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As part of exploring how Cloudinary can streamline creative workflows, I built a proof-of-concept DAM app to automate animation and spritesheet generation. The app allows you to take assets from your Media Library, apply transformations, set frame timings, reorder frames, and generate either GIF animations or spritesheets instantly. All without…

What could your team accomplish with less time managing visual media? Today, Cloudinary is introducing a new agentic experience that brings that idea closer to reality — purpose-built to make your team more productive, with full control and governance built in at every step. This isn’t your typical AI…

Today, we’re expanding MediaFlows with new AI-powered capabilities that automate the time-consuming parts of the video publishing workflow: generating and translating subtitles, enriching metadata, and adding chapter markers for easy navigation. Now, teams can publish faster while making all of their videos localized and accessible by default — expanding reach,…

Hero videos are visually engaging, but can be a silent performance killer on a slow network. And if you swap them for static images to reduce page weight, you lose the beautiful animations that made your hero section so compelling. We can change that with Automated Smart Previews. In this…

User-generated content (UGC) pipelines, while great for streamlining the collection of and publication of customer content, often suffer from brittle logic. These pipelines break easily when input data patterns change (e.g., “Only allow vertical images”), leading to technical debt that can become insurmountable, fast. A hybrid architecture fixes this problem:…

PDFs are simple to create and share, but don’t offer much control. Once a raw file is downloaded, there’s no trail of who accessed it or whether it’s been shared. In this guide, you’ll build a secure portal that transforms static PDFs into dynamic, traceable assets using Next.js, Cloudinary, and…

Over the past year or two, we’ve been having a lot of conversations about the future of Cloudinary’s Libraries and SDKs. The conversations have been wide-ranging: the future of front-end frameworks, coding, and AI. It’s all been a bit dizzying, and hard to wrap our heads around. Late…

A seasonal product launch usually starts with a simple request: “Show the same item in summer’s brand colors.” Then the asks pile up. Add matching swatches. Update the hero image. Adjust the product card. Ensure the campaign page uses the exact same color story everywhere. For small teams, this is…

One of the most common questions I hear from customers is deceptively simple: How should we organize our assets in Cloudinary? Should we rely on folders or metadata? How should we handle our legacy metadata? There’s rarely a single correct structure. Every organization has different workflows, teams, and systems interacting…