, team) S109 S75.
- Boards (collaborative collections/carts; convertible into portals) S54 S1.
- Portals: branded pages for internal/external audiences, public or private sharing, themes (2026.2.0), brand-portal sections (editorial, bookmarks), analytics (2025.3.0), deletion and a DAM picker inside portals (2026.4.0) S37 S32 S34 S54 S30.
- User groups reusable across portals, workspaces and approvals (2026.4.0) S30 S49.
- Product view for product-centric assets S1.
Workflow & collaboration
- Creative Workflow (2024.1.0): workspaces with briefs, comment annotations, versions, comparison, statuses; external links; ownership transfer; history S39 S35 S54.
- Approval Workflow (2024.2.0): sequential multi-step validation, bulk approve/reject, notifications S40. Local/global approval for distributed marketing S74.
- Asset comments with mentions (2026.3.0) S31.
- Configurable object workflows/statuses (engine) S17 S1.
- Digital Templates (2025.4.0): localize PSD/PSB masters with locked zones, client-side editing SDK, validation workflow and automated translation (2025.5.0) S34 S53. Web-to-print and InDesign templating (Dylation) S1 S26.
- Creative tool integrations: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign, Figma, Canva, Office 365 pickers S24.
Rights & governance
- Permission model: roles + security rules; permission keys
v1/<domain>/<action>/[modifiers](e.g. update own offline objects), configurable without code since 2021.3.0 S47. - Data segmentation per brand/market S109.
- Usage rights: rights-type and contract resources; rights inherited from contracts; contract attachments (2026.2.0) S56 S32. Automated expiry handling is advertised S79; detailed expiry/embargo behaviour Unknown.
- Watermarking: watermarked renditions and
iwatermarktransform S22 S37; "video tokenization" for high-value assets S78. - Asset statuses management S1; locks on edits S12.
- Audit trail: version/workflow history S38 S54; analytics logs S1. Retention policies: Unknown.
- Brand compliance scoring (see AI) S31.
Distribution & delivery
- Media Delivery module: named renditions and on-the-fly transforms by URL (resize, crop, focal-point/smart crop, fill, background, watermark, extend; JPG/PNG/WebP/HEIC/AVIF/PDF, automatic format) with SEO file names and caching S22 S46.
- CDN: Akamai integration listed S69; new architecture on AWS (Lambda) with CloudFront observed on the demo S34 S60. Vendor claims "30B media files delivered monthly" S62 ("25 billion visuals every month" on another page S77 Unverified figures differ).
- Embeddable players for video, audio, PDF/Office, InDesign, 360° and 3D S41 S107; embed domain allow-listing (
CSPAllowedAncestors) S1. - Sharing: portals, boards, share links, video snippets; WediaTransfer S1 S85.
- Content Picker for CMS/PIM/Office/creative tools, returning CDN-backed URLs S23.
- Web-to-print and e-mailing (Mailjet) S66 S1.
Video & rich media
- Transcoding profiles: 288p (420 kb/s), 432p (960 kb/s), 720p (2,500 kb/s) by default; 1080p (8,000 kb/s) and 2160p (35,000 kb/s) on request S42.
- Video player with chapters, subtitles, call-to-actions, rolls, slicing/snippets; accessible players (RGAA) with audio description and transcription S1 S55 S32.
- Video platforms: YouTube, Dailymotion, Brightcove connectors S66.
- 3D (incl. Dassault 3DEXCITE/3DEXPERIENCE) and 360° series with guidelines for photographers S1 S66.
- Streaming protocols (HLS/DASH) for the current player: Unknown (older internal notes discuss Azure Media Services; not confirmed for current architecture) Unverified S1.
Analytics & reporting
- Content Scoring / Usage Monitoring: views, downloads, geography, device, video completion, load time, per-asset performance; reverse search of where assets are published S76 S80.
- Wedia Analytics module (back-office dashboards, CSV export, admin query view) S1 S55 S33; portal analytics (2025.3.0) S54.
- BI connectors: Power BI, Tableau, Piwik PRO listed S66.
- Delivery analytics retained 12 months per view under the credit model S41.
Administration
- SSO: SAML2, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP; MFA by e-mail code; password policies; IP lock-out S48 S6 S103 S1.
- SCIM: Unknown (not documented).
- Multi-brand: segmentation, multiple portals and brand guidelines S109 S30.
- Configuration UI: Lyvio Config (self-service since 2026.3.0), back-office admin, API Designer, plug-in manager S31 S50.
- UI languages: French, English, German, Spanish (Spanish since 2026.2.0); customers can add others S32.
- Environments: "instance checkout" feature (2026) and DEV/production modes exist S1 S60; sandbox provisioning terms Not public.
- Release cadence: roughly 4–5 releases per year (e.g. 2025.1 → 2025.5; 2026.1 → 2026.4) S28.