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Not to judge the content quality but I'm curious about the motivation to build this website. Why? Because in the recent days we were discussing the poor quality Google search results and one argument is that the results are poor because the quality of the content has degraded due to the motivations of the content creators, i.e. optimising everything for SEO and views, likes. etc. with guidance of analytics.

So how this works? Is the creator of the website doing SEO here? Will this be sold later? Is it a project for a portfolio? Why are we getting this good quality content? Will it be surfaced by Google?

Not that I suspect anything nefarious, just curious about how original content(beyond commentary on social media) is made these days. What made that content possible? Why the creator(s) spent time to create graphics and text and payed for a domain name and probably hosting?

We actually built How Video Works as a side project at Mux [1] (inspired by How DNS Works [2]) - there's a note about it at the top of the page. We have contributions from our own team as well as others in the industry.

Our main motivation is to try to educate on the complexities and intracies of streaming video. Despite streaming video representing 80+% of the internet, it's all underpinned by a fairly small community of engineers, which we're eager to help grow through tools like this, and the Demuxed community [3].

Edit: I should also mention that Leandro was kind enough to adapt a this content from his amazing Digital Video Introduction [4]

[1] https://mux.com/ [2] https://howdns.works/ [3] https://2021.demuxed.com/ [4] https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction

I've been looking for something educational and introductory about like this for a while. Appreciate you folks at Mux putting this together.

Cool. So how do you measure success for this project? How would your analytics dashboard look like?

Well, he does link to his personal blog, which contains a link to his LinkedIn. His motivation might be personal marketing, job hunting.

Or, he just likes to share knowledge for free, some people still find joy in that, fortunately.

Then there's that cliche of how you learn more (or cementing your knowledge) by teaching. Sometimes that's all the motivation I need.

Uh, if you read a bit about Leandro, you'll learn that he's a senior engineer at Grupo Globo in Brazil. I'll leave it to you to discover more about Globo.

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