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The Power and Promise of Headless DAMs

Topics API, Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Headless
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Headless is not a buzzword anymore. In fact, the concept of headless architecture is gaining momentum due to the flexibility it offers for composing new experiences and for tackling the undue complexity of an ever-evolving technology stack. That’s because while the evolution of the martech landscape has enabled disruptive, digital…

Building Display Ads With Transparent Video

Topics Asset Management, Video API, Video Transcoding, Video Transformation
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Billions of views on the Internet every day drive one of the biggest industries on the planet: advertising. The sheer size of that market and the competitive nature of vying for consumer attention results in a constant need for innovation. Readers are jaded, and display ads are blind spots. To…

Confronting the Urgent Problem of Web Performance

Topics Asset Management, Image Transformation, Multi-CDN, Performance Optimization, Video, Video API, Video Transcoding
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As a technology company, Cloudinary owes its success to its ability to build solutions that address the most critical challenges you, our customers, face. The companies we serve run the gamut of digital businesses—retailers and direct-to-consumer brands, media and entertainment, travel and hospitality—which, coincidentally, all care about the same things.

Brands Open Up: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Trends in Visual Media From Cocktails With Cloudinary

Topics e-commerce
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It is not every evening that you get executives from leading brands, e-businesses, and media organizations, some of them Fortune 500 companies, in one “room.” That was what made Cocktails With Cloudinary—a virtual mixology experience hosted by Rob Floyd, global liquid chef and star of the hit TV show Bar…

Navigating Real-Estate Videos With Auto Tagged Markers

Topics Asset Management, Tagging, Video, Video API
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A picture is worth a thousand words, and that also holds true for video, one minute of which, according to Dr. James McQuivey of Forrester Research, is worth 1.8 million words. That’s why online stores rely on rich media to promote products and sales. Images and videos impart a…

Dive Into Digital Media

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I think we can all agree images and videos, ubiquitous on today’s websites and mobile apps, are a core component of our digital life. They are no longer just important elements of the visual web story; they are that story. Equally crucial are interactive experiences, such as social discovery, 3D…

Integrating Video in Custom Shopify Apps

Topics e-commerce, Shopify, Video API, Video Player
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Note: Cloudinary now offers an upgraded Shopify integration through our professional services team. Contact our sales team to learn more about this new upgraded offering and how it can benefit your Shopify integration needs. Additionally, starting December 15, 2023, the current version of the Cloudinary app for Shopify…

Pinpointing Errors in Customer Media Assets at Cloudinary

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I still remember well my first week as a DevOps at Cloudinary. The year was 2017. Everything was new to me—people, laptop, processes—all of which to become familiar with in short order. A mantra often repeated to me in those days was that, Cloudinary being a SaaS, continuous service uptime…

Transformation Management Made Easy

Topics Asset Management, Image Transformation
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Transforming images with Cloudinary is simple, right? You find the ones you want and add them to your URL, building them up and trying them out until they’re perfect. You can then save the transformations that you created as named transformations for reuse. That final step sounds straightforward, but up…

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