The Mux Blog
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 August 31, 2017 (almost 8 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 August 25, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
Video View Page Revisited
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 (almost 8 years ago)
Improvements to Error-Rate Alerting
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 (almost 8 years ago)
It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API
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 (almost 8 years ago)
So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)
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 27, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video
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...
Published on June 22, 2017 (about 8 years ago)
So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)
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 June 16, 2017 (about 8 years ago)
Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience
Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help
Published on June 2, 2017 (about 8 years ago)
Customer Conversations: Wistia monitors their new adaptive bitrate algorithm
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!
Published on May 30, 2017 (about 8 years ago)
YouTube and the independent production studios of tomorrow
YouTube is where the production studios of tomorrow are honing their skills, but they aren’t going to stay there forever.