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Image & Video Manager

Automatically optimize and enhance visual media for every user, on any device

Delivering exceptional user experiences for images and videos

Optimize visual media with Image & Video Manager for byte reduction and device compatibility, while making network-aware decisions to deliver optimal quality in real time. This developer-friendly solution integrates seamlessly into existing workflows without requiring code changes or adjustments to your domain setup, and enhances performance effortlessly while maintaining compatibility across your infrastructure.

Real-time image and video optimization

Make your pages lighter and faster

Reduce bytes for images, videos, and animated GIFs — without degrading visual quality.

Enhance load time and responsiveness

Automatically enhance images and videos for responsive and adaptive web design.

Streamline asset management; speed time to market

Reduce the churn of managing and storing multiple image and video versions.

How Image & Video Manager works

Streamline

Plug-and-play solution that fits seamlessly into any workflow, requiring no code or domain changes

Customize

Take full control with presets or manual optimization using a powerful query language

Optimize

Automatically generate and deliver tailored image and video derivatives for reduced data use and enhanced quality

Simplify

Make responsive web design easier, more cost-effective, and highly efficient

Features

  • Deliver images and videos with the best quality and performance by optimizing formats and compression levels
  • Enable browsing across all channels and devices with media adapted for responsive designs
  • Easily implement and customize a viewer with media automatically optimized
  • Reduce the byte size of images and videos without any perceptible reduction in visual quality
  • Effortlessly modify images by applying cropping, rotation, resizing, color adjustment, and watermarks
  • Leverage query string parameters to chain transformations together on the fly

Customer Stories

Frank And Oak

Frank And Oak

See how Frank And Oak, a clothing manufacturer and retailer, used Akamai Image & Video Manager to automate its image optimization process and delivery.

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Ubisoft

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Wagner eCommerce Group

Learn how Akamai has served as a trusted advisor to help the Wagner eCommerce Group optimize security and performance for their users.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Image & Video Manager supports the following formats:

  • Images: JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF, WebP, and AVIF
  • Videos:
    • Container = MP4, MOV, WebM
    • Video codec = H.264, H.265, VP8, VP9
    • Audio codec = AAC, MP3, Opus, Vorbis

 

When Image & Video Manager creates the different video sizes, it simply “fits” the video inside those dimensions so the aspect ratio is never changed. Image & Video Manager will not add letterboxing (i.e., black bars) to the sides of the video that are not filled by the video.

Image & Video Manager offers visibility into network awareness for images, as well as real-time vs. offline vs. unprocessable insights on images and videos.

The Image Manager API offers an end-to-end solution to archive, manage, and deliver transformed images based on your defined policies.

Image & Video Manager currently offers over 30 transformations, including: Append, Aspect Copy, Background Color, Blur, Composite (Watermark), Contrast, Crop, Chroma Key, Face Crop, Feature Crop, Fit and Fill, Goop, Grayscale, Hue/Saturation/Lightness, Hue/Saturation/Value, IMQuery, Max Colors, Mirror, Mono Hue, Opacity, Region of Interest Crop, Relative Crop, Remove Color, Resize, Rotate, Scale, Shear, Trim, and Unsharp Mask.

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Image & Video Manager for Developers

See the five capabilities developers use to deliver great web experiences.

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