Video Articles

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    Building Microsoft-powered native video meetings on LinkedIn

    August 9, 2021

    Co-authors: Crystal Hsieh, Kyle Huynh, Sameera Padhye, Kalyan Punukollu, Federico Hlawaczek, Pavan Mellamputi, and Christian Byza As the world has increasingly embraced virtual connections over the past year, video communication has become essential to professional conversations. With over 744 million members on LinkedIn, we want to make professional...

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    Feature Highlight: Scaling Autoplay Videos for Hundreds of Millions

    March 5, 2019

    On the video team, we’re always looking for ways to improve our members’ experience with video. In late 2016, LinkedIn’s video feature was still young and our autoplay feature remained in the planning phases. Two years have since passed, and while autoplay has become a key component of the LinkedIn video experience, we’re still working on perfecting this feature...

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    How LinkedIn Uses Data to Improve Video Performance

    January 14, 2019

    At LinkedIn, we use data to improve our members’ experiences while using our site. On the video team, we value metrics that yield insight on how long our videos take to load, why certain videos draw more attention than others, and how our members tend to interact with videos across web, iOS, and Android. In short, the various data points collected during video...

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    Creating Video Sharing on LinkedIn

    August 23, 2017

    When we set out to build the new native video experience, we knew several things needed to occur in order to ensure a successful...

  • Building a Native Video Player Library for Android

    August 2, 2016

    At LinkedIn, we recognize that video has become a popular medium for people to communicate and share information. We recently launched...

  • Tech Talk Video: Prof. John Ousterhout on RAMCloud

    October 25, 2011

    A couple weeks ago, Professor John Ousterhout visited LinkedIn to give a tech talk called "RAMCloud: Scalable High-Performance Storage...