Case Study: Nickelodeon Animation achieves faster asset discovery and frees animators' time with Extensis Portfolio

Nickelodeon Animation Uses DAM to Free Up Animators’ Time for More SpongeBob

Nickelodeon Animation, the small but prolific studio behind hits like SpongeBob SquarePants, produces about two hours of new animation each week, which rapidly multiplied its media assets. Until recently, the team relied on manual archiving—binders, boxes, and offsite storage—with inconsistent descriptions across departments, making searches slow, costly, and time-consuming and limiting cross-team visibility.

They implemented Extensis Portfolio to centralize assets with a visual, cross‑platform interface, searchable thumbnails, and rich metadata. By digitizing and organizing files by show, Portfolio accelerated file retrieval, increased asset sharing across teams, and enabled real-time archiving—freeing animators to spend less time locating assets and more time creating.

Nickelodeon

Eric Swanborg

Manager of Digital Production