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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…

Product videos are great for engagement, but terrible for conversion if shoppers can’t buy what they just saw. Let’s say a customer watches your styling video, loves the sunglasses at the 12-second mark, and wants to buy them. But now they have to pause the video, search your catalog, maybe…

I ran into a video performance problem while building a landing page. The demo video was 52MB, 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. I needed a way…

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…