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A promo image for Mux fall launch week 2024. It features a jack-o-lantern with a purple steam rising from its cap. A pair of green hands with long black fingernails cups the pumpkin in their palms. A spooky bat flies nearby.

Published on November 5, 2024 (3 months ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss3 min readCompany

Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.

Image reads basic video quality and it's connected to MP4

Published on October 31, 2024 (3 months ago)

Mike Smith
By Mike Smith2 min readProduct

MP4 support for basic assets has just been unlocked. MP4s are perfect for offline playback, social embeds, and more. Learn how you can start using them today.

Radio buttons with Premium video, plus video, and basic video. Premium is selected with with the text NEW! next to it.

Published on October 30, 2024 (3 months ago)

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff7 min readProductVideo quality

Introducing premium quality video level for live and on-demand videos. It optimizes quality for your premium content using AI-driven per-title encoding.

Text reads Dropped views text to an eye with an x in it

Published on October 28, 2024 (3 months ago)

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler3 min readProduct

Introducing View Dropped Percentage — a new Mux Data metric to help you identify trends in unexplained dropped views.

Scissors clipping a video timeline

Published on October 24, 2024 (3 months ago)

Erik Peña
By Erik Peña3 min readProduct

Instant clipping is now available for all on-demand video assets, allowing quick clip creation without encoding or storage costs.

A skeleton hand grips a pink quill. Aware of its finite time, it scribes code onto a black surface.

Published on October 14, 2024 (4 months ago)

Dave Kiss
Darius Cepulis
Rob Mach
By Dave, Darius, and Rob11 min readProduct

When's the last time you audited your developer docs? We felt the pain that our customers were facing with our docs — and set off on an adventure to fix it.

waveform canceled

Published on October 10, 2024 (4 months ago)

Alex de Chaves
By Alex de Chaves4 min readCustomers

The surprising cause behind our customer’s silent video – and how it took 133 messages to solve It

Glassdoor logo and Mux logo, on a green background

Published on October 9, 2024 (4 months ago)

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala5 min readCustomers

Glassdoor partners with Mux to build video features that enable authentic community engagement for their users.

Image reads player.style by Mux

Published on October 8, 2024 (4 months ago)

Steve Heffernan
By Steve Heffernan3 min readProduct

Unlock creativity in video player customization with Player.style, a new open-source project by Mux.

Chart representing 13 months of data

Published on September 9, 2024 (5 months ago)

Ashley Cutler
By Ashley Cutler4 min readProduct

Introducing long-term storage for Mux Data, giving customers more flexibility to analyze video performance over time. Now in private beta.