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 June 30, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
So we redid our charts... (Part II: Graphing, React-ing, and maybe a little crying)
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.
Published on June 27, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Do Androids Watch Videos of Electric Sheep? How Bots React to Web Video
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...
Published on June 22, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
So we redid our charts... (Part I: designs and such)
Part one in a two part series about how we revamped the charts in our video analytics product. Part two covers the technical implementation.
Published on June 16, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Are Your Ads Worth It? - How to Measure the Effect Your Preroll Ads Have on Viewer Experience
Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help
Published on June 2, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Customer Conversations: Wistia monitors their new adaptive bitrate algorithm
When Wistia pushes a new algorithm they want to verify that it's not making things worse. After they got hooked up with Mux they were able to see everything!
Published on May 30, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
YouTube and the independent production studios of tomorrow
YouTube is where the production studios of tomorrow are honing their skills, but they aren’t going to stay there forever.
Published on May 8, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Rebuffering: The Most Frustrating and Frequent Problem for Video Consumers
Users said the most frustrating problem was when the video stalled or had to rebuffer. This is not surprising as buffering can cause a huge drop in viewers.
Published on May 5, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Notes from Flink Forward San Francisco 2017
Highlights from the FlinkForward San Francisco 2017 conference by Scott Kidder from Mux.
Published on May 5, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Monitoring and Architecting for Failure at Mux
Regardless of your background, you probably have experienced some kind of failure, but did you know exactly when and how that failure happened?
Published on May 2, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
ISPs and Publishers get the blame for video streaming problems
For Slow Load Times and Rebuffering consumers mostly blamed their ISP and their Wi-Fi, however the difference between these results is a very fine line.