Media-Optimization Strategies to Enhance Digital Experience
Did you know that humans process imagery 60,000 times faster than text? In fact, 90% of the information our brains process is visual, which makes it seem a no-brainer—pun intended—that brands are...
View ArticlePreparing Your Live Streams for Video on Demand
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...
View Article“Going Live” Gains Popularity in Commerce, Social, and Events
“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...
View ArticleCSS Image Overlay: Overlaying Text and Images for Visual Effect
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...
View ArticleCool Tricks for Resizing Images in JavaScript
Resizing images with JavaScript (JS) creates nifty effects, many of which you cannot do in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). However, even though you can automate a zoom effect with JS to enable users to...
View ArticleWhether Browsing Or Buying, Consumers Love Livestream Shopping
In a previous post, I discussed how “going live” is gaining popularity across industries and verticals. What began as a way for gamers to jam together has evolved into a medium for broader...
View ArticleAfter Taking Video Live, Make It Available On Demand
In early 2020, Cloudinary was planning its fourth annual ImageCon conference, a two-day event in the heart of San Francisco, where we’d congregate with curious digital-media minds to brainstorm best...
View ArticleOverlaying Glasses Or Masks on Avatars With Vue.js and Cloudinary
Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, breaks down tasks in ways that make all kinds of machine assists possible. With deep learning, you can identify images by machine, i.e., instead of...
View ArticleCloudinary Teams Up With Visionular to Support the New High Performance, Low...
Whether it’s for broadcast-quality live streaming, on-demand viewing, or interactive real-time communications, video is taking on growing prominence online. Through our recently announced Cloudinary...
View ArticleMedia + Jamstack = MediaJams, a Free Community Tool for Finding Sample Code...
For developers who constantly tackle programming problems and build solutions, finding answers through code in the wild can be a big time-saver. The Developer Relations Team at Cloudinary is proud to...
View ArticleImageCon 2021: Unleash Your Visual Experiences
Underscoring the growing relevance of online visual experiences, our fifth annual ImageCon conference on October 19-20 is going digital for the second year. We’re also proud to welcome Amazon Web...
View ArticleCloudinary Helps to Future-Proof Enterprise Technology by Joining The MACH...
As expectations of websites and apps continue to grow, there is more pressure on brands to deliver new and innovative ways to reimagine their digital experience. The challenge is many companies lack...
View ArticleMaking UGC Shoppable With Cloudinary
User-generated content (UGC) is a powerful marketing tool. Not only does video complement marketing efforts for e-commerce by enabling customers to explore products in greater detail, but UGC also adds...
View ArticleAuto-Completing the Upload Code of Media Files With GitHub Copilot
The past decade has seen massive improvements in software tools that facilitate coding. In fact, a campaign is currently underway to promote building software with no-code tools like Bubble, which...
View ArticleWhy Successful Businesses Engage With and Convert Audiences With Visual Media
Most business buyers prefer to research purchase options online, as do many shoppers. No wonder online retail sales in the U.S. rose by 32.4% in 2020—an impressive gain of $105 billion.For B2B and B2C...
View ArticleEnhanced Accessibility for Cloudinary’s Product Gallery Widget
Cloudinary’s Product Gallery widget, which launched in 2019, has enabled many brands to effectively and efficiently showcase their products in a sleek and captivating manner, saving countless hours of...
View ArticleA Blueprint for AWS-Secured Webhook Listeners for Cloudinary
tl;dr: An AWS-secured and optimized Cloudinary webhook listener for extending the Cloudinary serviceCode: Github A webhook is a communication medium for sending notifications from one platform to...
View ArticleBuilding Engaging and Lightweight E-Commerce Pages With Low-Code and No-Code...
Consumers expect modern websites to be mainly visual. But, the more compelling and complex the related media is, the more data is involved, compounding the site’s weight. In today’s content-craving...
View ArticleFor Developers: the HTML Element Explained
We all know the good ol', tireless <img> element, which has been a long-time go-to for inserting graphics into webpages. Time doesn’t stop, however, and neither do technological advancements. So,...
View ArticleAudio in Video Is Crucial. Here's How to Produce High-Quality Audio
Many content creators and consumers tend to regard video as visuals, but that’s only part of the experience. Immersive video content includes strong audio. Just like in a movie, the audio for video...
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