Skip to content

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.

Introducing filters for the Real-Time Dashboard

Published on January 14, 2019 (over 6 years ago)

Introducing filters for the Real-Time Dashboard

Steven Striegel
By Steven Striegel2 min readProduct

Since launching our real-time dashboard a few months ago we’ve seen it have enormous impact. Now it gets a powerful little update: 7 new filter dimensions.

Mux + Sanity = Responsive video in headless CMS

Published on December 18, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Mux + Sanity = Responsive video in headless CMS

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich1 min readCustomers

Big news! We’re excited to announce our first partnership for Mux Video. We’ve combined forces with Sanity.io to make it easy to upload and preview videos within their CMS, then deliver great video ex...

Introducing Direct Uploads

Published on December 17, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Introducing Direct Uploads

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure2 min readProduct

We’re thrilled to announce that getting your videos into Mux just got a little easier. 🙂 Starting today, you can now push content directly to Mux. 🎉 Up until now, if you wanted to create a new Mux ass...

TMG improves startup time by over 35% with Mux Data

Published on December 13, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

TMG improves startup time by over 35% with Mux Data

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich3 min readCustomers

Company Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. (TMG) is one of the largest media companies in the Netherlands. With various distribution channels, including newspaper and digital platforms, they bring news, sport...

New Feature: Master Access lets you download the highest quality of a video

Published on December 3, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

New Feature: Master Access lets you download the highest quality of a video

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich2 min readProduct

Right on the heels of our new MP4 Support feature, we bring you Master Access. While MP4 Support can allow users of your app to share a video more easily or watch the video offline, Master Access (also...

Published on November 21, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Video Analytics Series Part 1: Rebuffering

Ben Dodson
By Ben Dodson9 min readVideo news

Mux receives over a billion video views each month through Mux Data, and we recently spent some time looking at the most important metrics, such as rebuffering percentage, time to first frame, and vide...

Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football

Published on November 15, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Streaming video teardown: Twitch vs. Amazon Prime for Thursday Night Football

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff23 min readVideo news

Growing up in England I’ll openly admit that American Football isn’t my first choice of sport, however, by anyone's standards, American Football is huge. Last year Amazon started live streaming Thursda...

MP4 Support Added. Unleash offline viewing!

Published on November 12, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

MP4 Support Added. Unleash offline viewing!

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich4 min readProduct

In this post, you’ll learn how to allow your viewers to download videos and watch videos offline by enabling MP4 support on your Mux assets.

Our Approach To Live

Published on November 6, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

Our Approach To Live

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick5 min readProduct

What makes a great live streaming video API? This is a question Mux tackled when building our live streaming API earlier this year. We began by looking at some of the most common scenarios folks asked...

90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality

Published on October 30, 2018 (over 6 years ago)

90% of YouTube viewers don’t care about video quality

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff14 min readVideo news

(and 4 other things we learned at Demuxed 2018) Last week was the annual Demuxed conference. Demuxed is a conference designed by, and for developers working with video. This year for the first time, i...