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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.

Three cards side by side representing Mux pricing plans. The read: Pay as you go, Starter with the word new beside it, and Custom. Below each title are 3 checkmarks.

Published on February 22, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Starter Plan: a new way to play (and pay) for Video

By Meg Salisbury • 4 min read • Product • Pricing

Introducing a brand new pricing plan: Starter. $10 for $100 of usage a month.

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Published on January 26, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

The next 6 months: what’s sparking joy in our roadmap

By Matthew McClure • 5 min read • Product

One of our founders quickly reflects on what he's excited about in Mux's ~6-month roadmap.

On an orange background, is a black box that reads Captions with a list of different languages.

Published on January 18, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Guau! Wauw! Vau! Wow! VOD auto-generated captions are now available in 22 languages!

By Phil Cluff • 3 min read • Product

21 new caption languages and an API to retroactively add captions — our GA announcement of VOD auto-generated, powered by OpenAI Whisper, is full of exciting ways to make content reach more audiences.

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Published on January 17, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Introducing our coolest pricing lever yet: Automatic Cold Storage

By Meg Salisbury • 6 min read • Product • Pricing

Introducing Automatic Cold Storage beta. Our newest pricing lever for assets that haven't been accessed for 30 days or more.

On a black background is a chart in purple that's moving up, to the right. Above the chart it reads total and average. To the left there's a list of Ad Metrics. Ad impressions at 8.5M, Ad attempts, Ad breaks, Ad errors

Published on December 11, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Beyond content: the crucial metrics for successful ad-supported streaming

By Steven Lyons • 6 min read • Product

New Ad Metrics are now in beta for Mux Data. Monitor ad performance and delivery and how they impact your viewers' QoE.

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Published on December 6, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

The native mobile players you already use, with a sprinkle of Mux

By Dylan Jhaveri • 4 min read • Product

Now in beta: Mux Player SDKs for iOS and Android. Start using it today.

A bar depicting the range of video latency with standard latency on the left at >20 seconds and low latency on the right with as low as 5 seconds. The words "latency decreases" with an arrow to the right are below the bar.

Published on November 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Let’s talk video… [wait for it]... latency

By Lamia Chlala • 6 min read • Product

We’re excited to announce the general availability of two key latency features: Live Stream Latency monitoring metric and low-latency live streaming.

A video player showing a woman walking towards the bay bridge in San Francisco, the quality selector only shows 2 op

Published on October 30, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

More tools to control playback behavior: min_resolution & rendition_order

By Phil and Wanda • 6 min read • Product

Mux Video now supports 2 new playback modifiers. min_resolution to limit the renditions available. rendition_order to set the order renditions appear.

On a yellow background, there's a button that reads "Free!" And two images depicting levers, one with "Encoding" set to the middle and "Resolution" set to max.

Published on October 18, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Our next pricing lever: Baseline on-demand assets with free video encoding

By Phil Cluff • 4 min read • Product • Pricing

Introducing the next pricing lever, baseline video assets. Baseline assets are a cost-effective alternative asset type for on-demand video, with free encoding.

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Published on October 4, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Mux Player 2.0 for web & coming soon for iOS & Android

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Product

Mux Player 2.0 is here, bringing a cleaner design, new animations, and brand accent colors. Read up on this new release in this post.

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