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Shoptalk Opens Registration for Inaugural Fall Event

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Shoptalk, the leading global event for retail innovation, today announces the registration, launch and preliminary agenda of Shoptalk Fall.

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  • Shoptalk, the leading global event for retail innovation, today announces the registration, launch and preliminary agenda of Shoptalk Fall.
  • “Shoptalk Spring has served as the annual touchpoint for the retail industry to come together to innovate, collaborate and redefine the retail ecosystem, but the call for another opportunity to connect has grown louder and louder” said Sophie Wawro, Global President, Shoptalk.
  • Shoptalk Fall participants will also have the opportunity to take part in Meetup—the world’s largest meetings program for the retail industry that will be facilitating more than 20,000 double-opt-in meetings during the event.
  • Registration for Shoptalk Fall 2024 is now open.

Cloudinary Makes Industry’s Smartest Smart Crop Even Smarter, Sets New Standard for AI-Powered Image Optimization

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

More than 10,000 brands and 1.5 million developers rely on Cloudinary to ensure they deliver fully optimized and performant images and videos.

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  • More than 10,000 brands and 1.5 million developers rely on Cloudinary to ensure they deliver fully optimized and performant images and videos.
  • With Image Enhance (e_enhance), brands can trust that every image on web- and mobile-responsive sites looks and performs optimally.
  • Create picture-perfect image thumbnails and previews through Enhanced Downscaling, which preserves more details when reducing image dimensions.
  • “The intelligent image optimizations announced today further reinforce Cloudinary as the most complete platform for automating the complex and time-consuming optimizations required to engage modern consumers.”

With Enhanced Support for Long-Form Video, Cloudinary Offers the Industry's Most Comprehensive Video API

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Tuesday, December 12, 2023

With the new enhancements, including expanded support for advanced compression codecs enabling adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR), Cloudinary is the only video API offering robust programmatic and UI-based automations for both short- and long-form videos.

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  • With the new enhancements, including expanded support for advanced compression codecs enabling adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR), Cloudinary is the only video API offering robust programmatic and UI-based automations for both short- and long-form videos.
  • Through its flexible API-based solution and AI-powered automation, Cloudinary eliminates these complex manual workflows, enabling developers to manage, customize, optimize, and deliver video to any channel or device within minutes.
  • Doximity, a leading digital platform for U.S. medical professionals, relies on Cloudinary to serve news-based video content to its app users.
  • Cloudinary has been instrumental in helping us speed up all aspects of our video management, optimization, and delivery workflows."

Cloudinary Report: Brands with Optimized Online Visual Content See Boost in Customer Engagement, Resource Savings and Sustainability Gains

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Monday, December 11, 2023

The report also reveals how properly optimized visual content is helping brands greatly reduce their digital carbon footprints.

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  • The report also reveals how properly optimized visual content is helping brands greatly reduce their digital carbon footprints.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231211533917/en/
    An in-depth look into how the world's most engaging brands are harnessing the power of images and video.
  • This year’s report reveals that brands were exceptionally fast to adopt new AI capabilities.
  • “This year’s report offers an in-depth look into the ways in which brands are managing and delivering image and video content to meet these challenges.

Cloudinary’s New Generative AI Features Help Brands Maximize Impact of Images

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Thursday, December 7, 2023

Cloudinary’s new Generative AI Upscale for Faces capability offers a clear example of generative AI’s impact.

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  • Cloudinary’s new Generative AI Upscale for Faces capability offers a clear example of generative AI’s impact.
  • Cloudinary is also making more generative AI features available to marketers and creatives with the next update to the Studio feature of its enterprise digital asset management (DAM) platform, Cloudinary Assets .
  • Cloudinary continues to enhance its existing set of generative AI tools, including Generative Fill, Replace, Restore, Remove, and Recolor.
  • “We have been incorporating AI into our solutions since our inception and we are now enhancing our solutions further with generative AI and LLM to further help customers unleash the potential of their images and reduce repetitive and manual creative tasks.”
    Explore Cloudinary’s full range of generative AI capabilities in the hands-on demo environment of the Generative AI Playground , or visit Cloudinary’s website to learn more about Cloudinary AI and the opportunity presented by generative AI specifically.

Cloudinary Achieves the new AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency

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Thursday, November 30, 2023

AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency Partners provide these customers – including advertising agencies, marketers, publishers, advertising and marketing technology providers, and analytics service providers – with AWS-validated solutions and services, helping to accelerate their transformation.

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  • AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency Partners provide these customers – including advertising agencies, marketers, publishers, advertising and marketing technology providers, and analytics service providers – with AWS-validated solutions and services, helping to accelerate their transformation.
  • Achieving the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency differentiates Cloudinary in the AWS Partner Network (APN) with demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in running cloud solutions on AWS for the advertising and marketing industry.
  • To achieve the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency, AWS Partners must undergo a rigorous technical validation by AWS solution architects and have verified customer references.
  • “Cloudinary is proud to achieve the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency,” said Gary Ballabio, VP of technology partnerships at Cloudinary.

Cloudinary Uses AI to Further Improve Image Quality Online, Announces JPEG XL Support for Apple Ecosystem

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Cloudinary , the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today launched a new AI-enhanced image quality feature and expanded JPEG XL support.

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  • Cloudinary , the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today launched a new AI-enhanced image quality feature and expanded JPEG XL support.
  • The evolution of q_auto has been fueled by Cloudinary’s extensive research into the impact of compression on perceived image quality.
  • “The enhancements we're introducing today exemplify this commitment: an AI-driven quality selection that further boosts image quality consistency and performance, along with the seamless integration of JPEG XL for Apple users.
  • Find out more about the Cloudinary Image Dataset here and read the related blog on compression and JPEG XL here .

International Retailer Mayoral Upgrades its Online Shopping Experience with Cloudinary and CoreMedia

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Cloudinary , the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today announced that international children’s clothing retailer Mayoral has deployed its AI-powered platform and the CMS from its partner CoreMedia to help transform its website and e-commerce shopping experience.

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  • Cloudinary , the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today announced that international children’s clothing retailer Mayoral has deployed its AI-powered platform and the CMS from its partner CoreMedia to help transform its website and e-commerce shopping experience.
  • With Cloudinary’s advanced image and video optimization capabilities and CoreMedia’s content experience engine, Mayoral is able to deliver flawless, visually-rich customer experiences with ease and greater efficiency.
  • Mayoral’s new automated process is powered by Cloudinary Programmable Media and Cloudinary Assets , the company’s enterprise-grade digital asset management (DAM) solution, as well as the CoreMedia CMS.
  • "Alongside CoreMedia, we are helping Mayoral to strike this balance and provide an exceptional online experience to the families around the world who rely on them for beautiful children’s clothes and accessories."

Cloudinary Named to Inc.'s Second Annual Power Partner Awards

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Cloudinary , the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, has been recognized with a 2023 Inc. Business Media Power Partner Award.

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  • Cloudinary , the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, has been recognized with a 2023 Inc. Business Media Power Partner Award.
  • Key to the company’s inclusion in this year’s list were supporting testimonials from customers Mecum Auctions , Neiman Marcus and River Island.
  • Neiman Marcus, for example, turned to Cloudinary to help power its digital experience transformation and ominichannel content strategy.
  • "Being recognized with an Inc. Power Partner award reflects our belief that customer success defines our success," said Genevieve Haldeman, VP of Marketing at Cloudinary.

Contentful Announces New Products and Capabilities for the Contentful® Composable Content Platform to Intelligently Accelerate Creativity of Digital Teams

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Wednesday, October 4, 2023

DENVER and SAN FRANCISCO and BERLIN, Oct. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Contentful, a leading composable content platform for digital-first business, announced today the launch of new products and capabilities, including AI-driven advancements, that unlock all digital content across the organization to deliver impactful experiences at scale.

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  • This will revolutionize the way we create, deliver, and interact with content," said Steve Sloan, CEO of Contentful.
  • Highlights of the new and enhanced capabilities across the Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and Contentful Ecosystem include:
    The Contentful Platform enables developers to break down content silos and orchestrate content from any source across the organization to create and deliver digital experiences faster, consistently, and at scale.
  • The AI Content Type Generator, announced previously, streamlines the content model creation process so developers can accelerate time to market.
  • Contentful Studio empowers digital teams, including marketers, designers, and content creators, to visually assemble and manage digital experiences for any channel without developer assistance.