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Every few weeks there’s a new image model everyone says you should be using: FLUX, Recraft, Ideogram, GPT Image. Each one has different strengths, different tradeoffs, and another decision for developers to make before they’ve even written a line of code. So when I started experimenting with Cloudinary’s new…

If you’re a business that relies on third-party visual content, the same seller photos and partner videos that fuel your growth can also be your biggest bottleneck and risk.   Submitted from dozens or hundreds of different sources, these visual assets arrive at varying  levels of quality and consistency, without any…

Cloudinary’s new integration for Klaviyo brings customer and event data into dynamic visual templates to create personalized images and engaging GIFs for email campaigns. Marketers can turn approved designs into a reusable Cloudinary template, choosing which elements remain fixed and which become dynamic variables — such as name, product image,…

Your agent calls an AI image or video model (OpenAI, Google, Runway, fal) and, a few seconds later, gets back a URL or a blob of base64. Feels like the job is done. It isn’t. That raw output will probably expire, it’s the wrong size and format for wherever it’s…

Every product that lets users upload images eventually meets the same unwelcome guest: the upload you really wish hadn’t happened. A profile photo that’s actually a screenshot of something graphic. A “product shot” that’s spam. The naïve answer, just trust users and clean up later doesn’t scale past your first…

A promotional video goes live on social media with content that should’ve been flagged during review. The brand trends for the wrong reasons. Somewhere in the approval process, a step was skipped or a reviewer never saw the asset. For media publishers, the speed of content creation must match the…