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VELTRA Cuts Costs and Improves Visual Experiences 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 featured travel itineraries, the VELTRA site also serves leisure travelers with meticulous support including tips and pointers along with comprehensive and helpful responses to questions.

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The Benefits of the 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 understand the headless concept of open APIs and their benefits. However, as impressed as you might be by the architecture’s advantages, you hesitate to look into the related applications for adoption because they require more expertise to manage than the standard ones in an all-in-one e-commerce platform.

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Cloudinary's Mapping Capability Creates Images From Forsyth-Edwards Notation Strings

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 emotional attachment and drug addiction stemming from childhood. That miniseries is a smash hit among chess fans. Since its release, Google’s search queries for “chess” have doubled, and those for “how to play chess” have hit a nine-year peak. Inquiries for “chess sets'' on eBay are up a whopping 250 percent1.

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How 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 shopping outlet. Accordingly, we as consumers have come to learn how varied retailers and brands are in e-commerce savvy.

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French 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 sports enthusiasts. Since the invention of natural gut strings for racquets in 1875, Babolat continued its long-standing tradition of innovation in support of players and the game by continuously adding racquet-sport equipment to its product portfolio.

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Brands Are Rigorously Ramping Up on Visual Storytelling Through Video

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; others are ramping up fast. Doubtless, although the tactics vary, video capabilities are garnering a lot of attention—and for good reason.

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Build an Engaging E-commerce Site Along With a Riveting UX

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 attention in the search results, the assortment page, or the product page that convinced you to make the purchase?

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Global Study Strengthens Case for Brands to Support UGC

In our increasingly networked world, the content users generate on companies’ websites—from reviews to pictures to home videos—are skyrocketing in both popularity and influence. Such content frequently and indirectly promotes products and services for the brands concerned, lending more credibility than conventional advertisements.

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Cloudinary Supports JPEG XL

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Cloudinary Supports JPEG XL

Since its founding, Cloudinary's mission has been to help companies unleash the full potential of their media to create the most engaging visual experiences. In keeping with that quest, we support new codecs for images and videos as soon as possible.

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