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CSS Image Overlay: Overlaying Text and Images for Visual Effect

Topics Asset Management, CSS, Performance Optimization
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CSS image overlays are a common technique for transposing text or images over each other. For example, you can combine images and text on a website when captioning an image, or place a live text element over a button. CSS image overlays can be a solid color, a gradient,…

“Going Live” Gains Popularity in Commerce, Social, and Events

Topics Asset Management, Video, Video API, Video Transcoding
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“Let’s go live.” For decades, that’s what newscasters say as they cut to real-time footage of a colleague reporting in the field. The live-video feed adds visual interest and perspective to a story beyond what can be communicated by someone sitting behind the news desk. In the same way, live-streaming…

Preparing Live Streams for Video on Demand

Topics Asset Management, Video, Video API
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When planning a live broadcast or stream, companies often overlook the redistribution phase, but live-stream videos are useful well beyond their initial streaming. Why? Because not everyone watches the first run. For a wider audience, it makes sense to repost live content on your website under an Events tab, on…

Eight Visual-Experience Trends From Roundtables With EMEA Brand Leaders

Topics e-commerce
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers had high expectations for digital experiences. They now expect nothing less than seamless, intuitive, and engaging experiences regardless of the channel or platform they are on. The Cloudinary product team is well aware that meeting those expectations has created new challenges for retailers and…

How Leading Brands Use Visuals to Build Trust and Drive Sales

Topics e-commerce
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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation for businesses and customers alike. Across verticals, brands were forced to evaluate their digital strategies and the ways in which they connect with audiences and customers. To explore brands’ visual media challenges, changes, and opportunities, Cloudinary recently cohosted a virtual roundtable with six leading…

After Optimizing for Web Performance, Stylight Shines With Cloudinary

Topics Asset Management, Case Studies, Performance Optimization
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For Stylight, a leading online search platform for fashion, beauty and design, uptime, performance, and customer experience greatly affect the bottom line. Available in 16 markets, the platform is visited every year by 120 million users who can search through 1,500 shops to find the best deals. Once they find…

Introducing Cloudinary Labs: Innovating and Advancing the Media Landscape

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Since its founding in 2012, Cloudinary has blazed a trail for transforming, optimizing, managing, and delivering visual media as a paramount component in the digital world. And, while we are constantly innovating our product offerings and pushing the boundaries for what’s possible today, we’re also just as excited about what…

An Open-Source Interface for Editing Videos With Cloudinary

Topics Asset Management, Video, Video API, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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Cloudinary offers powerful APIs for uploading, managing, transforming, and delivering images and videos, enabling developers to treat media as code and to capitalize on media’s full potential. However, performing simple editing tasks with APIs and SDKs might be too overwhelming for nondevelopers, who might prefer UI-based capabilities instead. Examples of…

Unboxing Images to Discover Their Content

Topics Image Analysis, User Generated Content
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Over recent years, ‘unboxing’ videos have become a popular internet phenomenon. Mostly, these involve people discovering what’s inside physical packages, with great anticipation and excitement. They can be strangely addictive! Cloudinary’s AI Content Analysis add-on effectively does the same thing, automatically, for images. Using highly-trained AI models, it can…

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