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Delivering picture-perfect visual assets is critical for any digital business. But cropping every image for every digital experience scenario is impossible for brands to do manually, especially for those managing millions of visual assets. Cloudinary is always researching new, smarter ways for brands, developers, and their customers to deliver better…

If 2023 was the year generative AI went mainstream, 2024 is the year AI will get real. Experts predict the technology could add up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy. But it will only reach that potential if users can leverage the tool to improve productivity…

March is Women’s History Month, and today is International Women’s Day! The theme of this year’s event is: “Women who advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion,” so we’re placing the spotlight on Allison Metcalfe, Cloudinary’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Throughout her career, Allison has been committed to advancing diversity and…

To most web developers, the benefits of the burgeoning JPEG XL image format are clear. The JPEG XL Image Coding System (ISO/IEC 18181), as it reads on the dotted line, is an image compression format that can: Reduce file sizes significantly. Encode faster. Enact progressive decoding. Convert images from JPEG…

Developing an e-commerce site can require displaying hundreds of product images, each with a varying size and resolution. How can one team manage that many images and variations of images, and keep them constantly updated? With Cloudinary’s Digital Asset Management solutions, developers can manage their media library, image optimizations, and…

If your website has slow-loading images, visitors are more likely to click off, increasing bounce rates and negatively impacting search engine ranking. Read how you can optimize, transform, and deliver your images with Cloudinary to improve user engagement and site performance. Getting Started With Cloudinary To get started, we’ll need…

The WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is free, open-source, and makes it easy to build an e-commerce site. With the plugin, you can build an e-commerce site on top of your WordPress site and add functionalities such as a shopping cart or product data types. When you have an online store,…

Version 0.10 of libjxl, the reference implementation for JPEG XL, has just been released. The main improvement this version brings, is that the so-called “streaming encoding” API has now been fully implemented. This API allows encoding a large image in “chunks.” Instead of processing the entire image at once,…

A recent Gartner study reported that worldwide spending on IT is expected to hit $5 trillion, with IT services earning a third of the total spend. This marks the first time IT services topped spending over communications services. The rise in spending is due to companies looking to adopt…