The Mux Blog

Published on March 6, 2018 (over 8 years ago)

The fastest video publishing in the multiverse

By Jon Dahl • 3 min read • Product

Video publishing speed is a usability problem. When a user hits the "upload" button, they don't want to have to wait a few minutes (or longer) to see their video play. But that's what happens almost an...

Published on November 14, 2017 (almost 9 years ago)

Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming

By Jon Dahl • 4 min read • Product

Online video is growing exponentially, but still it's too hard to stream video. Video is too hard (as we discussed last week). Every area of video infrastructure - encoding, playback, delivery, workfl...

Published on November 1, 2017 (almost 9 years ago)

Announcing full data exports

By Jon Dahl • 2 min read • Product

A quality of experience analytics platform like Mux does three things. Accurately measure what happens when someone watches a video, across different platforms and devices. Collect those measurements...

Published on August 31, 2017 (about 9 years ago)

Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis

By Jon Dahl • 3 min read • Product

Video publishing sometimes feels like a Rube Goldberg machine. To get a single video to play back successfully, a dozen different systems need to play nicely together: websites, players, browsers, ISPs...

Published on August 25, 2017 (about 9 years ago)

Video View Page Revisited

By Jacqui Manzi • 4 min read • Product

We recently redesigned our aggregate metric charts and decided to take another look at how we help customers make sense of individual video views. Previously, the top portion of our video view page br...

Published on August 21, 2017 (about 9 years ago)

Improvements to Error-Rate Alerting

By Scott Kidder • 2 min read • Product

In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.

Published on July 26, 2017 (about 9 years ago)

It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API

By Matthew McClure • 3 min read • Product

We're proud to call ourselves a developer-focused company. We want developers to want to use our products and actually enjoy it when they do. When we build new features or tools, we want the person tha...

Published on June 30, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)

By Matthew McClure • 13 min read • Product

Part 2/2 in a series on how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. We'll explore a few charting libraries and talk about how we picked ours.

Published on June 22, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)

By Steven Striegel • 10 min read • Product

Part one in a two part series about how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. Part two covers the technical implementation.

Published on April 6, 2017 (over 9 years ago)

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

By Steve Heffernan • 2 min read • Product • Pricing

We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.