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Developers often find themselves caught between two priorities: delivering high-quality, videos that autoplay to increase engagement and meeting performance goals for fast load times and strong Core Web Vitals. That tradeoff becomes hard to ignore when video makes up the largest share of page weight. In 2022, video accounted for…

Marketing wants lifestyle photos. Developers want automation. Creative teams want consistency. Cloudinary’s latest update to 3D brings it all together. Now you can generate lifestyle product scenes using 3D models, without outsourcing, post-production, or reshoots. Static Tools Don’t Work in a Dynamic World Most brands still rely on outdated content…

The old adage that one great partnership can have an incredible impact on your business’ future has never been more true or relevant than now. The challenge is, where does a business in need of a reliable technology partner that can cut launch times, build and automate workflows, along with…

Modern visual media pipelines are a mess of glue code: upload webhooks, moderation, resizing, metadata updates, AI captioning, notifications… and a pile of one-off scripts to hold it all together. Cloudinary MediaFlows bundles everything together with a visual, production-ready workflow engine. Pair that with the MediaFlows MCP server and you…

“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.