Simplifying the delivery of video content - how to choose the correct video format, ensure your design is responsive, adjust various video properties, create thumbnails and further transformations to enhance your visitors’ viewing experiences. Read more about it in our blog post....

How to best upload, transform, manage and store videos on your website or application, ensuring delivery of an optimal experience to all of your users.
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Part 3 of our blog post with Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four is now out - concluding this series... In it we discuss the future of responsive images, Client Hints and automation - interesting stuff! We had a wonderful time interviewing Jason and learned so much!

Cloudinary interviews Jason Grigsby about where responsive images are going next. Client Hints and server-side responsive image automation, here we come!
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Smashing Magazine write about automating art direction with our Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator tool, version 2.0! Enabling you to pair layout breakpoints with aspect ratios, and generate art-directed picture markup, with smart-cropped image resources to match. Check it out!

Four years ago, Jason Grigsby asked a surprisingly difficult question: How do you pick responsive image breakpoints? A year later, he had an answer: Ideally, we’d set responsive image performance budgets to achieve "sensible jumps in file size." Cloudinary built a tool that implements this idea, and...
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HTML5 Video Player Best Practices Via David Walsh Blog and Cloudinary!

Let’s all be honest: when it comes to media and the early days of the internet, we definitely did it all wrong. We started with embedded video players like RealPlayer and Windows Media Player which required custom codecs and browser plugins, then moved on to Flash and Quicktime — all of which made...
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First day at eCommerce Expo & Awards! Come by booth E710 to say hi, learn how we can help you build personalized content at scale, run A/B tests and grab some cool gifts too...!

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Improving Website Performance Through Image Optimization

When developing or updating a website, some of your core goals should be delivering an optimal end user experience and improving website conversions, since these two facets are key to driving...
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Build an Instagram-style app with minimal effort thanks to Cloudinary.

Managing media files (processing, storage and manipulation) is one of the biggest challenges we encounter as practical developers. These challenges include: Media uploadsResource management...
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Part two of our blog post with Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four (and so much more!) is out! In it, we discuss the various responsive images solutions available today, the importance of responsive image breakpoints, the issues and different tools. Hold tight for part 3 next week....

Cloudinary interviews Jason Grigsby about current responsive images solutions, taking a deep dive into the problem of responsive image breakpoints.
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Annual offsite! Amazing people, fascinating ideas - very exciting....!

Everyone wants want their website to look amazing, with high resolution images and a sharp graphic design. This can impact page load times. Find out how to avoid this issue.

There’s no doubt that you want your website to look fabulous, with stunning images and a sharp graphic design. But, to paraphrase “The Little Prince,” wha
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How Developers Can Increase Customer Experience by Building Truly Responsive Design Websites with Dynamic Image Management via Inc. Magazine

How Developers Can Increase Customer Experience by Building Truly Responsive Design Websites with Dynamic Image Management
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We caught up with Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four (and so much more!) to discuss the evolution of Responsive Images, their impact on the industry, evolving trends and issues and how to solve them... We had so much to talk about, it ended up being a three-piece blog post, check out part one here!

Cloudinary interviews Jason Grigsby about how the industry came to understand and eventually solve the responsive images problem
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Are you guilty of making any one of these mistakes? #webdev #webperf

Images are a major part of any modern website. Images nowadays account to more than 60% of a website's total bandwidth. This is even more pronounced when dealing with cutting-edge web design. On an image rich social website employing a Pinterest-like l...
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Upload one high-res copy of any image and then automatically adapt the image, in real-time, to focus on the most important region of the image, select optimal quality and encoding settings and responsively deliver the image on any device in any resolution or pixel density. Article via Noupe Magazine

With Cloudinary you upload one high-res image to your web project. Then the service cares for delivering appropriate sizes, formats, weights automatically.
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As websites and applications become more image and video rich, developing them becomes more challenging. Fast loading, video supporting, responsive images don't come without a cost. Check out our latest blog post to read about some of the challenges, and solutions...

How to ensure that website performance is optimized, bandwidth usage is minimized and users have a top-notch experience when developing a website or application
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You can check our our August newsletter here: http://eepurl.com/cdt4iX. In it we discuss HTTP2 support, Client Hints, one pixel images and more...

Our latest blog post, written by the awesome @nhoizey describes how he created a Jekyll plugin which leverages Cloudinary’s image storage, optimization, resizing, and delivery infrastructures to automate responsive images in Jekyll-generated static sites. Check it out, it's great!

Leverage Cloudinary's infrastructure to automate responsive images in Jekyll-generated static sites using the great plugin Nicolas Hoizey created!
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Did you know that the JPEG image format behaves like a photocopier? Each time you make a copy of a copy, the quality deteriorates. Learn how to avoid this issue.

If you make a copy of a copy of a copy, the quality will deteriorate with each subsequent version in a phenomenon called “generation loss.” It’s easy to u
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Cloudinary Adds HTTP/2 Support!

Cloudinary, a provider of solutions for managing images and video in the cloud, is offering HTTP/2 support, enabling developers to further optimize the user experience.
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