Welcome to Image and Video Manager
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
Updated 11 months ago