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Before Starting DAM RFPs, Think About Use Cases First, Not Features

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management
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In today’s digital age, businesses must deliver to all viewing devices visual media that tells their brand’s story. To do so, the digital content must be in one place as the single source of truth for use by the entire organization. Additionally, syndicating an ever-growing library of media assets for…

Winners of Build the World with Dolby.io Hackathon: Innovative Developers and Engaging Apps

Topics Hackathon, Image Transformation, Video API, Video Transformation
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In November 2021, Cloudinary teamed up with Dolby.io to participate in their Build the World With Dolby.io Hackathon aimed at sparking spectacular and innovative hybrid audio- and video-conference experiences. Invited were developers and creators from around the world to compete for a prize pool valued at over…

Rendering Video Accessible to a Diverse Audience

Topics Accessibility, Video, Video API
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“Holistic accessibility … provide[s] people with disabilities the best chance to achieve equality.” — Sheri Byrne-Haber As digital technology advances, video is gaining popularity across industries, replete with entertaining, engaging, and coherent content. All too often, however, not everyone can access it for various reasons. Built-in accessibility for video, which…

Enhance Audio With APIs Only

Topics Audio Transformation, Video API
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Now that telecommuting for work will likely continue to be the norm, people are communicating more and more by audio and video. In fact, many professional creators are now running projects from their home setup. Not all digital content is created equal, however. Audio quality, for one thing, is a…

Key Takeaways From Our 2021 State of Visual Media Report

Topics Image Formats, Image Transformation, Performance Optimization, Video, Video Transformation
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We recently released our 2021 State of Visual Media report, which offers a view into how visual media content is produced, managed, viewed, and consumed. For this third annual report, we analyzed a massive amount of visual-related data, looking at billions of image and video assets across 670 enterprise customers…

3 E-Commerce Trends to Get Right in the New Year

Topics e-commerce, Headless, Mobile, Performance Optimization, Video, Video API
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A brick-and-mortar store’s ability to connect with shoppers is a main draw of shopping in person. On the other hand, e-commerce requires an understanding that online shopping differs from physical retailing, calling for proactive steps that mimic in-person experience as much as possible through sight and sound. Since the in-store…

Change Is Hard, But Adopting a Modern DAM Might Be Easier Than You Think

Topics Asset Management, Digital Asset Management
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Like people, companies are creatures of habit that tend to continue doing things the way they’ve always been done, especially if the processes seem to be working just fine. Consequently, businesses are at times unaware that more effective and efficient ways exist. I observed this tendency at a recent roundtable…

From an XWP WordPress Engineer: What’s Next for Cloudinary’s WordPress Plugin

Topics Asset Management, Image Transformation, Lazy Loading, Responsive Images, Video Transformation, WordPress
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Media management is at the heart of what WordPress does, and with Cloudinary’s WordPress Plugin, we’re all set to alleviate numerous pain points for WordPress users by adapting the plugin’s features developed by Cloudinary, and adapted by XWP, on its platform into a working WordPress plugin. This article describes…

The Partnership Between XWP and Cloudinary

Topics Asset Management, Partnership, WordPress
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In technology, partnerships are frequently the key to success. Recognizing and leveraging each other’s strengths can lift up all parties involved—and even the industry as a whole. XWP’s collaboration with Cloudinary, the two companies’ complementary strengths, and the benefits accorded the CMS industry by the technology we built together are…

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