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Your media and content panels power every donor experience you create. It was time we gave them both a more suitable home.
If you’ve spent any time inside Ovrture, you know that the images, videos, PDFs, and documents you upload are the building blocks of every stewardship report, cultivation site, and survey you send. They’re the photos that make a donor smile. The impact videos that tell the story your data can’t. The brand assets that keep everything looking polished.
And then there are your content panels — the reusable building blocks that bring those donor experiences together. The narrative sections, the impact stories, the calls to action that you build once and deploy across dozens (or hundreds) of personalized touchpoints.
Managing both of these has never gotten the attention it deserved — until now.
We’ve been rebuilding our file management experience from the ground up, and we’re excited to share what’s coming: the Ovrture File Manager — a completely reimagined way to work with your media and your content panels, all powered by a single, unified interface.
Why We Built This
Over the past year, we heard consistent feedback from clients. Finding the right image took too many clicks. Organizing assets across brands felt clunky. And when it came to content panels, the experience of browsing, selecting, and managing them felt disconnected from the rest of the platform.
Fair points, all of them.
So we went back to the drawing board. We studied how teams actually work with their files and content panels day-to-day, and we looked at the content management tools that fundraising professionals already know and love (looking at you, Google Drive). What we came up with is a more powerful and easier-to-use system — one that works the same way whether you’re managing your media or your content panels.
What’s New: The Media Library
First things first: what was previously called “Digital Assets” has been renamed to Media Library — a more intuitive name that better reflects how teams think about their images, videos, documents, and brand assets. It’s the industry standard term, it’s familiar to anyone who’s used a CMS, and it just makes more sense.
But the name is the smallest change. Here’s what the new experience looks like.
A Familiar, Intuitive Interface
We took cues from tools you already use. The new Media Library features a left-hand folder tree for quick navigation, breadcrumb paths so you always know where you are, and the ability to browse and open folders exactly the way you’d expect. Click a folder name to open it in the main view. Click the caret to expand it in the navigation tree. No surprises, no learning curve.
Image Thumbnails at a Glance
No more guessing which file is which based on a filename alone. Image previews now appear right in the file list, so you can visually browse your assets the same way you’d scroll through a photo library. For videos, PDFs, and other file types, we’ve introduced clean, distinct icons so everything is immediately recognizable.
Smarter Organization Tools
Drag-and-drop file management is here, along with bulk actions that work cleanly — select multiple files with shift-click, tag them, move them, or delete them in one action. We’ve also refined the tagging system: tags now display as rounded pills that are visually distinct from buttons, stay neatly within a single row, and can be managed in bulk through an improved tagging modal.
Fast and Helpful Search
We’ve added search functionality as well, so now you can quickly search for the content you need (by filename or by tags) without looking through multiple folders. When you search for an asset or content panel, you’ll see its folder location right in the results — so you can find what you need and understand your organization at the same time.
A Cleaner, Tighter Design
We’ve refined the entire visual experience. Tighter row spacing. Consistent icons sized to proper view boxes. A polished tile view for when you want to see everything laid out. Double-click any file for an instant preview. The details matter, and we sweat them.
What’s New: A Unified Content Panel Experience
Here’s where things get really interesting.
The new File Manager isn’t just for media — your library of content panels will be getting the same upgrade, featuring the same search, drag & drop, and tagging functionality and intuitive layout to help you keep your reusable content panels organized. Whether you’re selecting an image for a stewardship report or choosing a content panel to add to a cultivation site, you’re benefitting from the same revamped tool.
One Interface, Built Once, Used Everywhere
This was a deliberate design decision and one we’re particularly proud of. Rather than building a separate, stripped-down file picker for content panels, we built the File Manager as a single responsive component. When it appears in a smaller context — like a modal inside the site editor — it adapts gracefully, but the core experience stays the same.
The result: your team learns one interface and knows how to navigate files and content panels across the entire platform. No more context-switching. No more remembering which workflow applies where.
Content Panel-Specific Actions
While the browsing and organizing experience is shared, content panels retain the actions that make them unique. From the Content Panels area, you can:
- Create new content panels directly (rather than uploading a file)
- Edit a content panel inline or open it in a new tab for focused work
- Duplicate an existing content panel to use as a starting point
These actions appear naturally within the same File Manager interface — so it feels seamless rather than bolted on.
Adding Content Panels to Sites, Reports, and Surveys
When you’re building a site, report, or survey and need to add a content panel, you’ll now see the full File Manager experience in context. Browse your folders, search by name or tag, preview what you’re selecting — all without leaving the editor. The same goes for replacing media assets: the “Replace Media” flow now uses the same familiar File Manager interface.
Built for How You Actually Work
One of the design principles we kept coming back to: consistency reduces cognitive load. Fundraising teams are busy. They shouldn’t need to learn multiple file pickers or remember different workflows depending on what they’re doing in the platform.
With the new File Manager, it’s one tool, built once, used everywhere. Whether you’re an application admin organizing thousands of assets across brands, a gift officer pulling together a donor report, or a stewardship coordinator browsing content panels for this quarter’s impact update — the experience is the same.
See It in Action
We’ve put together a short walkthrough so you can see the File Manager in action before it launches.
Coming Soon
The new File Manager and unified Content Panel experience are currently in development and will be rolling out to all Ovrture clients in the coming weeks. As always, our team will be available for hands-on training and support to make sure the transition is seamless.
If you’re a current client, keep an eye on your inbox — we’ll share more details as we get closer to launch.
If you’re not yet using Ovrture and want to see what a purpose-built donor engagement platform looks like — File Manager included — we’d love to show you. Schedule a demo
Have questions about the File Manager or ideas for what you’d like to see? Reach out to your Ovrture contact or drop us a line at contact@ovrture.com. We’re always listening.
Remy Erkel
Assistant Account Executive, Client Engagement
Remy Erkel
Assistant Account Executive, Client Engagement
As part of the client engagement team, Remy continually engages with key contacts to ensure smooth adoption of Ovrture, helping fundraising teams become expert Ovrture users. He guides clients through every step of the onboarding process, helping new users get up-and-running and ensuring that experienced users can make the most of Ovrture’s powerful features. Remy believes that anyone and everyone can be a digital expert with the right support and training, regardless of their previous technology experience.
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