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How I Rebuilt Our Video Infrastructure Using Cloudinary Video API

Topics Video, Video API
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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…

How to Make Your Product Videos Shoppable Using Cloudinary and Shopify

Topics Shopify, Shoppable Video, Video
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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…

My Fastest Video Load Setup Yet (and How You Can Copy It)

Topics Performance Optimization, Video
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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…

 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…

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,…

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…

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…

Testing Your Videos for Accessibility (and Fixing Them Fast)

Topics Accessibility, AI, Video, Video Player
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Many teams are diligent about making websites and documents accessible, but video is often left out of the process entirely. A well-produced video might go public without captions, descriptive text, and a player that’s unusable without a mouse, which breaks accessibility. Digital accessibility ensures that everyone, regardless of ability, can access…

Cloudinary Now in AWS Marketplace: AI Agents and Tools Category

Topics AI, Digital Asset Management, Generative AI, Image, Video
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Cloudinary Image, Video, and Assets are officially available on the AWS Marketplace: AI Agents and Tools Category! Now developers and enterprises can deploy Cloudinary’s AI-powered visual media management capabilities using their existing AWS account.  With the help of this new listing, teams building agentic workflows will find it easier than…

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