The real estate industry is undergoing significant shifts after COVID-19. According to a National Association of Realtors® report, 97% of homebuyers last year used the Internet in their home search, and 69% of their realtor members have a website. Mobile apps and websites are now the primary modes of real estate research. Along with remote working, video and virtual house tours have become mainstream. Moreover, buyers and sellers increasingly demand a digital experience that’s fast, visually appealing, and user-friendly.

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As e-commerce becomes mainstream, the digital marketplace is becoming more competitive. To stand out amongst the noise, your site needs to perform at the top of the game. It needs to be fast— e-commerce giant Shopify cited research which found 79% of customers who are dissatisfied with the performance of a site are less likely to be repeat customers, and 47% of online shoppers expect web pages to load in two seconds or less.

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NFT trading is becoming mainstream these days. Big brands like Coca-Cola, Louis Vuitton, and even Taco Bell are getting in on the action. With the NFT universe growing, so has the development of the NFT marketplace. Due to the extremely high-value nature of the transactions conducted on these marketplaces (last year alone, Christie's sold an NFT by the artist Beeple for over $69 million, and Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT for over $2.9 million), the competition between marketplaces is only intensifying. It's more important than ever for NFT marketplaces to improve performance and stay ahead of the competition.

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We are excited to announce that imgix now supports DigitalOcean, Wasabi, and Linode. Customers who store images and videos on these S3-compatible sources can now take advantage of imgix’s full range of visual media solutions. Support for other S3-Compatible sources is coming soon! To connect your sources today, please follow our guide.

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Today, we are launching the imgix Asset Manager plugin for Figma so that you can easily build shared asset libraries across your team, search for and place existing image assets into your Figma designs, upload new high-resolution image assets, and export rasterized comps out of Figma that are immediately web-ready for sharing wherever they need to be shared. Try out the plugin today.

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Alignment between teams is a huge challenge for many businesses, especially when it comes to asset management and visual media optimization. Content managers, who strive for better asset management, and web developers, who strive for better visual media delivery, live in silos despite their best intentions. As a result, many websites struggle to meet the goals of both teams, resulting in poor web performance and slow content cycles.

But what if this didn’t have to be the case?

This is why we are excited to announce the Asset Embedding feature, now available in the Asset Manager.

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