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 November 1, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
How we made Mux Player’s loading feel great
With lazy-loading and a blurhash placeholder, we make the loading experience of Mux Player feel great in our Next.js app
Published on October 27, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
Manage captions and get production-ready Mux Player code in the latest update to the Mux Contentful app
Mux is proud to partner with Contentful, the API-first content platform, to help you create, manage, transcode, publish, and stream video content on any digital channel. We’ve been hard at work since o...
Published on October 26, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
The modern shopping stack: how Commerce-UI marries video and ecommerce to drive results
See how Aether brought their beautiful, cutting-edge storefront to life through Commerce-UI, alongside Mux partners Sanity, Shopify, and more.
Published on October 25, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
Using Mux Player to Add Videos to my Next.js Blog
In this post, I'll show you the simple steps to embed a video in your Next.js blog or website by using the newest player package from Mux.
Published on October 19, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
Slow is stable, stable is fast: building Mux Player on the “slow” platform of web components
There have been a lot of hot takes and chatter flying around the interwebs about web components over the last few months. We read a lot of it, but the day-to-day 280-character hot takes on Twitter are ...
Published on October 14, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
Adding interactive videos to your e-commerce website can help increase conversion rates by 20%
Why your brand needs videos outside of social platforms With the introduction of App Tracking Transparency in iOS 14.5, online brands now have a dramatically different relationship with social platfor...
Published on October 10, 2022 (about 2 years ago)
Gone in a Flash: a brief history of HTTP Adaptive Streaming
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is unquestionably and by orders of magnitude the dominant way of streaming media on the internet. Part history, part “hindsight is 20/20” revisionist history, and part tec...
Published on October 4, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
Building a Recommendation Engine with Amazon Personalize and Mux
Learn how to use Amazon Personalize along with Mux Data to build a professional recommendation engine for your video content.
Published on September 14, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
An HLS.js cautionary tale: QoE and video player memory
Your viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) can be enhanced by understanding and optimizing memory in the client application
Published on September 13, 2022 (over 2 years ago)
400 water bottles and a video guestbook at CascadiaJS
Mux was proud to be a sponsor at CascadiaJS 2022 – here's a recap of our experience in the high desert.