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Allowing your users to upload their own images to your website can increase user engagement, retention and monetization. However, allowing your users to upload any image they want to, may lead to some of your users uploading inappropriate images to your application. These images may offend other users or even…

Here at Cloudinary, we provide a cloud-based tool that enables our users to compress images and video for their websites and apps. Our goal is to preserve the visual integrity of the content, but deliver the smallest file size to any device or browser to ultimately optimize website performance and…

Developing applications for mobile consumption comes with difficult challenges. Apps need to limit their RAM, CPU, and battery usage while performing smoothly. And if there are too many background tasks, the mobile device’s battery runs out fast. Networks on mobile devices are also often unstable in some areas with slow…

TL;DR Since Google shared their intent for the next billion internet users, some African developers thought this was pointing right at them and they needed to act fast. The mission to bring the next billion users from Africa to the internet kicked off a storm of enthusiasm. This community event…

While email marketing is still a dominant channel to reach your customers, blindly sending generic emails doesn’t work well. Personalizing emails is key to a successful marketing campaign. Merge tags are one of the best features in email marketing: they enable us to send highly customized emails to our subscribers…

There are a lot of cool and useful marketing technology and tools available today. As a part of the marketing team at Cloudinary, we must identify and recommend the solutions that will scale and optimize our ability to reach, and effectively engage with, our prospects. One of the most critical…

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Cloudinary offers an interesting feature: The ability to generate images from the PDF files and pages. With Cloudinary, you can create thumbnail images of your documents for previewing purposes. It’s useful when you don’t want to grant user access to the content, but need to give them a sneak peek…

Welcome to the latest edition of the Responsive Images Guide! In part 1, I laid out the big idea: a responsive image is a variable image – which adjusts itself to fit variable contexts. In part 2, we looked at the most common way that an image…