@mux/ai

We had a very tight timeline

to deliver on a short form

video product on Glassdoor.

We went from product concept

to ideation to designs in

just a few short months.

We wanted to deliver an

offering to our community in

just five months after that,

and Mux enabled us to hit that

timeline and to achieve our

product goals very quickly.

So a few things

stood out with Mux.

Number one, the ease

of the integration.

It truly is a one stop shop.

I think if you look at

the SDKs and the level of

documentation that's there,

it's really top notch.

It made for integrating

video and video players

into our Android and

iOS apps dead simple.

Number two, the

quality of the product.

One of the things that stood

out to us was the adaptive

bitrate streaming that

allows us to serve videos

in a performant way, no

matter how speedy a user's

internet connection is.

And that really makes for a

fantastic user experience.

Number three, the cost.

One of the other options that

we looked at was also AWS.

We discovered with AWS, you

actually have to piece a video

solution together yourself.

Video uploading,

management, streaming,

transcoding, Android and

iOS integrations, and of

course content moderation.

When you look at the total

cost of ownership, AWS is

not necessarily the cheaper

solution because you have

to have teams and people

monitoring those pipelines and

also evolving that solution

as the streaming landscape

changes. Number four, the

fantastic level of support

that we got we had engineers

with us in, in a shared Slack

channel helping us integrate.

You know, really they were

kind of there just for

emotional support because the

documentation was so good.

But when we did encounter

a small problem, they were

right there with us helping

things along the way.

And number five, the trusted

partnerships that Mux has

for things like moderation.

One of the things that I think

differentiates the Glassdoor

community is the quality of

the content and the distinct

lack of toxic content.

And Mux allowed us to

seamlessly integrate with

other trusted vendors in

the moderation space so

that we could maintain a

high quality bar for video

content on our platform.

I think it's one thing

to read about things like

career pivots and burnout

and salary negotiation

and things like that.

But it's a completely

different thing to see

and hear it on video.

And that's really the extra

dimension of authenticity

that short form video gave

us within the community.