We’re thrilled to announce that Cloudinary and Akamai are teaming up to bring fast, high-quality video to an even bigger audience. Akamai, a leader in cybersecurity and cloud computing, has tapped Cloudinary to power its next-generation Video Manager solution. This new strategic partnership will bring Cloudinary’s AI-powered visual infrastructure to Akamai customers who rely on video to inform, entertain, and convert customers. Full press release here.
As brands continue to invest more in video — from long-form explainer content to short user-generated clips — they’re increasingly faced with challenges in every phase of production, from uploading and organizing content to editing, optimizing, and delivering it. Cloudinary’s AI-enabled visual solution will offer a suite of tools to Akamai Video Manager users that help solve these problems, like:
- A customizable video player. Embed Cloudinary’s Video Player into any web application and customize playback to meet brand guidelines, goals, and audience preferences.
- A centralized source of visual media truth. Upload and organize content with AI-tagging, and collaborate on files that dynamically update at each stage of production.
- AI-enabled editing tools. Instantly generate previews, add overlays, and create video variants for multiple channels and devices.
- Intuitive API commands. Programmatically scale video upload and transformation with a wide array of text commands.
- Built-in accessibility. Offer video to users of all abilities with support for keyboard navigation, adjustable playback, alternate audio tracks, and AI that automatically tags, captions, translates, and transcribes content.
- Real-time optimization. Automatically deliver the best format for each user based on their location, browser, bandwidth, and device.
Equipped with these tools and technologies, the new Video Manager powered by Cloudinary will amplify high-performing video at scale to Akamai’s 150,000+ customers. Gary Ballabio, Vice President of Strategic Technology and Partnerships at Cloudinary, is excited to “bring Cloudnary’s game-changing video innovations to Akamai customers to ensure they can more easily reap the tremendous engagement and conversion rewards of video.”
In addition to powering Akamai’s Video Manager solution, Cloudinary has joined the company’s Qualified Compute Partner Program as an Independent Software Vendor (ISV). The program, created to provide Akamai customers with technology to boost performance, speed, and innovation, involves a rigorous qualification process to ensure partners are ready to be deployed and scaled across the company’s global cloud.
Available individually or as part of a larger ecosystem, Akamai technology partners like Cloudinary aim to “help global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.”
