Nonetheless, even if your company has not defined a strategy for a headless architecture—and regardless of whether you plan to use it or not—it pays to familiarize yourself with this highly valuable but somewhat complex approach.
Watching The Queen’s Gambit took me back in time to a memorable experience 21 years ago, my senior year in high school. To fulfill part of my final-exam requirement for Computer Science, I wrote a chess program in Pascal—a truly enjoyable and stimulating adventure. The algorithm was based on a calculation of the scores of potential moves, with a tree of nodes holding all the options for the current position and the potential responses for each move from the opponent. The total score for each pair of moves determines what the computer does. Due to memory limitation, the tree holds only two levels of moves: one for the current position and the other for the opponent’s potential moves.
During this months-long COVID-19 pandemic, which of us have not made purchases online? In particular, early on during the lockdown, when only essential businesses were open, the web was the primary shopping outlet. Accordingly, we as consumers have come to learn how varied retailers and brands are in e-commerce savvy.
After focusing on the business-to-business market for more than 100 years, Babolat embarked on a move to a direct-to-consumer model that integrated e-commerce functionalities. As it began planning a website redesign to support online sales, the team realized that it needed a robust digital asset management (DAM) solution as the foundation of its digital transformation.
Currently, Cloudinary boasts a customer base of 7,000, with 800,000 users managing visual media on our AI platform. A remarkable trend indicator is that, between April and June, the overall video platform’s bandwidth grew by more than 140 percent. Many brands, such as Bleacher Report, Mediavine, Nintendo, Fiverr, Guess, Hinge, Finalsite, Outbrain, Salsify, and Taboola, are interacting with their audiences in a more in-depth and authentic manner through video. Of significant help is AI, which greatly simplifies cross-channel, resource-intensive workflows and collaboration in real time.
In today’s digital world, engaging online content is key for catching audience attention. At ImageCon 2020, Cloudinary’s annual conference, Yaron Reichert and me, Jackie Rosenzveig, hosted a session titled ’Handling Media at Scale Using Automation and AI’, which delved into the following:
Think about the last time you bought something online—and about the last time you did that but what you purchased wasn’t something you were after when you opened your browser. What captured your attention in the search results, the assortment page, or the product page that convinced you to make the purchase?
However, along with the benefits of user-generated content (UGC), comes myriad technical challenges. Content must be moderated to avoid compromising your brand. You need to provide a user-friendly process to efficiently manage content uploads. You need to transform images and videos to ensure brand consistency and web performance. You also need to ensure they look presentable across all devices and browser environments. To help brands address these issues and more, we recently ran a three-part blog series on UGC.
Since its founding, Cloudinary's mission has been to help companies unleash the full potential of their media to create the most engaging visual experiences. In keeping with that quest, we support new codecs for images and videos as soon as possible.
The health and economic crisis caused by the pandemic continues to transform the e-business landscape. Jointly with Internet Retailing, Gary Ballabio, Cloudinary’s Head of Technology Partnerships, recently moderated the webinar Navigating the New Normal of Digital Commerce. Panelists from Wunderman Thompson Commerce and Incisiv spoke to the emerging and evolving trends along with a focus on three themes: