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 How to Build a Smart Video Thumbnail Picker With Next.js, Cloudinary, and Prisma

Topics Next.js, Video
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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…

Uncovering Family History With Cloudinary’s Image Transformations and MCP Servers

Topics AI, Image, Image Transformation
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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…

Building an AI Video Insights App With Next.js, Cloudinary, OpenAI, and Prisma

Topics AI, Next.js, Video
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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,…

Do You Have a Successful Flagship Product? Great. Now Reinvent Yourself.

Topics Cloudinary
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A successful flagship product is the dream of every technology organization (and in general), but it also raises the following question: How do you continue to grow, innovate, and meet the next significant achievement? As a company grows and matures, work processes become more organized and quality-focused. This is a…

What to Do When Your Web Site is Slow as Molasses in January

Topics DAM, Digital Asset Management, Performance Optimization
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Web performance is one of those topics that simmers on the back burner for some developers, something that, unless well-regulated and occasionally stirred (read: fine-tuned) can easily boil over. It’s a well-worn mantra that for each second of wait time experienced by a user, revenue is lost. Bounce rates, e.g.

Using Cloudinary’s New MCP Server to Scrape Mozzarella, Camembert and Parmesan

Topics Agentic, Asset Management
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I’m always interested in how new technology can help us make our esoteric tasks a little less manual. Speaking of esoteric tasks, did you know that I curate a machine learning model to classify types of cheese? It was done to power a mobile app like this: The trick…

Building EAA-Compliant Video Experiences With Cloudinary

Topics Accessibility, Video, Video Player
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In our previous guide on testing videos for accessibility, we audited our content library and looked for gaps like missing captions, inaccessible players, unlabeled elements, and others. But quick fixes aren’t enough if you’re building or embedding video players at scale. This guide is for teams…

Why Unified PIM and DAM Systems Are Critical for Managing Product Assets Efficiently

Topics DAM, Digital Asset Management
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“We went from chaos to control.” That’s how Chris Teer, Director of E-commerce, Marketing & AI Technologies at Stanley Black & Decker, described their transformation during a recent webinar with Syndigo and Cloudinary.  The session explored how the company addressed the growing complexity of managing product assets at scale across…

How to Lazy Load and Autoplay Videos Without Killing Your Core Web Vitals

Topics Lazy Loading, Performance Optimization, Video
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Autoplay videos can work exceptionally well in specific contexts. Want a muted promotional banner to showcase your products? An interactive product tour? A hero section that shares your brand at a glance? When set up correctly, autoplay videos increase engagement, as users can watch your content without the extra step…

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