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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 December 22, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

How LyveCom uses Mux to build the best-quality e-commerce video experience

Asiya Gorelik
By Asiya Gorelik • 2 min read • Customers

Video is essential for almost every industry. It’s been proven over and over again to help businesses engage with their audiences and drive growth. Our friends at LyveCom are a great example of what i...

Published on December 21, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

Program, schedule, and stream high-quality live video with Prepr CMS; powered by Mux

John Reigart
Dana Cheragwandi
By John and Dana • 5 min read • Partnerships

With this month’s release of Mux Partner Prepr's Live Stream, you can now easily set up, program, and stream high-quality live video to consumers of your multichannel apps and websites.

2022 Mux round-up!

Published on December 20, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

2022 retro: what we shipped and what’s next

Jon Dahl
By Jon Dahl • 5 min read • Company & Product

At our first-ever Mux company conference in May (shout out to the team behind The Mux Informational), I shared our long-term roadmap and vision. TL;DR: We exist to democratize video, which is such a f...

Published on December 5, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

If you can read this, your browser captions are broken

Gary Katsevman
By Gary Katsevman • 12 min read • Engineering

I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...

A screenshot of a real-time video call with many participants

Published on December 1, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

Developing real-time video without all the meetings

Bobby Peck
By Bobby Peck • 6 min read • Engineering

In this post, you'll discover ways that you can simulate a video call with many participants–without having to invite many participants at all!

Published on November 11, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

Partnerships anniversary: a look back

John Reigart
Eric Elia
Julia Garrahan
By John, Eric, and Julia • 16 min read • Partnerships

It’s been exactly a year since we launched the Mux Partner Program. As we celebrate this anniversary, we want to take a look back at the impact this team and our ecosystem have had, both for Mux and fo...

An illustration of a robot standing amongst a forest of tall trees. The robot looks lost and confused. Don't worry, robot. We're here to help you.

Published on November 4, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

Finding your way in the Jamstack forest

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Engineering

At the risk of sounding like an old man, I can barely keep up with the JavaScript landscape. Between server components, islands architecture, incremental static regeneration, code optimization, and the...

A browser showing Mux Player loading

Published on November 1, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

How we made Mux Player’s loading feel great

Darius Cepulis
By Darius Cepulis • 6 min read • Engineering

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 (almost 4 years ago)

Manage captions and get production-ready Mux Player code in the latest update to the Mux Contentful app

John Reigart
Erik Peña
By John and Erik • 5 min read • Partnerships

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...

A product shot of black boots walking in the snow, with the text "New Arrival: Step toward adventure" and an "Explore" button

Published on October 26, 2022 (almost 4 years ago)

The modern shopping stack: how Commerce-UI marries video and ecommerce to drive results

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia • 4 min read • Partnerships

See how Aether brought their beautiful, cutting-edge storefront to life through Commerce-UI, alongside Mux partners Sanity, Shopify, and more.