Image and Video Manager offers a simple way to intelligently manage, optimize, and modify your images and short-form videos. With Image and Video Manager, you can deliver a smooth, efficient, visually engaging customer experience that can also save you time and money.

You can configure Image and Video Manager to:

• Deliver images and videos in the best width and format for the requesting device, operating system, and browser
• Reduce the byte size of images and videos without any perceptible reduction in visual quality
• Override image quality settings and deliver lower quality images when a slower connection speed is detected
• Automatically apply artistic transformations such as cropping, rotation, resizing, color adjustment, and watermarks to images

Developer tools

• API for Image and Video Manager
• Akamai CLI: Image and Video Manager Module
• Akamai Terraform provider: Image and Video Manager Module (Beta)

Use cases and examples

• Display images using filename or path
• Use query string parameters to apply transformations
• Dynamically resize images
• Resize images to fit an image grid
• Create a mobile-friendly hero image
• Validate optimizations using Piez

Tips and best practices

• Best practices for pristine images
• Best practices for pristine videos
• Best practices for testing your policy on staging
• Purge images from the cache
• Purge videos from the cache

What’s new

• Release notes