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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.

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Published on June 27, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder12 min readVideo news

Philip K. Dick’s classic science-fiction story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” confronted mankind's need to differentiate living things and machines. While it’s currently easy for us to make thi...

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

Published on June 22, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

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

Steven Striegel
By Steven Striegel10 min readProduct

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

Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience

Published on June 16, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford12 min readVideo education

Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help

Customer Conversations: Wistia monitors their new adaptive bitrate algorithm

Published on June 2, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

Customer Conversations: Wistia monitors their new adaptive bitrate algorithm

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller7 min readCustomers

When Wistia pushes a new algorithm they want to verify that it's not making things worse. After they got hooked up with Mux they were able to see everything!

YouTube and the independent production studios of tomorrow

Published on May 30, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

YouTube and the independent production studios of tomorrow

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller16 min readVideo news

YouTube is where the production studios of tomorrow are honing their skills, but they aren’t going to stay there forever.

Rebuffering: The Most Frustrating and Frequent Problem for Video Consumers

Published on May 8, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

Rebuffering: The Most Frustrating and Frequent Problem for Video Consumers

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller3 min readVideo news

Users said the most frustrating problem was when the video stalled or had to rebuffer. This is not surprising as buffering can cause a huge drop in viewers.

Notes from Flink Forward San Francisco 2017

Published on May 5, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

Notes from Flink Forward San Francisco 2017

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder6 min readEvents

Highlights from the FlinkForward San Francisco 2017 conference by Scott Kidder from Mux.

Monitoring and Architecting for Failure at Mux

Published on May 5, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

Monitoring and Architecting for Failure at Mux

Matt Ward
By Matt Ward9 min readCompany

Regardless of your background, you probably have experienced some kind of failure, but did you know exactly when and how that failure happened?

ISPs and Publishers get the blame for video streaming problems

Published on May 2, 2017 (about 8 years ago)

ISPs and Publishers get the blame for video streaming problems

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller3 min readVideo news

For Slow Load Times and Rebuffering consumers mostly blamed their ISP and their Wi-Fi, however the difference between these results is a very fine line.

Customer Conversations: IGN implements a new player with Mux

Published on April 23, 2017 (over 8 years ago)

Customer Conversations: IGN implements a new player with Mux

Eliot Miller
By Eliot Miller8 min readCustomers

Zac Shenker is the senior video engineer who directed the implementation of the new IGN video player, a project that Mux helped bring to fruition.