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Turning a Flat Image Into a Three-Dimensional Canvas With Cloudinary

Topics Image Transformation, Performance Optimization
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Note: This post was cowritten with Daniel Mendoza. Famed American poet Henry David Thoreau once said, “This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” And, like your imagination, the transformations you can apply to images with Cloudinary are practically endless. You can even render any flat image to appear…

Best Practices for the Mobile World

Topics Android, Asset Management, iOS, Mobile, Performance Optimization, Video, Video API
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TL;DR Quick reference to Optimizations for the Mobile Web Quick reference to Optimizations for iOS and Android Apps We live in a visual world, often while on the go, and consumers expect media-rich web content. Accordingly, the loading speed of images and videos is a big factor…

Introducing Cloudinary-Zapier Integration: Optimize, Manage, and Deliver Media Assets

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Video API
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What is Zapier? Zapier is an automation tool that connects web apps, such as Gmail, Slack, MailChimp, and others, over 1,300 in total. With Zapier, you can connect multiple apps to automate tasks without coding or relying on your development team to build the integration. You can also automate…

Introducing the Cloudinary Demo Android App, Part 1

Topics Android, Asset Management, File-upload, Performance Optimization, Responsive Images, Video, Video API
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Cloudinary has recently added the Cloudinary Demo- e-commerce App to the Google Play Store. The App demonstrates the best practices for optimal delivery of images on a storefront, including category pages, product pages, and a shopping cart. The Cloudinary Demo – eCommerce App was developed as an open source project…

Video Optimization, Part 2: Multi-Codec Adaptive Bitrate Streaming

Topics Asset Management, HTML5, Video, Video API, Video Codec
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Part 1 of this series discusses the optimal way of delivering progressive video streams by taking advantage of modern, efficient codecs. That approach is ideal for short-form (under 60 seconds) videos and for videos displayed at a low resolution, such as ads and previews. But what if you’re…

David H. Lipsey on the Push and Pull of Visual Storytelling

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management
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In my communications role here at Cloudinary, I get to speak to a lot of experts across a variety of subject matter areas, technology and not, about what it takes to connect to today’s consumer. The power of images and other forms of digital content is often at the…

Making Media Accessible: How to Automatically Generate Alt Text for Images

Topics Accessibility, AI, Asset Management
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Images and videos are critical for ensuring user engagement on the web. For instance, on a retail website, images of a product from different angles or a 360-degree video of the product can lead to higher conversion rates. For a news website, users are more likely to read articles with…

How to optimize and deliver media in your Commerce Cloud store with Cloudinary

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, E-commerce, Partnership, Video
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As you may have heard, Cloudinary, the end-to-end media management solution, now has a certified cartridge with Salesforce Commerce Cloud (formerly Demandware), one of the industry’s most agile and scalable eCommerce platforms. The Cloudinary cartridge enables you to simplify and automate the process of manipulating, optimizing, and delivering images…

Our New Integration with Salesforce Commerce Cloud

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Partnership
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We’re pleased to announce our official partnership and new integration with Salesforce Commerce Cloud, one of industry’s most scalable and trusted platforms for ecommerce websites, enabling many of the world’s biggest brands to provide personalized experiences for shoppers that span web, mobile, social and in-store. What’s more, because Commerce…

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