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 October 7, 2025

How Smartzer eliminated manual video workflows to focus on unlocking new revenue

By Stacy Fernández • 9 min read • Customers

With Mux's video infrastructure, Smartzer eliminated manual encoding, allowing it to scale to 175K concurrent viewers, free up developer time, and unlock new revenue streams.

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Published on October 7, 2025 (1 day ago)

Your Mux bill explained: New billing breakdown in the dashboard

By Steven Lyons • 5 min read • Product

Track your Mux spending over time with the new Billing Breakdown. Understand cost trends and compare billing cycles.

Published on October 3, 2025 (5 days ago)

Shaping your AI prompts: using an agent to reduce MCP overhead

By Ben Chuba • 7 min read • Engineering

Learn how to offer your clients or employees simple, plain language ways to interact with your systems by connecting a local MCP to a Mastra agent.

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Published on September 12, 2025 (26 days ago)

Introducing advanced static renditions for resolution-specific MP4s

By Steven Lyons • 4 min read • Product • Video quality

Generate MP4 files at specific resolutions (270p-2160p) with Mux's new advanced static renditions.

Published on September 11, 2025 (27 days ago)

From Vimeo to Mux: Wes Bos’s migration story

By Dave and Staci • 11 min read • Customers

Dave Kiss, Senior Community Engineering Lead at Mux: Wes, the people must know. Who are you and what do you do? Wes Bos, Fullstack JS Course Creator and Co-host of Syntax.fm: Hey, uh, my name is Wes ...

Illustration of a video upload interface. A hand cursor with a green plus sign is dragging a file named 'MYNEWVIDEO.MP4' toward a black upload icon with an upward arrow on a yellow background.

Published on September 9, 2025 (29 days ago)

Even devtools need great dashboards

By Darius, Rahim, and Steve • 7 min read • Engineering & Company

We’ve made some big changes to the Mux dashboard, and learned some big lessons about developer experience along the way

Published on September 4, 2025 (about 1 month ago)

How Skool built affordable native video in 5 weeks

By Matthew and Staci • 17 min read • Customers

Skool launched native video in 5 weeks with Mux, achieving 98% engagement rates and free native video hosting for community creators.

Illustration of a wacky audio player interface on an orange grid background. The player includes a play button, a volume button with a shouting face emoji above it, a progress bar showing 6:05, and a playback speed control labeled “1.46x” with a location pin icon above it. Below, text reads “CURRENTLY CONNECTED 6” with two yellow connectors beside the number.

Published on September 3, 2025 (about 1 month ago)

It's not that bad; it's worse. Meet the actual worst video player.

By Christina and Dave • 16 min read • Engineering

I thought I had built the worst video player ever imagined. Then, Christina Martinez submitted her concoction to the Worst Player contest… and I was appalled.

Published on August 29, 2025 (about 1 month ago)

Synamedia + Mux: Turning video performance data into smarter CDN decisions

By Eric Elia • 8 min read • Partnerships

Showcasing at IBC: learn how Synamedia's Quortex Switch uses Mux's real-time QoE data to automatically optimize CDN switching

Published on August 28, 2025 (about 1 month ago)

How Movement built a scalable, affordable video monetization platform for creators

By Stacy and Greg • 8 min read • Customers

Movement used Mux to offer seamless, affordable native video with unlimited uploads — helping creators avoid caps, cut costs, and monetize their apps.

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