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Every brand wants to use video for visual storytelling across their digital properties. The reason is simple. Video drives up to 80% higher engagement and 88% higher conversion for online sales compared to static images.  With results like these, why not use…

We’re thrilled to share our two official community sites with the world: our Cloudinary Community forum and our Discord server. There’s a lot of discussion (and no consensus) about whether forums or chat servers are the right solution for a community’s needs. Some people have strong preferences for…

Building web and mobile apps requires teams to constantly analyze the requests being made and what can be done to avoid slow-loading pages which hurt engagement and make your visitors unhappy. Fortunately, there are tools like Next.js that allow those teams to build web apps with performance in mind.  Which…

Packed with unique insights, pro tips, and customer stories, our fourth annual State of Visual Media report is here to help you and your brand thrive in today’s visual economy. For this year’s report, our data science team analyzed more than 219 billion transactions per month generated by 375 of…

Sharing tutorials, concepts, events, etc., with video blogs is entertaining and engaging. Additionally, blog posts that contain videos receive more inbound links and views than those that don’t. In this post, we will learn how to build a video blog in Svelte using Cloudinary as our video hosting service. Sandbox…

Many apps you’ll encounter have images that you drag and drop in different locations for a number of reasons. It may help users reorganize their photo libraries or it can simplify a process. That’s why we’re going to build a front-end app to handle this type of drag and drop…

What is a Transparent Video? A transparent video is a video object with background transparency. The object has colored pixels, while the rest of the video pixels are either colorless or transparent. It is different from traditional video elements that display all video components in colored pixels.  Transparent video is…

Delivering engaging online shopping experiences is vital to success in today’s e-commerce environment; an environment where consumers expect brands to replicate the in-store experience online. To meet consumer expectations, brands need to deliver dynamic, immersive, and appealing experiences that make customers feel confident about their shopping decisions. Those brands that…

Attention is a scarce and incredibly valuable commodity. In nearly every online interaction you get one crack at getting and keeping a person’s attention. There are plenty of design and copy tricks you can rely on to get, and keep, a person’s attention. And, once you’ve got them, there’s optimizations.  …