Steven Lyons
VP, Product
Steve comes from data-driven optimization and analytics at Cedexis and Yahoo!. A tea drinker in the land of coffee.
Published on April 12, 2024 (about 1 year ago)
Don’t press skip: Introducing new ad QoE metrics
Improve revenue and retention with your streaming video by ensuring your ad Quality of Experience. Learn how the latest Mux Data ad metrics can help.
Published on December 11, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Beyond content: the crucial metrics for successful ad-supported streaming
New Ad Metrics are now in beta for Mux Data. Monitor ad performance and delivery and how they impact your viewers' QoE.
Published on September 14, 2023 (over 1 year ago)
Single pane of glass video observability with New Relic and Mux
Get full visibility into your video delivery ecosystem to quickly resolve performance issues, so you can drive user experience, engagement, and revenue.
Published on May 1, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Video analytics and Mux Data: Reflecting on NAB and what streamers care about today
For the past several years at NAB, we’ve spent hours with video engineering leaders from some of the largest media companies on the planet. This is just one more in-person opportunity for us to connect...
Published on April 4, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Get more from your player analytics and Akamai CDN logs with CMCD
Using CMCD with Mux Data and Akamai, tie your viewer’s quality of experience analytics together with CDN performance logs to achieve end-to-end visibility.
Published on February 22, 2023 (about 2 years ago)
Tie together your client and CDN logs using Mux Data with CMCD
I have young kids, so I spend a lot of time looking for missing toys. Often we end up finding those toys under a couch or between the bed and a wall. Searching all the nooks and crannies can be hard — ...
Published on August 10, 2022 (almost 3 years ago)
Do more with your video data — launching Streaming Exports in Mux Data.
Announcing general availability of Streaming Exports in Mux Data. You can stream data of individual views as they complete!
Published on April 4, 2022 (about 3 years ago)
How live is your stream? Measuring live latency at scale with Mux Data.
Announcing the beta for the Live Stream Latency metric!
Published on November 9, 2021 (over 3 years ago)
Mux Data: More features and better pricing for developers
Announcing broader access to powerful Mux Data features, and dramatically better pricing for developers.
Published on November 2, 2021 (over 3 years ago)
Giving developers more with Mux Data + Mux Video
We launched a new API for real-time video view and unique viewer data, along with improvements to combine the superpowers of Mux Data and Video.
Published on June 24, 2021 (almost 4 years ago)
Track the success of your videos with new Engagement Metrics
Before you invest in optimizing your video platform, you first want to know if your videos are gaining traction. Introducing Engagement Metrics - track the success of your videos.
Published on April 6, 2021 (about 4 years ago)
Device detection is a journey, not a destination
There are multiple analytics products that use device detection for reporting. How hard could it be? Just throw the user agent at a device detection library and off you go. Nope, wrong.
Published on November 23, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Mux Data, now twice as helpful!
Earlier this year, we undertook a big project to replace the data backend Mux Data uses for our metrics, views, and errors. It was a “replacing the engines on the airplane while flying” project and lar...
Published on October 8, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Monitor Viewer Experience Problems with new Customizable Alerts
When Mux adds new features to any of its products, we try hard to make sure that the feature is easy to use and valuable by default. This led us to develop our existing anomaly-detection-based alerting...
Published on August 20, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices
One of the important factors in viewing experience is the bitrate that is played on a device. Mux Data now provides a few different ways to view bitrate data collected from viewer streams.
Published on June 26, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)
Respond to and Resolve Incidents with the Real-Time Dashboard
Our new Real-Time Dashboard features make things easier to manage when an outage or customer-impacting incident occurs. See what steps you should follow in resolving any incident.
Published on May 11, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
Access to all your data via the Real-Time Dashboard API
We know a single interface is an important part of customers’ monitoring infrastructure so we wanted to make it easy to use existing tools but still have access to the low-latency, real-time metrics.
Published on May 11, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
Reporting Flexibility with New Advanced Filtering
With advanced filtering, Mux Data has the reporting flexibility to match the complexity of the issues you're trying to resolve.
Published on May 7, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
What is Video Observability?
An observable system allows the operator to infer the functioning of a system with just knowledge of its outputs. “Video Observability” describes the monitoring of complex video streaming platforms.