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“Data beats opinion.” – That one friend who always wins arguments because they brought the sources. As your team and digital asset collection grow, staying organized becomes challenging. Who’s using which assets? How often are they accessing them? Are your storage and bandwidth resources going to the right places? Cloudinary’s…

Many teams assume their video players are accessible by default. However, most don’t meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA or European Accessibility Act (EAA) standards, especially when it comes to screen reader support, keyboard navigation, and flexible captions. With these…

Modern development is becoming a conversation. Instead of just writing code, we can now instruct powerful AI agents to perform complex tasks for us. This new paradigm, however, requires a standardized way for our tools to communicate. AI-native code editors like Windsurf are at the forefront of this shift, integrating…

Before switching to Cloudinary’s Video API, the infrastructure I used worked to some extent, but it required a lot of manual work, processing and encoding videos, and getting them to load as fast as possible. Moving to Cloudinary improved my performance metrics significantly and eliminated the…

Recently, I ran into a video performance problem while building a landing page. The demo video was 52MB, which was way too large to load quickly, and it tanked the page’s speed. Lighthouse flagged it, load times spiked, and some users never saw an optimized version due to codec mismatches.

In many use cases, assets uploaded to Cloudinary should be publicly accessible. However, there are situations where assets are sensitive or confidential (for example, scans of legal documents, in-house guides, etc.). If you need to distribute these sensitive materials to another party or system through Cloudinary, it’s important to ensure…

Explore the Live Demo | View the Source Code on GitHub The Challenge of Video Thumbnails A great thumbnail can make the difference between a click and a scroll, but manually creating thumbnails for every video is tedious. You have to find the right frame, export it, and…

There’s a peculiar human desire to reconnect with their past by looking for clues in family trees. Did you get that sass from Great-Aunt Edna, who, to her dying day, declined to share her prized German Potato Salad recipe? Did you get those baby blue eyes from your Mom’s side…

GitHub Repository | Live Demo Like many other organizations, your library is filled with valuable content: user interviews, team meetings, marketing webinars, online courses – the list goes on. The information you need to pull from is buried in hours of video footage, making them difficult to access,…