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Video is too hard.

Published on November 10, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readVideo education

Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish v...

Announcing full data exports

Published on November 1, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl2 min readProduct

A quality of experience analytics platform like Mux does three things. Accurately measure what happens when someone watches a video, across different platforms and devices. Collect those measurements...

Published on October 24, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Nicholas Chadwick
By Nicholas Chadwick7 min readVideo education

Here at Mux, we’re always trying to make sure we build products that make our customers better able to understand their video, and how to improve it. One of the common questions we get is how folks can...

Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis

Published on August 31, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl3 min readProduct

Video publishing sometimes feels like a Rube Goldberg machine. To get a single video to play back successfully, a dozen different systems need to play nicely together: websites, players, browsers, ISPs...

Video View Page Revisited

Published on August 25, 2017 (about 7 years ago)

Jacqui Manzi
By Jacqui Manzi4 min readProduct

We recently redesigned our aggregate metric charts and decided to take another look at how we help customers make sense of individual video views. Previously, the top portion of our video view page br...

Published on August 21, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder2 min readProduct

In January 2017 Mux announced support for error-rate alerts in our analytics service. Learn about improvements to alert actionability and visibility.

It's your data, build things with it: Announcing public beta access to our API

Published on July 26, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure3 min readProduct

We're proud to call ourselves a developer-focused company. We want developers to want to use our products and actually enjoy it when they do. When we build new features or tools, we want the person tha...

So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)

Published on June 30, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Matthew McClure
By Matthew McClure13 min readProduct

Part 2/2 in a series on how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. We'll explore a few charting libraries and talk about how we picked ours.

android graffiti

Published on June 27, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Scott Kidder
By Scott Kidder12 min readVideo news

Philip K. Dick’s classic science-fiction story “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” confronted mankind's need to differentiate living things and machines. While it’s currently easy for us to make thi...

So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)

Published on June 22, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Steven Striegel
By Steven Striegel10 min readProduct

Part one in a two part series about how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. Part two covers the technical implementation.