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Transparent Video: 5 Ways to Add Transparency to Videos

Topics Video, Video Transformation
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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…

The Next Dimension(s) In the Online Retail Experience

Topics AR, Video, VR
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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…

Web and Media Performance Optimization: Key Challenges and Solutions

Topics E-commerce, Performance Optimization
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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.  …

Media Customizations that will Delight Your Customers

Topics E-commerce, Product Customization
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Brands selling products that can be personalized, monogrammed, or that come in various shapes, sizes, and colors face a unique challenge: their visitors should be able to visualize their creation in the highest possible resolution, and do so quickly.  Failing to provide a confidence-building visual leads to dissatisfied shoppers who…

Content Velocity: Shrinking Time to Market while Meeting Consumer Expectations

Topics E-commerce, Performance Optimization
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 A recent industry report stated that e-commerce will account for 20% of global retail sales by the end of 2022, up from10% just five years ago. Clearly, the genie is out of the bottle. If a brand is going to stay relevant and competitive they’ve got…

8 Video Transformations Developers Can Make With One Line of Code

Topics Video, Video Transformation
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It’s 2022. Developers are blessed with a plethora of resources to build websites, apps, and services. You can’t be left out! In this article, I’ll show you how to make video transformations without spending time and brain power architecting video transformation services from scratch. In one line of code via…

The Case for JPEG XL

Topics Featured, JPEG XL, Performance Optimization
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Recently, the Chrome developers announced their decision to remove the behind-a-flag support for JPEG XL. The following reasons are cited for this decision: Experimental flags and code should not remain indefinitely There is not enough interest from the entire ecosystem to continue experimenting with JPEG XL…

Learn How to Work with Images and Videos at Scale with Cloudinary Dev Hints

Topics Image Transformation, Video
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Documentation, blog posts, and user guides—these are just a few of the critical assets needed to get developers onboarded and learn how to work within a new system, in this case Cloudinary. But not all learners are the same. Sometimes a visual approach is needed, that focuses specifically on the…

TechCrunch Disrupt: Bringing the Visual Economy Story to the Big Stage

Topics E-commerce, Image Transformation, Video API
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Among the luminaries that graced the stage at this year’s TechCrunch included actor and founder of HartVentures, Kevin Hart; the indomitable 23 Grand Slam title holder, founder, and Managing Partner at Serena Ventures, Serena Williams; and the recipient of the 2021 Silicon Valley Women of Influence award and CMO, Saranya…

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