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Building an AI Media Assistant With Cloudinary MCP Server
Ever wished you could just tell your AI assistant to handle your media files? Not just chat about them, but actually upload, transform, search, and organize your Cloudinary assets through natural conversation? Well, you’re in for a treat! In this post, we’ll build a fully functional AI media assistant using…

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How to Trigger Video Optimizations Automatically During Upload
If you’re still manually converting MOV to MP4, compressing videos with desktop tools, or hardcoding delivery formats, you’re introducing avoidable delays and bloated files into your digital media pipeline. For teams running media-rich websites or e-commerce storefronts, this adds up quickly to slower load times, uneven quality across devices, and…

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Signed URLs With Cloudinary: The Why and How
When uploading images to Cloudinary programmatically, you can do it from the frontend or the backend, depending on the app’s needs. Frontend uploads are more common in customer-facing apps, where speed is critical, and you want the image to be on a server somewhere as soon as possible without any…

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Creating an MCP Server to Interact With Cloudinary’s DAM
If you’ve ever wanted to let an AI assistant manage your media library, like uploading, deleting, or even fetching images for you, then you’re in the right place. In this post, we’ll walk you through the process of creating an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that connects with…

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Cloudinary DAM Apps: What They Do and How They Improve Your Visual Media Workflow
If your work involves managing large amounts of images and videos, you know that the challenge isn’t just saving these files. The real challenge is making sure they’re easy to find, use, and share across teams, efficiently. If your current system for handling all these digital assets feels more like…

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Accessible Videos Are the Next SEO Hack. Here’s How to Do It Right.
Video content is exploding across search, social media, and AI-generated answers, but few optimize for discoverability or accessibility. When people think of SEO, the first things that come to mind might be text based: keywords, backlinks, page speed, etc., but Google search has changed. AI-powered answers, video-first social feeds, and…

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Animating Image State Changes in SPAs With View Transition API + Cloudinary
Creating a smooth, responsive user experience in modern single-page applications (SPAs) requires more than just fast loading times, it demands visual continuity. The View Transition API, a new feature in modern browsers, provides a powerful yet simple way to animate changes between DOM states, helping users stay grounded in…

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Can You Really Cut Video Load Times by 50%? We Tried It
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…

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New: Create Studio-Quality Product Scenes in Minutes With Cloudinary 3D
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…

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