Configuration workflow

Before you begin using Image and Video Manager to manage, optimize, and transform your pristine images and videos, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Review the prerequisites to make sure you have everything you need to get started.

2. Adjust for incompatibility with other ​Akamai​ products.

3. Review best practices for your original pristine images and videos. By following these guidelines, you increase the likelihood of achieving the best image and video optimization results.

4. Connect your images and videos to Image and Video Manager. To do so, you need to add Image and Video Manager to your to your web performance configuration by:

   1. adding an Image and Video Manager rule to the property containing the domain with your images and videos
   2. adding an Image and Video Manager behavior to that rule

5. Create or edit your image and video policies. You need different policies for images and videos. Image policies contain your image optimization and artistic transformation settings. Video policies contain your video optimization settings.

6. Apply your policies. There are three ways to apply policies. Select the best method for your unique needs.

7. Test on staging. Once a policy is saved, it is automatically activated on the staging network, where you can test whether it is being correctly applied to your images and videos.

8. Go live on production.