Jon Dahl
Co-founder, CEO
Co-founder and CEO at Mux. Former founder (Zencoder), ex-software developer, ex-philosophy grad student. Makes better BBQ than code these days.
Published on September 4, 2024 (8 months ago)
What to talk with Mux about at IBC this year
The Mux team will be IBC 2024 in Amsterdam. Come chat with us about new features, Quality of Experience analytics, and premium video capabilities.
Published on July 26, 2024 (9 months ago)
Why video quality matters
High-quality video boosts engagement, SEO, and brand credibility. Learn more about why this matters and what you can do to deliver quality video experiences.
Published on October 18, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Video is too expensive
We'll be the first to admit it: video is too expensive. Mux is working hard to solve that problem and give you the levers for affordable and flexible pricing.
Published on September 1, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
The last 6 months for Mux Data: big events, big data, big updates
From record-setting scale to new metrics that make your analytics even more useful, Mux Data has been busy over the last few months.
Published on April 27, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
How to transcode video 100x faster; or, a Gordian knot cut
Five years ago, in a blog post titled “The fastest video publishing in the multiverse,” I made the following claim: Mux Video is the first video streaming platform that doesn’t make users wait for tra...
Published on December 20, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
2022 retro: what we shipped and what’s next
At our first-ever Mux company conference in May (shout out to the team behind The Mux Informational), I shared our long-term roadmap and vision. TL;DR: We exist to democratize video, which is such a f...
Published on December 22, 2021 (over 3 years ago)
Stream Club is joining Mux!
We're excited to announce that Stream Club, a platform that makes it easy for customers to build live video broadcasts and create studio-like experiences, is joining Mux!
Published on December 14, 2021 (over 3 years ago)
Being a great developer product company is more than building products for developers
Developer product companies, despite massive success in some cases, are still early, and the playbooks aren’t as developed.
Published on April 30, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Online video is changing and Mux is growing
We raised some money! $100M Series D; Coatue, Accel, A16Z; several other great investors, like Cobalt, Dragoneer, and HubSpot Ventures; etc. This would have come as a bit of a surprise to me not too l...
Published on January 13, 2021 (over 4 years ago)
Why video is awesome
I'll admit it: I'm a video nerd. I’ve worked on video for a long time, since I first hacked together a Ruby library that wrapped ffmpeg into a basic transcoder, 12 (!) years ago. RIP, rvideo. Of cour...
Published on December 21, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Mux in 2020: a (very strange) year-end review
I know it’s a cliche, but: wow, what a year. "Hope you're staying positive and testing negative," as we've all written in about 75,000 emails. A lot happened in 2020 at Mux. Here are some highlights. ...
Published on August 17, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Remote @ Mux
Here at Mux, we are implementing a remote-equal policy. This means that employees working in a core office aren't privileged over employees working from smaller offices or from home.
Published on April 30, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
Actually, now is the time to join Mux
A year ago, I wrote a blog post called Now is the right time to join Mux. I want to apologize for that blog post. In it, I asserted that April of 2019 was the right time to join Mux. It turns out I was...
Published on November 6, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Patterns and anti-patterns in company values
Company values can be exceedingly valuable, or they can be beyond worthless. You’ve probably rolled your eyes at company values at some point. Every time I see a list like “quality, integrity, and res...
Published on August 14, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
What’s coming at Mux
Mux announced this morning that we’ve raised $20M in Series B funding from Evolution, Accel, Y Combinator, and others. On one level, we’re really excited about this. Evolution, Accel, and YC are all g...
Published on April 3, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
Now is the right time to join Mux
Mux is hiring for a number of positions right now - everything from engineering to sales to customer success. We're hiring because Mux is growing. We tripled the business in 2018, and think we might a...
Published on January 31, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
Build better video in 4 simple steps
Video is hard because software is difficult at scale, and video reaches scale much more quickly than other software. When facing hard problems, it's helpful to have a framework that turns hard problems...
Published on October 1, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score
One of our goals with Mux Data is to provide meaningful data about video performance at a quick glance, while also providing the ability to drill deep when needed. We created the Viewer Experience Sco...
Published on August 20, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered
When you’re a startup, one of the most common questions you have to answer is: “What exactly do you do?” We’re answering this question all the time - on our website, on customer calls, at conferences. ...
Published on July 20, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)
Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS
HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you're building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created the ...
Published on April 17, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
Instant Per-Title Encoding
"How did you decide on your bitrate ladder?" We've asked this question to 50 video publishers over the last 6 months. With almost no exceptions, the answer has been: "I have no idea." "Some engineer...
Published on March 13, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
Build vs. buy: patterns and antipatterns
Build or buy? This decision gets made dozens of times every year by engineering teams, small and large. It's an important decision, affecting roadmaps, productivity, team composition, and customer hap...
Published on March 6, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
The fastest video publishing in the multiverse
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 February 21, 2018 (about 7 years ago)
An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters
This is the third in a series of blog posts about Mux Video. The first, Video is Too Hard, outlined the problem. The second, Announcing Mux Video, announced the new product. Abstractions are important...
Published on November 14, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming
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 10, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Video is too hard.
Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish v...
Published on November 1, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Announcing full data exports
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 (over 7 years ago)
Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis
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 April 20, 2017 (about 8 years ago)
How do users feel about video streaming quality on their TVs?
We focused our survey on one type of content: video streamed to a television, using a service like Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, or WatchESPN.
Published on April 18, 2017 (about 8 years ago)
Video is exploding and Mux raises a Series A
Mux has raised a $9M Series A funding round from Accel. We’ve created the most accurate and actionable analytics platform for video performance.
Published on November 15, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
What's new: metric comparisons and global scores
We've shipped two new features at Mux over the last two weeks. The first is a tool to compare all metrics across two or more specific values. The second is a global benchmark that gives customers an id...
Published on October 7, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Six things you can do with Mux
Since starting Mux this year, we've talked with scores of video publishers. Almost everyone wants more data about their video streaming, and usually people have a couple of specific uses for this data ...
Published on September 14, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Buffering reduces video watch time by ~40%, according to research
According to our data, just one short buffering interruption leads to 39% less time spent watching video on a site.
Published on August 31, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Why the creators of Zencoder and Video.js started Mux
For the last seven months, Mux has been hard at work on a performance analytics platform for online video publishers. Our product gives customers like PBS, IGN, and Funny or Die more information into t...
Published on August 18, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
The four elements of video performance
How do you quantify the performance of a video stream? What metrics should you use? Long after Andy Grove stressed the importance of metrics for decision-making, software companies are becoming more a...
Published on August 17, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
Introducing Mux (the blog)
Welcome to the Mux blog! Stay tuned for company news, product updates, and articles about online video technology and performance. In the meantime, here are some helpful resources. Sign up for Mux ...