This tutorial takes you through the necessary steps to start using Image and Video Manager to manage and optimize your short-form videos.

You'll learn how to:

• Add the Image and Video Manager (Videos) rule and behavior to a property
• Create a video policy to automate video optimizations

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you meet the following prerequisites.

You will need:

• A login to ​Akamai Control Center​
• Access to Property Manager
• A contract that includes Image and Video Manager
• An active web performance configuration
• A property corresponding to the website with the videos you wish to optimize

If you do not have a web performance configuration, you will need to create one.

• For non-secure delivery, see Serve content over HTTP
• For secure delivery, see Serve content over HTTPs

For more information about creating a property, see the Property Manager documentation.

Tutorial outline

This table provides a high-level overview of the tutorial.