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On social media, videos posted by users constitute a significant amount of the content appeal on those platforms. From upload to manipulation to delivery, a smooth, efficient, and effective pipeline for the posting process is mandatory to ensure consistent user sessions and their steadily increasing volume. However, building such an infrastructure is a complex, labor-intensive, and problem-prone undertaking.

If you were reading your social media or news feeds on or around June 11 this year, no doubt you came across your fair share of posts about Queen Elizabeth and her outfit-color faux pas. For her 90th birthday, she chose a solid neon green suit, and it didn't take long for Photoshop fanatics to suggest alternative designs for the Queen's green-screen threads.

As a robust, effective solution for managing digital media, Cloudinary offers a RESTful API for provisioning and maintenance. That API enables numerous operations, from basic ones like image uploads to advanced ones, such as creation of named transformations and AI-based search.

Delivering videos according to the aspect ratios defined by social media for multiple devices and platforms is a growing challenge. The continuously rising volume of vertical videos and the corresponding increase in video traffic on mobile devices (now up to 57% of online videos watched) have only exacerbated the situation, with no letup in sight.

Cloudinary offers a wide array of image manipulations and effects to apply to images as part of our image-processing pipeline, helping to ensure that your images fit the graphic design of your website or mobile application. Cloudinary is an open platform, and you can use our APIs, Widgets and UI to build the media management flow that matches your needs.

Tired of depending on other teams or software to create assets in multiple sizes for your responsive web site?

Does importing asset files into TeamSite slow down your web content publishing?

Klish Group is pleased to introduce the OpenText ^TM TeamSite – Cloudinary connector. Customers of the OpenText ^TM TeamSite web content management platform can now browse and select images in the same way they always have. Authors can just browse and select the image they want to use and Cloudinary will automatically deliver it in the optimal format and quality to the customer requesting it.

Unsatisfied with the way ad networks were run, Mediavine saw an opportunity to break free from the burdens and constraints of legacy ad networks by creating its own ad management service. As the exclusive ad manager for more than 3,900 digital publishers, Mediavine relies on video for monetizing content. Having used Cloudinary for image management, Mediavine adopted Cloudinary’s video management solution to streamline developer workflow, optimize video performance and reduce bandwidth usage.

The explosion of rich media and the importance of that media to customer engagement is undeniable. Businesses that take advantage of this trend and try to solve some of the typical asset management pain points often end up using multiple point solutions. While these solutions might solve some problems in the short term, they ultimately lead to content and functional silos, inefficient workflows, and scale limitations.

If you are in a marketing or creative team at a large organization, you understand how complicated cross-team collaboration can be. Managing the entire workflow from creation until a developer delivers a new asset in your website or app (in its many variations for all devices, screen sizes, browsers, resolutions...) can be mind boggling.

Part 1 of this series on developer relations elaborates on why, for your products or technologies to gain traction and succeed, you must win over the endorsement and support from the techies—software engineers, developers, and designers—at existing or prospective customers. Subsequently, everyone benefits and the world is a happy place. Before doing that, it helps to understand the ins and outs of the so-called developer ecosystem, that is, the mantra for developers, their learning paradigm, and their opportunities and challenges.