What’s not to like about Airtable? It has robust automation, a great interface, and has become a go-to tool for creative teams and agencies looking to organize and manage their workflows. Part database, part spreadsheet, Airtable allows teams to customize their workflows, manage projects, and store assets in one place.
But Airtable does have a few limitations that could hobble your creative and marketing team, which is why integrating it with the right plugins and extensions is so important. You can unlock even greater potential from a solid platform.
Below, we’ll take a look at seven must-have Airtable integrations and extensions tailored to the needs of creative teams. From simplifying task management to smoothing out communication, these tools will help you turn Airtable into an unstoppable hub for managing your creative workflows.
What we'll cover
1. Ziflow
Ziflow is a comprehensive proofing platform designed to streamline creative asset collaboration, review, and approval. Its annotation, markup, and commenting tools allow teams to collect and share actionable feedback, keeping creative projects on track and brand compliant.
Its integration with Airtable allows creative and marketing teams to combine Airtable’s project management capabilities with Ziflow’s robust proofing features, creating a seamless workflow for managing creative projects from start to finish.
Whether you’re tracking project statuses, routing approvals, or updating assets, Ziflow’s integration with Airtable ensures that all your feedback and project updates are centralized and accessible in real-time.
See how AWS uses Ziflow with Airtable.
Features and benefits of Ziflow + Airtable
- Route feedback and approvals directly to Airtable, consolidating updates and eliminating communication silos.
- Automatically sync proofing statuses between Ziflow and Airtable, ensuring your team always has the most up-to-date project information.
- Manage project milestones, creative assets, and feedback in a single Airtable dashboard.
- Track changes and approvals with Ziflow’s version history, mirrored in Airtable.
- Use custom rules to trigger actions in Airtable based on proofing decisions in Ziflow, saving time on manual updates.
- Provide stakeholders with a clear view of project progress, approvals, and deadlines without leaving Airtable.
- Sync approved assets directly into Airtable, turning it into a lightweight digital asset management system.
2. Asana
Asana is a popular project management tool that helps teams organize tasks and track their progress. When integrated with Airtable, Asana allows creative teams to bridge task management and project tracking effortlessly. This integration simplifies workflows, ensures alignment, and keeps all team members synced.
Features and benefits
- Automatically sync tasks between Airtable and Asana for easy project tracking.
- Combine Airtable’s database capabilities with Asana’s task management to optimize your processes.
- Keep both tools updated instantly whenever changes are made.
3. Zapier
Zapier is an online automation platform that connects over 7,000 apps, enabling its millions of worldwide users to create automated workflows called "Zaps" without coding (hello money and time savings). It helps streamline repetitive tasks, such as saving Gmail attachments to Dropbox or posting blog updates to social media.
Zapier connects Airtable with thousands of apps, automating repetitive tasks and enabling teams to create custom workflows without coding. This integration is perfect for creative teams that need to connect multiple tools in their stack and reduce manual work.
Features and benefits
- Automate actions across Airtable and other tools with just a few clicks.
- Eliminate repetitive tasks, such as copying data between platforms.
- Connect Airtable with a wide range of creative tools, including design apps, communication platforms, and analytics software.
4. Slack
Slack is a powerful collaboration tool that facilitates one-to-one and team communication. Its channel-based structure helps organize conversations by project or team, ensuring that collaboration is focused and efficient. Whether your users need quick messaging, video calls, or file sharing, Slack keeps everyone connected and aligned.
Slack’s integration with Airtable allows teams to stay updated and aligned without switching between platforms. Creative teams can receive notifications and share updates directly within Slack channels, making collaboration more efficient.
Features and benefits
- Send Airtable updates to Slack channels automatically, keeping everyone informed.
- Discuss Airtable projects and tasks directly within Slack.
- Reduce the need to switch between tools, enhancing team productivity.
5. Miro
Miro is a dynamic digital whiteboard app that helps teams with collaborative ideation and brainstorming. If you can imagine it, you can build it — or start from pre-built templates like process mapping, mind mapping, product planning, customer journey mapping, whiteboarding, diagramming, and more.
By integrating Miro with Airtable, creative teams can link their visual concepts to project tasks, ensuring a clear connection between ideas and execution.
Features and benefits
- Connect Miro boards to Airtable records for a holistic view of project progress.
- Collaborate on Miro while keeping project details organized in Airtable.
- Link visual assets with project plans to maintain alignment across teams.
6. Jira
Jira is a project management tool widely used by development teams, and its integration with Airtable bridges the gap between creative and technical workflows. This integration enables creative teams to track development-related tasks alongside their projects in Airtable.
Features and benefits
- Sync Jira issues with Airtable records for unified project visibility.
- Align creative and development teams by consolidating updates in one place.
- Tailor the integration to match your team’s specific needs.
7. Trello
Trello, one of the earliest cloud-based Kanban boards, offers a simple way to visualize and manage tasks. Its drag-and-drop card system makes it easy to track progress through different stages, helping marketing teams stay organized.
Trello’s flexibility is most suited for agencies managing smaller, fast-moving projects, while still offering integrations and automations to enhance productivity.
Integrating Trello with Airtable allows teams to sync boards and tasks, providing a more comprehensive view of project progress and priorities.
Features and benefits
- Link Trello boards with Airtable tables for enhanced project tracking.
- Combine Trello’s visual task management with Airtable’s robust data handling.
- Automatically sync changes between the two platforms.
Streamline version management on design assets with Ziflow
Airtable integrations are essential for creative and marketing teams, but pairing Airtable with Ziflow elevates your workflow in ways you may not have thought possible. With Ziflow’s proofing capabilities effortlessly integrated into Airtable, you can centralize feedback, track approvals, and optimize your creative process like never before.
Why not give it a try?
