{"id":22001,"date":"2020-01-20T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/25_days_of_media_magic_takeaways"},"modified":"2022-09-23T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T16:48:22","slug":"25_days_of_media_magic_takeaways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/25_days_of_media_magic_takeaways","title":{"rendered":"25 Days of Media Magic: Takeaways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year, folks!<\/p>\n

As a relentless technology advocate and a developer who\u2019s worked on media transformation for numerous projects over the years, I decided in late 2019 to go on a 25-day journey of sharing my learnings on Twitter. The aim was to show my audience the options available for them to do magic with any type of media file and spark ideas that would take maximum advantage of those techniques in their future projects.<\/p>\n

I started on December 1 and ended on December 25, sharing a significant amount of my knowledge on using Cloudinary for full-stack media upload, and transformation. During that journey, I learned a few things, too, and will share them with you right here.<\/p>\n

Three Major Takeaways<\/h2>\n
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    I discovered that many folks use Cloudinary merely as storage for their media assets, which is a good thing. However, they never leverage the platform\u2019s powerful optimization option while delivering those assets to their users.<\/p>\n

    Day 1: Never deliver images without any form of optimization to the user. With @cloudinary<\/a>, 1) applying "f_auto" automatically deliver images in the optimal format. 2) "q_auto" to your images automatically deliver images in the optimal file size and visual quality.

    Example:…<\/p>— Prosper #25DaysOfMediaMagic (@unicodeveloper)     December 1, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>