Find. Manage. Connect.
Your media, wherever it lives.
COMYAN helps news publishers find, manage and connect images, articles, pages, agency content, audio and video — whether they are stored in COMYAN or in existing systems.
Independent DAM · AI Search · AI Memory · Publishing Integrations
Discover content within COMYAN and across connected sources.
A complete media system for professional news publishing.
Keep editorial content accessible as systems evolve.
Manage your assets in COMYAN, or make content in existing repositories discoverable through AI Memory.
One platform. Three roles.
Every publisher has a different technology landscape. COMYAN adapts to yours — from a complete media management system to intelligent search across existing repositories.
Manage
COMYAN Media System
A complete Digital Asset Management platform for images, graphics, agency text, articles, pages, audio and video. Built for the complexity of professional news publishing.
Explore Media SystemFind
AI Search & AI Memory
Discover content through keywords, meaning and visual understanding — within COMYAN or across existing CMS, DAM and archive systems.
Explore AI SearchConnect
Publishing Integrations
Connect editorial, production, archive and distribution systems. Keep your content accessible as your technology landscape evolves.
Explore IntegrationsUse all three capabilities together — or start with the one you need most.
Trusted by publishers worldwide
Your independent media and content backbone.
COMYAN Media System manages the full range of editorial content — from incoming agency material to published articles, print pages, images and multimedia. It connects content with the systems that create, edit, publish and reuse it.
Built for publishing content
Manage images, graphics, agency text, structured editorial articles, pages, PDFs, audio and video — including their metadata and relationships.
Independent of your CMS
Your media archive remains available when editorial or production systems change. COMYAN has supported publishers through multiple generations of publishing technology.
Connected editorial workflows
Ingest, retrieve, transform and distribute content through integrations with newsroom, CMS, production and delivery systems.
Cloud or on-premises
Deploy COMYAN in your own infrastructure or as a managed Azure-based service, according to your operational requirements.
THE CONTENT BACKBONE
A stable core for changing publishing systems.
Editorial systems evolve. Production technologies change. New publishing channels emerge. COMYAN connects them through an independent content backbone — keeping editorial assets accessible, searchable and reusable across technology generations.
COMYAN
Media System
Independent Content Backbone
Content Sources
- News Agencies
- Photographers & Image Sources
- External Media & Archives
Editorial & Production
- Print CMS
- Digital CMS
- Editorial & Layout Systems
Publishing & Distribution
- Websites & Apps
- ePaper & Digital Editions
- B2B & Content Syndication
Media Workflows
- Video & Podcasts
- Media Processing
- Search & Reuse
Connect systems
Bring editorial, archive, production and distribution technology together through proven publishing integrations.
Preserve continuity
Keep content accessible and reusable as CMS platforms, production workflows and publishing channels evolve.
Remain independent
Maintain a consistent media backbone without tying the entire publishing environment to one technology vendor.
Select text. Find images.
Find images for your article directly in your CMS. Matching Images is our most important editorial AI Search use case.
Matching Images
1. Select the text
Select text in the main CMS window. The COMYAN widget detects your selection and displays a blue “Find images” button.
2. Find relevant images
Click “Find images” to start an AI-based search for contextually relevant images, including current agency photos and historical archive images.
3. Refine within the widget
For breaking news, the initial results are often already very good. Refine the search further within the widget when needed.
Designed to save editorial time: editors stay in their CMS working environment throughout the workflow.
Implemented in production with LivingDocs. Successfully tested with WordPress. Compatibility with other CMS environments must be assessed separately.
Search by meaning. Search by image. Search by words.
Traditional search depends on what was recorded in metadata. COMYAN AI Search goes further, combining keyword search with semantic understanding, visual content and image similarity to discover relevant assets that conventional searches can miss.
Visual Search
Describe what you want to see — a person, an action, a scene or a mood — even when those details were never entered as metadata.
Concept Search
Find content by meaning and context rather than relying exclusively on exact search terms.
Visual Filters
Refine results using visual characteristics such as the number of people, expressions, actions or scene details.
Similar Images
Start from any image result, including a Matching Images result, to retrieve visually similar images. Find alternative photographs, different variants and images from the same series.
Tolerant Name Search
Find names despite spelling variations, transliterations and common typing errors.
See what ordinary keyword search can miss.
Example editorial searches using keywords and visual filters.
“merz and selenskyj / shaking hands”
“A crowded city street on a rainy evening”
“a group of youths looking at their mobile phones”
Classic search and AI-enhanced search work together in the same editorial workflow.
One search does not require one repository.
Give your existing systems a common memory.
Publishers often have valuable content spread across several CMS, DAM and archive systems. COMYAN AI Memory creates a shared, intelligent search index across these repositories — without requiring the original assets to be migrated into COMYAN.
The existing systems remain responsible for their content. COMYAN makes that content discoverable through a consistent search experience.
Keep your existing systems
Introduce intelligent cross-system discovery without replacing every existing repository.
Find content across silos
Search relevant editorial content across connected sources through one consistent interface.
Stay independent
Keep your options open as CMS, DAM and production systems evolve.
Indexing / synchronisation
COMYAN AI Memory
Unified Index · Metadata · Semantic & Visual Search
Your systems will change. Your content should remain accessible.
For more than three decades, COMYAN has connected editorial and production technology from many different vendors. This independence helps publishers modernise their workflows without repeatedly replacing the media archive or sacrificing access to existing content.
More than 30 integrations
Experience connecting newsroom, CMS, DAM, production and distribution technology across diverse publishing environments.
Built for long-term change
Replace or upgrade editorial systems while retaining a consistent content-management and discovery platform.
UI, Widget & APIs
Give editors powerful search capabilities in the COMYAN interface or an embedded newsroom widget, while supporting deeper integrations through APIs.
COMYAN combines the flexibility of an independent specialist platform with the convenience of integration into editorial workflows.
Available search capabilities depend on the interface and implementation. We can discuss API support for your workflow.
Proven at scale
Continuity across publishing generations.
20+ YEARS. AND JUST GETTING STARTED.
Two decades of continuity. A new generation of COMYAN.
Süddeutsche Zeitung has relied on COMYAN for more than 20 years. In September 2026, the publisher successfully migrated its COMYAN environment to Microsoft Azure and introduced the modernised user interface alongside its agency-text workflows.
The migration preserved the existing content and adapted five integrations to the new cloud environment, with the production switchover completed in approximately two hours.
Scale and complexity
Times of India Group
A large editorial media environment with tens of millions of assets and integrations supporting demanding publishing workflows.
Connected editorial workflows
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
An extensive media archive integrated with evolving editorial and production systems, supporting the reuse of content across publishing workflows.
Our established references also include Der Standard, Süddeutsche Zeitung, DuMont, Mathrubhumi and Kleine Zeitung.
Digital editions that preserve the publishing experience.
COMYAN Digital Editions turn print publications into interactive digital reading experiences, preserving familiar layouts while adding navigation, search and access to historical editions.
High-fidelity article conversion
Preserve paragraph styling, multi-column layouts and images in the digital reading experience.
Fast page navigation
Move smoothly through pages while retaining the familiar print layout.
Usage analytics and heat maps
Understand how readers engage with articles and pages in Digital Editions.
Searchable edition archives
Find articles across historical issues and supplements through full-text search.
Let's talk about your publishing landscape.
Whether you are modernising a media archive, exploring AI-assisted search or connecting existing editorial systems, we can show you how COMYAN could fit into your environment.
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