Guide to Building the Ultimate E-commerce Website and User Experience
Think about the last time you bought something online—and about the last time you did that but what you purchased wasn’t something you were after when you opened your browser. What captured your...
View ArticleHandling Media at Scale Using Automation and AI
In today’s digital world, engaging online content is key for catching audience attention. At ImageCon 2020, Cloudinary’s annual conference, Yaron Reichert and me, Jackie Rosenzveig, hosted a session...
View ArticleBranded Video Makes Its Blockbuster Push
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is tapping even more into online shopping and entertainment, so are e-businesses. Many have adapted by accelerating their digital-transformation plans;...
View ArticleFrench Racquet Sports Retailer Babolat Aces Media Management with Cloudinary
Babolat, headquartered in Lyon, France, is the oldest international brand specializing in racquet sports. It’s tennis, badminton, and padel equipment are used by many of the world’s best players and...
View ArticleHow Cloudinary Brings E-commerce Shops to Life
During this months-long COVID-19 pandemic, which of us have not made purchases online? In particular, early on during the lockdown, when only essential businesses were open, the web was the primary...
View ArticleIn Chess As in Customer Engagement: Observe, Strategize, and Learn
In October, Netflix launched a wonderful miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel, The Queen’s Gambit, on the rise of a young prodigy to be the world's chess champion while tackling issues of...
View ArticleIs Your Business Ready for a Headless Architecture?
You’ve likely heard of the increasingly popular catchphrase headless architecture in technical or marketing discussions vis-a-vis building a martech stack for headless e-commerce. You might also...
View ArticleVELTRA Sees Faster Page Loads and Lower Costs with Cloudinary
VELTRA (a wordplay on TRAVEL) is a leading Japan-based travel marketplace with 4,000 international travel-agency partners, offering 27,000 local tours to over 150 destinations worldwide. In addition to...
View ArticleThe Road to Headless Architecture in E-Commerce
How many vendor solutions do you rely on for a superior user experience for your e-commerce site? How many tools do you use to manage the site? What services are used to manage media files, email...
View ArticleUser-Generated Content, Part 4: Security
Part 1 of this series highlights the basics of user-generated content (UGC) and its benefits for e-commerce. Part 2 describes how to leverage UGC images in e-commerce and efficiently upload, transform,...
View ArticleOur 2020 Holiday Gift Guide
With the holiday season upon us, it’s time to take stock of what brings us joy and for many of us giving gifts to loved ones is at the top of the list. We’re lucky that so many of our customers are...
View ArticleHow to Turn User-Generated Images and Videos Into Sales
Did you know that five billion users of the top five social apps post 41.6 million messages a minute? Or that three billion JPEG images are created every day?Not only does this tremendous volume of...
View ArticleFor GUESS, Cloudinary Eliminates the Guesswork in Delivering Optimal Shopping...
GUESS? Inc. designs, markets, distributes, and licenses a lifestyle collection of contemporary apparel, denim, handbags, watches, eyewear, footwear, and other related consumer products. These products...
View ArticleWhat to Focus on in Image Compression: Fidelity Or Appeal
Fidelity in images is about visually preserving the original; appeal is about hiding the compression artifacts. Depending on your priority, you would compress images with either of these approaches to...
View ArticleHow to Build an Enhanced Gravatar Service, Part 1
The advent of web development since 25 years ago has given birth to an abundance of online services that help developers build apps efficiently and smoothly. Gravatar is a shining example of such a...
View ArticleHow to Build an Enhanced Gravatar Service, Part 2
Part 1 of this post defines the capabilities of an enhanced Gravatar service, which I named Clavatar, and describes the following initial steps for building it: Set up the database. Establish the...
View ArticleCloudinary’s DAM helps move James Hardie’s ‘Material World’ experience online
While COVID has affected most businesses, it has been particularly hard on those that sell products for the physical ‘brick and mortar’ world. One company that literally fits that bill is our...
View ArticleIn Chess As in Customer Engagement: Observe, Strategize, and Learn
In October, Netflix launched a wonderful miniseries based on Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel, The Queen’s Gambit, on the rise of a young prodigy to be the world's chess champion while tackling issues of...
View ArticleCloudinary’s DAM Helps Move James Hardie’s ‘Material World’ Experience Online
While COVID has affected most businesses, it has been particularly hard on those that sell products for the physical ‘brick and mortar’ world. One company that literally fits that bill is our...
View ArticleAmplify Your Jamstack With Video
As defined by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amplify is a set of products and tools with which mobile and front-end web developers can build and deploy AWS-powered, secure, and scalable full-stack apps....
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