Add a Custom Asset

Assets are pieces of text, video, and photo content stored in Yext. They enable you to quickly access and apply frequently used content such as logos, slogans, templates for social posts, and other content.

Assets also allow you to manage content authoring by ensuring that your team is only using pre-approved or standardized content.

You can apply an asset by clicking the asset icon anywhere you see it while editing content in Yext:

This article details how to create an asset using a custom field type.

To create a different type of asset, see Add a Text Asset, Add a Photo Asset, or Add a Video Asset.
To edit an asset, see Edit an Asset.
To delete an asset, see Delete an Asset.
To use assets in Reviews, see Create Assets for Templated Review Response.

Custom assets enable you to quickly apply content that is properly formatted to fields using any custom field types you have created.

Before you can create a custom asset, you have to create a custom field type. To apply your custom asset, you will also need to create custom fields using your custom field type. See Create a Custom Field Type and Create a Custom Field for steps.

Navigate to Knowledge Graph > Assets.
Click the Add Asset dropdown and select your custom field type.
Depending on the subfields you have added to your custom field, you will see different options to configure. Enter your asset details:
- Name
- Language (if you are using multi-language entity profiles)
- Content: Depending on the subfields you have added to your custom field, you will see different options to configure.
- Usage: select the Entity Fields in Yext where you want to be able to apply your asset.
- Description
- Labels: (optional) asset labels can also be used to restrict which assets are available to a custom field. To do so, add a specific label to the asset, then add the same label to the custom field.
- For entities: choose which entities this asset can be applied to. You can narrow down entities by folder and/or entity label. (Note that entity labels are separate from asset labels.)
Click Save Asset or Save and Add Another.