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How to Test Instagram Photo Captions for Engagement Using DAM

Topics AI, DAM, Digital Asset Management
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As of 2024, Instagram has had over 2 billion monthly active users, 90% of whom followed at least one business, making it a prime platform for reaching broad audiences. There’s a craft to writing the perfect caption, and brands need to to catch the scroller’s eye…

Testing Your Videos for Accessibility (and Fixing Them Fast)

Topics Accessibility, AI, Video, Video Player
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Many teams are diligent about making websites and documents accessible, but video is often left out of the process entirely. A well-produced video might go public without captions, descriptive text, and a player that’s unusable without a mouse, which breaks accessibility. Digital accessibility ensures that everyone, regardless of ability, can access…

Cloudinary Now in AWS Marketplace: AI Agents and Tools Category

Topics AI, Digital Asset Management, Generative AI, Image, Video
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Cloudinary Image, Video, and Assets are officially available on the AWS Marketplace: AI Agents and Tools Category! Now developers and enterprises can deploy Cloudinary’s AI-powered visual media management capabilities using their existing AWS account.  With the help of this new listing, teams building agentic workflows will find it easier than…

Using MediaFlows to Automate User-Generated Content Moderation

Topics AI, MediaFlows, User-Generated Content
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MediaFlows, Cloudinary’s workflow automation engine, automates visual media tasks. From workflows that occur within Cloudinary, to workflows that involve connecting to other platforms in your visual media ecosystem, Cloudinary’s MediaFlows is purpose-built and integrates natively with Cloudinary’s asset pipeline. In this post, we’ll examine how you can apply workflow…

Cloudinary Video as a Service: So Builders Can Build What Matters Most

Topics Video
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Building video infrastructure in-house means navigating a long list of technical hurdles: encoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, CDN tuning, accessibility, analytics, and more. It’s a heavy lift that can drain resources from core initiatives that drive growth.  Cloudinary Video as a Service (VaaS) is built for teams who want to…

Using Workflow Automation to Enrich Metadata for Visual Media

Topics Accessibility, MediaFlows, Meta Data
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Metadata is more than just a technical detail behind an image or video. It’s the backbone of discoverability, compliance, asset reuse, and monetization. For companies managing thousands or even millions of images and videos, getting metadata right is the difference between a high-performing content pipeline and chaos. Despite its value,…

Effortless Visual Media Uploads in VS Code With the Cloudinary MCP Server

Topics AI, Image
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If you’ve ever uploaded an image for a blog post or static site, you know the drill. Open Cloudinary, drag a file, copy a URL, jump back to your editor, and paste it into your markdown. Doing this manually can break focus fast. What if, instead, you could stay in…

Build a Contact Form in Headless WordPress Using Next.js and Ninja Forms (Part 2)

Topics Guest Post, Image, Next.js, WordPress
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In Part 1, we set up a headless contact form by installing Ninja Forms with WPGraphQL, creating a secured Next.js API route (/api/contact/route.ts) for users to submit their name, email, and message via GraphQL, and built a server action (actions.ts) to bridge our client-side form. We also enhanced the…

Build a Contact Form With Image Uploads in Headless WordPress Using Next.js, Ninja Forms, and Cloudinary (Part 1)

Topics Guest Post, Image, Next.js, WordPress
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Contact forms are a fundamental touchpoint between site visitors and site owners, enabling customer inquiries, lead generation, and essential feedback that drives engagement. In headless WordPress, this can be tricky since the frontend and backend are separated. This means that you have to figure out a way for the frontend…

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