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Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced the availability of Cloudinary Image, Video and Assets in the new AI Agents and Tools category of AWS Marketplace. Customers can now use AWS Marketplace to easily discover, buy, and deploy AI agents solutions, including Cloudinary’s Generative AI-powered Image, Video and Assets using their AWS accounts, accelerating agent and agentic workflow development.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced the Cloudinary Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, AI-ready documentation and a new integration with Base44. The MCP Server allows AI agents and LLMs like Base44, Claude, Cursor and others to easily interact with Cloudinary’s image and video APIs and award-winning documentation using natural language. This enables developers and builders alike to turn time-consuming yet business-critical work into lightning fast builds and actions, accelerating development time from days or weeks to minutes.

Retailers are using visual media intelligently to create the frictionless, personalized online and in-store experiences that consumers love, according to global research out today from Cloudinary. A full 93% of retailers estimated that personalization alone delivers anywhere from 50-400% improvement in business outcomes. Crucially, the survey also revealed that technology adoption has matured to the point where retailers feel able to prioritize multiple consumer trends and preferences, like accessibility, sustainability and immersive experiences like virtual try-on and 3D. Explore the results here.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers the world’s top brands, today announced the launch of Cloudinary 3D, an innovative platform redefining how e-commerce brands showcase their products online. With Cloudinary 3D, a single 3D model powers limitless visual asset variations, enabling businesses to create interactive 3D visuals, augmented reality (AR), and photorealistic packshots with ease. The platform automates time-consuming content creation workflows, enabling faster content velocity and stronger customer engagement, while reducing return rates and visual media production costs.

Cloudinary today announced that Cloudinary Video is now available as a standalone API-first video offering with several new video innovations developed to help brands meet critical accessibility standards, such as WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.1 AA, and more easily deliver localized and live streaming video experiences at scale. Cloudinary also unveiled significant enhancements designed to allow technical teams to seamlessly embed Video as a Service (VaaS) within their software products and apps. For more information, read today’s blog.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers the world’s top brands, today announced significant advancements in its generative AI portfolio, including AI Vision, which gives developers and brands an unprecedented level of control and insight into their visual media. Cloudinary also announced several enhancements to its most popular generative AI tools including Generative Enhance, Generative Fill, Generative Restore, and Generative Upscale. Thousands of developers rely on Cloudinary’s generative AI capabilities to edit, optimize and transform media at scale with ease and efficiency.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, has been named a Visionary in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Asset Management Platforms. We believe this recognition underscores our dedication to innovation, forward-thinking strategies and understanding of where the industry is heading. Cloudinary’s modern, AI-powered DAM enables digital businesses to manage and deliver personalized, visual-first experiences at the pace today’s consumers demand with greater ease and at massive scale.

On the heels of announcing major enhancements to its digital asset management (DAM) platform, Cloudinary has been named a winner of the Inc. Power Partner Awards for the second consecutive year. The prestigious list honors B2B organizations demonstrating excellence and delivering exceptional support to their customers.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, announced new capabilities for its intelligent, API-first digital asset management (DAM) platform that further streamline every stage of the asset lifecycle. Innovations include customizable creative review and approval workflows, best-in-class portals for total control over asset sharing, and practical AI solutions to automate manual tasks. Those attending DAM New York 2024 this week are invited to visit the Cloudinary booth to learn more.

While brands agree images and video are key to building trust and credibility online, Cloudinary’s first global digital asset management (DAM) survey reveals they face major bottlenecks when trying to scale, personalize and collaborate efficiently across teams. The independent survey, commissioned by Cloudinary, found that most brands (57%) use 2-3 DAM solutions, and are hamstrung by integration, workflow, collaboration and post-production issues. 86% consider DAM integrability with other solutions in the tech stack extremely or very important and are counting on automation and generative AI to help them overcome these challenges. Learn more in today’s blog and survey infographic.

Cloudinary, the image and video technology platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, has been named a Leader in the 2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Intelligent Digital Asset Management (Doc #US51265723, July 2024).

Cloudinary, the image and video technology platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, has added several new AI capabilities to its Cloudinary Video API platform, including Dynamic Video Overlays, AI Auto Transcription and AI Auto Chaptering. These innovations, generally available now, allow developers and content editors to automate their most complex and time-consuming post-production tasks so they can deliver customized video experiences at scale in minutes.

Cloudinary, the image and video technology platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, now supports adding signed provenance metadata in compliance with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) and its Content Credentials specification, a standard for embedding secure, tamper-evident metadata in media files. Cloudinary is working to implement the standard with select enterprise customers including Dow Jones. A trusted leader in image and video management, Cloudinary is committed to helping advance the coalition’s mission to increase digital media transparency and fight fake and altered media, especially as AI-generated content becomes more prevalent.

Cloudinary, the image and video technology platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, has reached two million users – doubling its registered user base in just three years. Founded in 2012 to help developers manage and deliver fast and flawless visual content with ease, Cloudinary has remained true to this heritage. The company also attributes its success to its longstanding commitment to innovation and automation, including harnessing the power of AI, along with active involvement in industry initiatives such as the MACH Alliance and modern image codec advancements such as the JPEG XL standard.

Brands will struggle to scale their video usage and harness critical customer engagement opportunities if they can’t overcome post-production challenges according to the first Cloudinary Global Video Survey of web developers, marketers and other business leaders across 15 countries. The independent survey, commissioned by Cloudinary, found that while brands are increasingly reliant on video to build trust and confidence (78%) with their audiences, boost market awareness (65%), and drive purchases (54%) many struggle to deliver video at the scale today’s audiences demand. Surprisingly, brands face more challenges with creating video variants for different channels and devices (58%) than with creating original videos in the first place (46%). Learn more in today’s blog and survey infographic.

Cloudinary, the image and video technology platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced a series of new intelligent image optimization capabilities, including Automatic Crop (c_auto), the only solution on the market to ensure a contextually consistent, picture-perfect crop for every image at incredible scale. The company also introduced its latest generative AI innovation, Image Enhance (e_enhance), which automatically improves image quality and produces professional-looking results, as well as Enhanced Downscaling, which ensures the highest quality remains when images are reduced for use as thumbnails or previews.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today announced that MediaFlows by Cloudinary, a low-code platform used to automate visual media workflows, is now generally available. MediaFlows’ generative AI technology FlowAI empowers users to build media-focused workflows simply by typing what they want to achieve, and letting FlowAI create the workflow for them.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today announced several new Video API enhancements to speed up management, customization, and optimal delivery of long-form video experiences, such as lifestyle (how-to) videos, product demos, event recordings, and on-demand tutorials. 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.

Cloudinary today launched its fifth annual State of Visual Media Report, offering an in-depth look into how the world's most engaging brands are harnessing the power of visual content to deliver more compelling and profitable digital experiences, at scale. Representing an analysis of 8.5 trillion visual asset transactions across 439 global brands, the Cloudinary report offers insights into the major role AI continues to play in image and video optimization, the visual experience “must haves” when it comes to Gen Z consumers, and the near global dominance of mobile-first experiences. The report also reveals how properly optimized visual content is helping brands greatly reduce their digital carbon footprints.

Cloudinary, the image and video technology platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced generative AI enhancements to its Programmable Media API and enterprise digital asset management (DAM) solution, Cloudinary Assets. Cloudinary’s generative AI capabilities offer the easiest and most powerful way to edit images at scale, enabling technical and non-technical users to accelerate time to market for their most valuable assets while improving employee autonomy and productivity. The company also revealed the results of its first independent web developer survey on the demand for and practical application of evolving AI capabilities.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform, announced today that it has achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency in the category of Digital Customer Experience. Achieving the AWS Advertising and Marketing Technology Competency recognizes Cloudinary for its expertise in providing customers with a software-as-a-service (SAAS) solution that empowers marketers to reinvent workloads with AI-powered image and video optimization and automation capabilities that have saved companies thousands of working hours. Cloudinary eliminates manual tasks and streamlines workflows, enabling teams to focus on higher value work and bring visual experiences to market faster.

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. These two new features enable developers to build and deliver high-quality and high-performing visual experiences.

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.

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. The award honors B2B organizations across the globe that have proven track records in empowering entrepreneurs and helping startups grow.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today extends its asset management suite with the launch of Cloudinary Nexus, a digital asset management (DAM) solution built explicitly for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Available now with free and paid tiers, the new AI-enabled solution empowers SMBs and teams with the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to quickly and easily connect, discover and adapt assets and grow their brand with less effort, time and complexity.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced a key enhancement to its enterprise DAM, Cloudinary Assets, with the addition of Studio, a powerful new feature that allows users to quickly adapt images and video with ease and at scale. Powered by AI, Studio users will benefit from more efficient media management workflows, improved collaboration, and faster time to market. With access to built-in generative AI capabilities, users can quickly remove backgrounds, add drop shadows or otherwise manipulate images and videos to suit their needs. Cloudinary is launching Studio at the Henry Stewart DAM conference this week in New York City.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world's top brands, today announced enhancements to its MediaFlows product, including FlowAI which harnesses the power of generative AI to turn natural language into executable workflow logic. With FlowAI developers can simply describe what they want to build in plain words, and FlowAI will automatically generate the required workflow.

For the sixth consecutive year, Cloudinary has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

Cloudinary today announced it has launched Cloudinary Composable Storefront for B2C Commerce on Salesforce AppExchange, empowering customers to more easily create Salesforce Composable Storefronts filled with the rich, AI-optimized, and fast-loading images, videos and 3D experiences that engage and convert. As an API-first image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, Cloudinary is a natural fit for the headless architectures supported by Salesforce Composable Storefront, which unleash the front-end user experience from the back-end technologies and create opportunities to efficiently customize digital storefronts.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today launched New Ventures. The new Cloudinary initiative will serve as an incubator to drive a sustainable competitive advantage by exploring new domains and market opportunities in visual media and applying groundbreaking technologies like generative AI. New Ventures’ debut release is FinalTouch, a powerful generative AI solution that transforms generic product images into captivating, brand-friendly scenes in an instant. Currently in alpha release and open for early access, FinalTouch is purpose-built for small and growing e-commerce brands that lack dedicated design and tech resources. To sign up, visit https://final-tou.ch/ and read more in today’s blog.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced the availability of several new generative AI, large language models (LLM) and GPT-based features within its Programmable Media image and video APIs including Generative Fill, Generative Remove, Generative Replace, AI-powered Image Captioning, and a ChatGPT-backed natural language interface. The new Cloudinary features, available now, allow users to create customized, personalized assets in seconds and help technical teams scale quickly by intelligently automating workflows and eliminating repetitive and time-consuming image manipulation tasks. Learn more about these new features in today’s blog posts here and here.

Cloudinary customer and global fashion retailer Paul Smith was honored with a Retail TouchPoints 2023 Brand Experience Award in the Digital Innovation category for their implementation of MACH (Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless) technologies including Cloudinary, which have been central to the evolution of their digital-first customer experience. Recognized at an awards ceremony held earlier this month at the Retail & Innovation Conference and Expo in Chicago, the brand also took the top prize for Best Digital Experience as part of The MACH Alliance’s annual event MACH TWO that same week.

Cloudinary, ​​the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced the release of several new advanced video capabilities that enable brands to create and deliver faster, more engaging video at scale while maximizing the impact and ROI of their video investments. Cloudinary’s new AI capabilities for video are all available via APIs and include video generation, AI video cropping, adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming and analytics.

Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, today released the results of its first global e-commerce survey. The survey highlights generational trends along with a range of benefits to consumers and brands that managing visual content intelligently can have on the entire buying journey. The survey revealed that brands that effectively deploy images and videos to their target demographics can slash returns by up to a third, potentially saving retailers billions of dollars each year. Further analysis of the survey results and recommendations for brands to respond to the data can be found on Cloudinary’s blog.

Today, Cloudinary, the image and video platform that powers many of the world’s top brands, announced that charity: water, a nonprofit organization working to make clean, safe water accessible worldwide, has deployed Cloudinary’s award-winning Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, Assets. Cloudinary Assets will enable charity: water to streamline the management of its image and video assets, bring high-quality visual communications to market more efficiently, and improve the ROI of its other technology investments.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world's top brands, today announced an integration with commercetools, the world's leading digital commerce provider, built on modern microservice-based, API-first, cloud-native and headless (MACH) principles.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced that Boombah, one of the fastest growing sporting goods companies in the US, has selected its media experience solution to deliver flawless, visually-rich customer experiences with greater ease and efficiency. Boombah joins a large and growing number of leading retail and e-commerce brands relying on Cloudinary for modern media experience management including Bombas, Dune London, Etsy, Neiman Marcus, Minted, Paul Smith, Wren Kitchens and River Island.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced Embedded Media Experiences (EMX), developed for companies interested in seamlessly embedding its image and video capabilities into their own platforms and offerings. To date, several companies are already utilizing Cloudinary in this way including Creative Force, inriver, Square, Syndigo and Tata Communications. By embedding Cloudinary’s media technology, companies are able to extend the value of what their services provide to users at a fraction of the cost, while also creating new monetization opportunities and improving user acquisition and retention.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today released a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study by Forrester Consulting that illustrates the benefits and cost savings companies can realize by deploying Cloudinary Media Experience Cloud.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced that the UK’s number one kitchen retailer, Wren Kitchens has selected its media experience solutions to deliver flawless, visual-first customer experiences at scale. Wren Kitchens joins a large and growing community of global retail and e-commerce brands using Cloudinary for media experience management including Bass Pro Shops, Bombas, Dune London, Neiman Marcus, Minted, Paul Smith, Petco and River Island.

Cloudinary, the Media Experience Cloud that powers digital experiences for many of the world’s top brands, today launched its Cloudinary Community, a centralized hub for developers to engage with one another to help build powerful visual experiences. With more features rolling out in 2023, this initial community launch includes two new community sites, a Community Forum and a Community Discord, to bridge the gap between documentation and customer support. The program creates a reliable resource for anyone looking to get the most out of Cloudinary’s technology and share their experiences with fellow users.

Cloudinary, the Media Experience Cloud that powers digital experiences for many of the world’s top brands, today launched its fourth annual State of Visual Media Report. As the visual economy matures, this year’s report investigates the ways more than 375 leading brands across 13 vertical industries harness visual media to deliver engaging online experiences at every digital touchpoint. The report also reveals that businesses must optimize visual media to meet a wide and ever-changing range of business goals, including faster time-to-market, improved productivity and cost savings, and new priorities like accessibility and sustainability.

Today, Cloudinary announced its inclusion on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America. The list represents a one-of-a-kind look at the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent businesses. Facebook, Chobani, Microsoft, Patagonia, and many other well-known names gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.

Cloudinary, the Media Experience Cloud company that powers digital experiences for many of the world’s top brands, today announced a new integration for leading multichannel e-commerce platform Shopify. The new integration brings Cloudinary’s intelligent media optimization and editing capabilities directly to Shopify merchants. With Cloudinary, merchants can reduce image weight by up to 50% and compress video files by up to 80%* – efficiencies that ensure faster load speeds and a better user experience, all leading to improved customer engagement and increased sales.

For the fifth consecutive year, Cloudinary has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that Exclusive Resorts, an elite members-only vacation club, has deployed Cloudinary’s award-winning Programmable Media and Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions to simplify and accelerate their process for managing image and video assets across their digital properties. By allowing key media stakeholders to work seamlessly in an agile, cloud-based digital repository, Cloudinary enables the luxury club to create and deliver engaging experiences for their members and prospects more efficiently.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced that leading UK retailer, River Island, has chosen its solutions to future-proof its digital media tech stack, boost the user experience, and shorten time-to-market. River Island joins hundreds of global apparel and fashion retail brands using Cloudinary’s Media Experience Cloud solutions to improve customer experience and engagement including Babolat, Bombas, Crocs, Dune London, Everlane, Guess, Jimmy Choo, Levi’s, Neiman Marcus, and Stylight. Both companies will be participating in the MACH Alliance’s MACH ONE conference next week in London, June 28-29.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced that award-winning UK villa holiday specialist, James Villa Holidays, has chosen its digital asset management (DAM) solution. The brand will rely on Cloudinary’s DAM to establish a single source of truth for all its visual media assets, speed up time-to-market by automating complex aspects of its end-to-end photography workflow, and deliver an industry-leading customer experience.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced it will be sponsoring the first MACH ONE Conference hosted by the MACH Alliance June 28-29 at The Londoner in London. An acronym for Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless, the MACH Alliance is a vendor-neutral not-for-profit organization dedicated to advocating for open, best-of-breed technology ecosystems for enterprises.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced a new program for Solutions Partners. Designed to make it easier for Solutions Partners to grow their business with Cloudinary and provide better and faster visual experiences for their customers, the program features several key features including intuitive onboarding and training pathways, high-impact co-marketing and service opportunities, and a new Partner Portal for easy access to sales and marketing tools.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that Atmosfy, a popular dining and hospitality app, is using Cloudinary to automate and scale its use of video-based user generated content (UGC). For platforms like Atmosfy, capturing user attention and providing an engaging digital experience requires the instant availability of high-quality visual content for each user at a global scale, which would strain backend architecture and internal developer resources without a tool like Cloudinary to manage it.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced its new Product Information Management (PIM) integration with Akeneo, a global leader in Product Experience Management (PXM). Brands using Cloudinary with Akeneo’s flexible open-SaaS PIM can deliver impactful product experiences across all channels, no matter where or how their customers are engaging.

Cloudinary, the media experience cloud company that powers many of the world’s top brands, today announced a secondary investment from funds managed by Blackstone Growth (BXG). The transaction represents an investment of more than $100 million and values Cloudinary at $2 billion USD.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced several updates to its Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution. The enhanced offering to Cloudinary’s DAM supercharges the user experience by providing a way to optimize and customize more assets than ever before while simultaneously freeing users from tedious, time-consuming tasks, allowing them to focus on more strategic, business-oriented work.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that it reached the $100 million in annual recurring revenue mark in December 2021, cementing its status as a unicorn. The bootstrapped company also announced its acquisition of Indivio, an innovative video software company that helps modern marketing teams create and deliver high-performing, data-driven video campaigns faster and at scale.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced its acquisition of Indivio, an innovative video software company that helps modern marketing teams create and deliver high-performing, data-driven video campaigns faster and at scale. The entire Indivio team has joined Cloudinary, with CEO and co-founder Josh Dorward becoming Managing Director of the company’s newly formed Video Creative Automation business line. Cloudinary also announced that it reached the $100 million in annual recurring revenue mark in December 2021, cementing its unicorn status.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that Hunter Fan Company, the leading manufacturer of ceiling fans, has integrated Cloudinary’s award-winning Media Optimizer and Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions into their marketing and technology platform. Using both products in tandem optimizes all of Hunter’s online content and centralizes their visual assets in a single, highly accessible digital repository.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that its no-code Media Optimizer product is now available to self-serve users. All users can sign up for Media Optimizer directly from Cloudinary’s website and begin using the product instantly via both free and paid plans. The new offering makes it easy for any user to automatically optimize and deliver their visual content, such as images and videos, with little to no manual work required.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced an integration with Getty Images, a world leader in visual communications. The collaboration will provide Cloudinary users with access to millions of creative images and video assets from within Cloudinary’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution. Later today at 3:00 p.m. ET, executives from both companies, alongside Dolby Laboratories, will discuss the power of visual content and sound at ImageCon, Cloudinary’s 5th annual user conference. Register for free at www.imagecon.com.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced several innovative updates to its product portfolio. Each update is designed to enhance the customer experience and make it easier for brands to optimize their assets so they can continue to deliver fast and engaging visual experiences all over the world, across all channels, touchpoints and devices.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today launched its third State of Visual Media report*. The report, which analyzed data from more than 670 global customer brands, revealed a substantial increase in images and video content publishing during the pandemic. For example, video views nearly doubled and video bandwidth grew almost 140% in Q2 2020, when the pandemic first began. At the same time, brands are just scratching the surface when it comes to harnessing the power of new approaches like applying AI, using next-gen image and video formats, and optimizing visual media for private messaging, or “microbrowser” environments.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced three new executive appointments to support its continued growth, rapid customer adoption and product line expansion. These strategic hires include Saranya Babu as chief marketing officer, Mike Carlson as senior vice president, global customer success, and Jason Johns as vice president of sales for EMEA & APAC. All three bring extensive SaaS and cloud market experience to help usher Cloudinary into its next phase of growth.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that its Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution has been recognized with a 2021 SaaS Award in the Best SaaS Product for E-Commerce/E-Shops category.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that it has joined the MACH Alliance, the independent not-for-profit organization dedicated to advocating for open, best-of-breed technology ecosystems for enterprises, on a mission to future-proof enterprise technology and propel current and future digital experiences.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, is proud to announce that its ImageCon conference returns on October 19-20, 2021. The definitive event for anyone interested in the power of visual media, ImageCon 2021 will once again be a virtual and complimentary event designed to bring together digital experts and leaders from well-known brands to share the latest trends, best practices, and innovations fueling the best, most engaging visual stories. Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and Contentful will serve as platinum and gold level sponsors, respectively.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that its Media Optimizer solution has been named the “Best Content Management Platform” by MarTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and technologies in the global marketing, sales and advertising technology industries.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced its partnership with Visionular, the next generation video encoding and image processing technology software company. The partnership’s goal is to further extend Cloudinary’s broad support for media formats and codecs to enable the largest websites and apps in the world to deliver unmatched experiences using the AV1 video codec and its associated image format, AVIF.

For the fourth consecutive year, Cloudinary has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world, published by Forbes in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners and Salesforce Ventures.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced the launch of Cloudinary Labs, an innovation lab focused on developing concepts that disrupt the media experience space. As part of Cloudinary’s long-standing commitment to tech innovation across all facets of visual media, including the support and development of next-gen image and video codecs like JPEG XL, AVIF and AV1, Cloudinary Labs will help facilitate the analysis and development of new technologies, different approaches to media creation and processes, and cutting-edge concepts that will reshape the future of visual media.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that one million developers have registered with Cloudinary. Built by developers for developers, Cloudinary has been committed to empowering its users with the tools they need to be successful from the start. This milestone reinforces Cloudinary’s continued mission to help users and companies of all sizes and industries harness the power of visual media to create more impactful stories and connections with their audiences.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced the certification of its new SAP® Commerce Cloud Extension. The extension for managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering images and videos at scale makes it easy for brands using SAP Commerce Cloud to create immersive, in-store like shopping experiences. Fully integrated with SAP Commerce’s back office, the extension lets users familiar with this environment hit the ground running. The extension is currently available through Cloudinary and later this summer via the SAP Store.

Cloudinary, the media experience platform for many of the world’s top brands, today announced that its Digital Asset Management solution has been named a top solution in the DAM Vendor Selection Matrix™ produced by Research in Action GmbH. Among the Top 15 Global Vendors, Cloudinary leads on both strategy and execution, including in price versus value and breadth of solution. The survey also returned an excellent Recommendation Index of 98%. Download the complete 2021 Vendor Selection Matrix for DAM here.

Cloudinary has been once again recognized as a Best Place to Work in the Bay Area, an awards program presented by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Taking the #1 spot in the midsize companies category, which comprised 40 Bay Area companies, Cloudinary was honored during a virtual event late last week. Read more on the Cloudinary blog here.