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In my experience, working with media assets is usually fun… at the start. As my library grows, it morphs into a different kind of game. I scroll endlessly, try to remember filenames, wonder which folder something went into, and ping my teammates: “Do you remember where we put that banner…

Making videos these days is a lot more complicated than just recording something cool. You also have to make sure your video looks good everywhere your audience will be able to watch it, whether that’s on a big desktop screen or scrolling through a vertical mobile app. Every platform has…

Every piece of digital content, from your photos to marketing videos, is a part of your brand. Managing these assets comes with challenges: preventing unauthorized use, recovering from accidental deletions, ensuring that you’re always using the latest versions… Given the sheer volume of digital content today, what you need is…

The European Accessibility Act (EAA) is designed to make digital products and services usable by everyone, including people with disabilities. That includes video, whether it’s a product demo, educational content, or marketing material. And this isn’t a small audience, as over 87…

GitHub Repository | Live Demo Imagine giving your users or clients a polished dashboard where they can simply upload a video and instantly get a powerful, customizable player to embed on any website, no coding required. This is the promise of a “smart” video embed as a service.

I’ve recently been learning about web accessibility in order to write the Accessible Media guide in the Cloudinary docs. The guide focuses on how to make use of Cloudinary functionality to help make the images and videos on your website accessible to everyone. This means adding alternative text to…

Cloudinary offers powerful tools for developers looking to integrate sophisticated media operations into their applications. One key aspect of this ecosystem is the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, designed specifically to empower developers and AI agents with programmatic access to Cloudinary’s robust functionalities. Part 1: What is the Cloudinary MCP…

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…

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…