As critical as it is to engage with shoppers in order to succeed in e-commerce, old-style, boring emails are far from being effective. In fact, they tend to be annoying because no one likes to read formulaic, generic messages that are sent en masse. For better results, rethink your email marketing campaigns and try out creative strategies.
The bane of our existence is the lack of efficient ways for tackling the plethora of recurring tasks in our lives. One of those tasks is surfing the internet. We consume a lot of web content daily, of which a large percentage are images and videos. We’re constantly quickly scrolling through 30-second videos or checking out pictures of cute items we’d like to buy in our free time.
Roommate matching can be a pain—especially during the COVID pandemic when people don't want to meet in person. Matching apps like Flatmates, Roomster, and roommates.com are helpful, and if you're in the roommate-matching space, you know that great video is essential for those seeking roommates. Fortunately, Cloudinary can help.
Imagery and video are proven ways to promote engagement and conversion on e-commerce sites. One study found that 75% of online shoppers say that product pictures are “very influential” for their purchase decisions, with a respondent commenting, “If I can’t see it, I can’t make a decision about it.”
Using a company’s software in-house was made famous by Microsoft’s adoption of the term “eating our own dog food” to refer to the request to employees to use the alpha and beta versions of their products. This story, “Drinking Our Own Champagne” refers to our serving videos created by our Customer Training team with the Cloudinary Video Player to implement a business initiative and enhance site performance.
While managing marketing campaigns, you’ve most likely come across situations whereby a campaign must go live ASAP. Or, last-minute changes in the content, design, or brand guidelines emerge just before launch. In those circumstances, getting your creative team to generate new images or modify existing ones on a tear can lead to a lot of stress and missed deadlines. To help you navigate those rough waters, we are releasing an integration of Cloudinary with the Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) content builder.
Modern webpages are more than just plain text. With HTML5, it’s no longer a challenge to play media on webpages. You can—and should—provide your audience with an engaging, high-quality multimedia experience on your site.
Part 1 of MythBusters busted the myth of unstable tests. Part 2 here smashes another myth: “UI tests are slow.” Far be it from me to dispute that UI tests are slower than unit or integration tests, but let me show you the best practices that speed up UI tests.
A true digital-native business, everything that London-headquartered MADE.COM does is shaped by its belief that great design should be available to everyone—a brand promise it fulfills by offering high-quality, exclusive home furnishings, and beautiful furniture. As the UK’s first online only furniture retailer, MADE is constantly improving the virtual customer journey through engaging visual experiences. As Edmund Kleiser, head of technology operations, states, “Strong and compelling imagery is everything to us to help us engage our audience.” Shoppers love to see ultra-high quality images of MADE’s 6,000 sofas, storage solutions, and floor lamps in exquisite, sharp detail. Huge care goes into defining the quality and aesthetic of product pictures, including the choice to deliberately limit the color palette.
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Cloudinary conducted a workshop at React Summit 2021 to highlight the effect of media performance on websites by correlating it with Google’s Core Web Vitals and other performance measurements. Also presented were typical optimization techniques along with code samples. Here are the recording and the slides.