{"id":40258,"date":"2026-07-28T14:11:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/?p=40258"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:15:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T23:15:49","slug":"video-moderation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/video-moderation","title":{"rendered":"Video Moderation is Here: How Cloudinary Reviews Every Video Against Your Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When we launched Cloudinary Moderation<\/a>, we set out to turn static brand guidelines into automated standards that every asset entering your pipeline has to meet. Until now, that meant images. Today, we’re extending moderation to the format that’s growing fastest and is hardest to review manually: video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video moderation is now generally available in Cloudinary. Every video that enters your pipeline \u2014 from marketplace sellers, agency partners, creators, or end users \u2014 can be evaluated in near real time against your brand, safety, and compliance rules, then automatically approved, routed for human review, or rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A single video is a far richer \u2014 and far riskier \u2014 asset than a single image. It’s hundreds or thousands of frames, plus on-screen text, plus an audio track, all unfolding over time. A problem can appear for two seconds in the middle of a three-minute clip. Manual reviewers can’t watch everything, and generic filters miss the nuance of your brand. Video moderation was designed to address this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3 Ways Cloudinary Video Moderation Checks Your Video<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Video moderation in Cloudinary is built around three complementary types of checks. You can use any one of them on its own or combine them into a single set of rules so a video has to clear your visual, verbal, and catalog standards before it goes live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Content Detection: What’s in the Frame<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Object detection identifies what appears on screen: specific objects, scenes, and any other visual element you need to track. It catches anything visual that shouldn’t reach your audience and confirms that what should be there actually is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With object detection you can block inappropriate or unsafe content<\/strong> and flag explicit material, restricted objects, and other visuals that violate your policies, anywhere they appear in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Text and Transcript Checks: Everything Written and Spoken<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Video carries language in two places: the text that appears on screen and the words spoken in the audio. Cloudinary reads both. On-screen text is detected frame by frame, and the audio is transcribed and analyzed, so a claim made aloud is held to the same standard as one printed across the screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This lets you enforce rules such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n