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We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.

Split image. On the left, a blurry, distorted frame from the infamous early AI-generated video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, with a clump of noodles hanging from his mouth. On the right, a dark gray panel with a wide-eyed “eyes” emoji in the center.

Published on November 10, 2026

How a designer learned to unsee Will Smith eating spaghetti

Rob Mach
By Rob Mach • 6 min read • Company • AI

How Mux’s Creative Director designed and built a custom Video.js v10 skin himself, using Figma to design, Claude Code to build, and the browser to review.

Some happy little cartoon Robots celebrating the Mux Robots GA

Published on October 27, 2026 (15 days ago)

Humans and agents rejoice: Mux Robots is now GA

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff • 10 min read • Product & Company • AI

Mux Robots is generally available (GA), with a stable v1 API, two new AI workflows for video structure and written content, and six months of improvements.

Three dollar sign icons on green cards, each rendered in a different style: pixel art, flat, and 3D.

Published on April 3, 2026 (7 months ago)

Simple pricing doesn't work for infrastructure

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure • 11 min read • Company & Product • Pricing

Simple pricing is great for consumers, bad for infra. What we learned building Mux’s pricing.

Open Source Pledge + Mux

Published on March 10, 2026 (8 months ago)

Mux joins the Open Source Pledge

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure • 3 min read • Company

Mux pledges allegiance, to OSS, and to the...uh...software for which it stands. For real, Mux promises to pay open source maintainers on a consistent basis.

Mux Rewind 2025

Published on December 18, 2025 (11 months ago)

Mux Rewind 2025: Meeting developers where they are

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 13 min read • Company

From price cuts to AI tooling to Video.js v10, this year we made it easier to build with video wherever you are. Check out everything Mux launched in 2025.

Illustration of a video upload interface. A hand cursor with a green plus sign is dragging a file named 'MYNEWVIDEO.MP4' toward a black upload icon with an upward arrow on a yellow background.

Published on September 9, 2025 (about 1 year ago)

Even devtools need great dashboards

Darius Cepulis
Rahim Alwer
Steve Heffernan
By Darius, Rahim, and Steve • 7 min read • Engineering & Company

We’ve made some big changes to the Mux dashboard, and learned some big lessons about developer experience along the way

A design showing me, Dave, with my hands out in a grand pose, basking in the glorious SLC sunlight that streams through the loft window at Squatter's brewery. I'm presenting about the Web Dev Challenge. The image is desaturated and overlaid with two logos, one for Mux, and one for Epic Web.

Published on April 1, 2025 (over 1 year ago)

Why we (still) sponsor developer events in 2025

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 7 min read • Company & Events

Is sponsoring developer conferences actually worth it? Here’s a list of reasons why being an event sponsor is a key component of Mux’s marketing strategy.

Mux Wrapped 2024

Published on December 20, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Mux Rewind: our 2024 in review

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 11 min read • Company

The end of the year is a great time to reflect on the bigger picture: what have we accomplished? Where are we headed? What can we celebrate?

A promo image for Mux fall launch week 2024. It features a jack-o-lantern with a purple steam rising from its cap. A pair of green hands with long black fingernails cups the pumpkin in their palms. A spooky bat flies nearby.

Published on November 5, 2024 (about 2 years ago)

Here's everything we launched in Fall 2024

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Company

Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.

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Published on August 16, 2024 (about 2 years ago)

Here's everything we launched in Summer 2024

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Company

Each day this week, we shared some of the latest happenings here at Mux to help you build out professional and flexible video integrations into your apps.

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