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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.

Published on October 27, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Manage captions and get production-ready Mux Player code in the latest update to the Mux Contentful app

John Reigart
Erik Peña
By John and Erik • 5 min read • Partnerships

Mux is proud to partner with Contentful, the API-first content platform, to help you create, manage, transcode, publish, and stream video content on any digital channel. We’ve been hard at work since o...

A product shot of black boots walking in the snow, with the text "New Arrival: Step toward adventure" and an "Explore" button

Published on October 26, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

The modern shopping stack: how Commerce-UI marries video and ecommerce to drive results

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia • 4 min read • Partnerships

See how Aether brought their beautiful, cutting-edge storefront to life through Commerce-UI, alongside Mux partners Sanity, Shopify, and more.

A screenshot of a Next.js blog with Mux Player on it. Blogception.

Published on October 25, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Using Mux Player to Add Videos to my Next.js Blog

Liam Lindner
By Liam Lindner • 4 min read • Engineering

In this post, I'll show you the simple steps to embed a video in your Next.js blog or website by using the newest player package from Mux.

image of mux player

Published on October 19, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri • 13 min read • Engineering

There have been a lot of hot takes and chatter flying around the interwebs about web components over the last few months. We read a lot of it, but the day-to-day 280-character hot takes on Twitter are ...

Published on October 14, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Adding interactive videos to your e-commerce website can help increase conversion rates by 20%

John Reigart
Harris Gani
By John and Harris • 11 min read • Partnerships

Why your brand needs videos outside of social platforms With the introduction of App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5, online brands now have a dramatically different relationship with social platfor...

A stack of windows that showcase different approaches to streaming video implementations over the years

Published on October 10, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Gone in a Flash: a brief history of HTTP Adaptive Streaming

Christian Pillsbury
By Christian Pillsbury • 16 min read • Video education

HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is unquestionably and by orders of magnitude the dominant way of streaming media on the internet. Part history, part “hindsight is 20/20” revisionist history, and part tec...

A blurry photo of shelves holding many different VHS boxes

Published on October 4, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Building a Recommendation Engine with Amazon Personalize and Mux

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 9 min read • Partnerships

Learn how to use Amazon Personalize along with Mux Data to build a professional recommendation engine for your video content.

Many many video frames rebuffering

Published on September 14, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

An HLS.js cautionary tale: QoE and video player memory

Scott Kellicker
By Scott Kellicker • 5 min read • Video education

Your viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) can be enhanced by understanding and optimizing memory in the client application

A mockup of custom Mux water bottles that were designed for CascadiaJS conference.

Published on September 13, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

400 water bottles and a video guestbook at CascadiaJS

Dave Kiss
Dylan Jhaveri
Darius Cepulis
Amin Amos
By Dave and 3 others • 6 min read • Events

Mux was proud to be a sponsor at CascadiaJS 2022 – here's a recap of our experience in the high desert.

Image of a person in workout clothes, on an exercise mat doing a crunch on a wood floor. Photo by Jonathan Borba on Unsplash

Published on September 6, 2022 (about 4 years ago)

Strengthen your video posture with lessons from the fitness industry

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala • 8 min read • Partnerships

The video landscape is ever-changing. The fitness industry has shifted the way video is consumed and built, and these changes hold lessons for every industry.