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It’s tl;dr week at Mux! You’re in for a jam-packed week of updates, stories, and examples of how we’re making it easier for developers to get started with video. tl;dr week? Don’t we mean Launch Week?! Kinda, but we’re changing it up. Here’s the tl;dr of what we’ve been up to lately: Dave Kiss and Darius Cepulis kick off the week with our new features that get you started building video quickly: ⬆️ The upload module in the Mux Dashboard got a makeover (or is that called a glow-up now? ✨) — Upload multiple videos at once, easily select your video quality and other video settings, watch the status of your uploads, and more. Darius Cepulis gives you a walk-through of the new upload module in the video below. 🖼️ Mux Player iframe — Perfect when you need to drop a video in a low or no-code application. Darius Cepulis wrote a fantastic blog that details how you can start using the iframe in minutes and how you can use our newest playback page when you need to share a video without embedding it anywhere. Read his blog: https://lnkd.in/g3VWGV-e

We sent one of our sales teammates to React Miami—and he lived to tell the story. Adam Seitzman chronicles about his time as a salesperson at a JavaScript conference: https://lnkd.in/eFvpzm4B Turns out, Henri Helvetica, Jemima Abu, Chance Strickland, and Michelle Bakels were just a few of the individuals that had an impact on Adam's time well spent.

Back in 2015, I gave my first talk at a brand new conference called Demuxed. I talked about the MP4 file format, and dug into manipulating this fancy new fragmented MP4 thing, long before CMAF saw the light of day. At the afterparty someone asked me what I wanted to talk about the next year. I answered honestly with what was at the top of my mind at that moment "The broken economies of streaming video". I wanted to talk about how expensive running a streaming service or video infrastructure company is - all the hidden line items that no-one expects to be a problem until you hit them (yes, I'm talking about you, origin egress fees), and how wildly inconsistent CDN pricing was. This stuff was a badly kept secret at the time, something we'd all talk about in hushed tones in dive bars (RIP Club93), but could never talk about openly. I pitched this talk to my leadership at the time, and got some stern looking faces. Suffice to say, that talk never saw the light of day. Flash forward 10 years, and video still feels too expensive — the industry hasn't changed as much as you'd think. Sure, we've got fancier codecs, hardware's gotten better, and CDN rates have gone down, but those sneaky costs are still lurking everywhere. I still see companies shocked when their first real CDN bill hits after they scale, or scrambling when their storage costs suddenly triple as they onboard users. One of my biggest crusades over my time at Mux has been building a video product that's actually affordable, at both low and high volumes — not just "affordable for enterprise customers" or "affordable if you're already huge", but genuinely accessible for everyone from solo developers to rapidly scaling startups. Every time I see a developer remove video features because of cost concerns or watch a startup founder's eyes widen at their first streaming bill, I know we've still got work to do. The internet is better with video, but only if developers can afford to use it without fear. And that's why we built the new Mux Video Free Plan. Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eDwzT7_q Huge shout out to the huge team at Mux who worked on the Free Plan, especially Daniel Hayes, Michael Mcinerney, Megan Salisbury, Michael Smith, Lamia Chlala, Robert Mach, Darius Cepulis, and Steve Heffernan, you're all amazing 🤩.

$0, free.99, on the house, comped, gratis We have a new free plan, and it’s really frickin good. You get all the power of Mux and can sign up without a credit card. ✅ Upload & store up to 10 on-demand video assets of ANY duration and quality ✅ 100,000 free delivery minutes monthly (1080p) for your viewers ✅ Built-in analytics, courtesy of Mux Data ✅ Customizable player that works everywhere from an iframe embed to an API ✅ Auto-generated captions and MP4 support for accessibility  😉 So much more The Mux Video Free Plan is part of our mission to democratize video technology — making it accessible not just to enterprises, but to every solo developer, startup, and creative team with an idea. Because when more people can build with video, the web becomes more engaging, more human, and more innovative. Learn more in Phil Cluff’s blog: www.mux.com/blog/free-plan

Neon and Mux are throwing a Stripe Sessions pre-meetup on Monday, May 5 at Mux's SF office and you're invited! We'll open doors at 5:00 PM with snacks, drinks, and good vibes as the Stripe crowd rolls into town. You'll hear from Steve Heffernan (Co-Founder at Mux) on what startup founders can learn from Stripe and from Andre Landgraf (DevRel at Neon) on how to handle Stripe subscriptions without losing your mind. Join us and kick off Stripe Sessions the right way. RSVP here: https://lu.ma/atkul21b

🚨 HAPPENING IN AN HOUR: In a live Vercel Community Session, Dave Kiss and Darius Cepulis tackle why video can be tricky on the web and how to implement it effectively in your applications. ⏰ Join at 9 a.m. PST / 12 p.m. EST : https://lnkd.in/egqDnhKX

Your dashboards just got their own sticky notes. 🟨 Introducing Annotations in Mux Data — the easiest way to tag key moments across your dashboards and capture why your metrics moved. ���� Add context directly in the dashboard or via API 🔗 Connect deploys, launches, and incidents to your metrics 👥 Share visibility across teams — no extra docs or threads 📆 Annotate events up to 13 months back or 14 days ahead One of our most-requested features is officially here — and available to all Mux users. Get the full details in Ashley Cutler's blog and start annotating: https://lnkd.in/eDAYc_bx

Integrating video into your Vercel project and have questions? Get them answered at Wednesday's livestream with Dave Kiss and Darius Cepulis.

Fun fact: Several Muxers play ultimate frisbee, and one of them plays on a professional team. 🥏 Yesterday a group of us cheered on Walker Frankenberg as his team (the Oakland Spiders) kicked off the first game of the season with a win. 🥳

🚨 New from Mux Data: our Self-Service Media Plan is here 🚨 Get real-time video QoE data, advanced debugging tools, and scalable insights — no annual commit needed. More powerful than our Pay As You Go plan. Lighter than our Custom plan. ✅ 100-day retention of all standard Engagement and QoE metrics and dimensions ✅ Mux Data Monitoring Dashboard & API for real-time insights ✅ CSV & Streaming Data Exports for deeper analysis ✅ Up to 5 custom dimensions for more customized reporting Read Ashley Cutler's blog:  https://lnkd.in/dMtFbDVA