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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 Static Tools Don’t Work in a Dynamic World Most brands still rely on outdated content…

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…