diff --git a/content_type.go b/content_type.go
index b11a680..0f042d2 100644
--- a/content_type.go
+++ b/content_type.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ const (
 	ContentTypeXML
 	ContentTypeForm
 	ContentTypeEventStream
+	ContentMsgPack
 )
 
 func GetContentType(s string) ContentType {
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@ func GetContentType(s string) ContentType {
 		return ContentTypeForm
 	case "text/event-stream":
 		return ContentTypeEventStream
+	case "application/msgpack":
+		return ContentMsgPack
 	default:
 		return ContentTypeUnknown
 	}
diff --git a/decoder.go b/decoder.go
index c01be83..0418eb0 100644
--- a/decoder.go
+++ b/decoder.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"encoding/xml"
 	"errors"
+	"github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@ func DefaultDecoder(r *http.Request, v interface{}) error {
 		err = DecodeXML(r.Body, v)
 	case ContentTypeForm:
 		err = DecodeForm(r.Body, v)
+	case ContentMsgPack:
+		err = DecodeMsgPack(r.Body, v)
 	default:
 		err = errors.New("render: unable to automatically decode the request content type")
 	}
@@ -54,3 +57,9 @@ func DecodeForm(r io.Reader, v interface{}) error {
 	decoder := form.NewDecoder(r) //nolint:errcheck
 	return decoder.Decode(v)
 }
+
+// DecodeMsgPack decodes a given reader into an interface using the msgpack decoder.
+func DecodeMsgPack(r io.Reader, v interface{}) error {
+	defer io.Copy(io.Discard, r) //nolint:errcheck
+	return msgpack.NewDecoder(r).Decode(v)
+}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index e47a59c..61922f3 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -2,4 +2,7 @@ module github.com/go-chi/render
 
 go 1.16
 
-require github.com/ajg/form v1.5.1
+require (
+	github.com/ajg/form v1.5.1
+	github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.4.1 // indirect
+)
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 866445b..4d3a391 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,2 +1,12 @@
 github.com/ajg/form v1.5.1 h1:t9c7v8JUKu/XxOGBU0yjNpaMloxGEJhUkqFRq0ibGeU=
 github.com/ajg/form v1.5.1/go.mod h1:uL1WgH+h2mgNtvBq0339dVnzXdBETtL2LeUXaIv25UY=
+github.com/davecgh/go-spew v1.1.0/go.mod h1:J7Y8YcW2NihsgmVo/mv3lAwl/skON4iLHjSsI+c5H38=
+github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
+github.com/stretchr/objx v0.1.0/go.mod h1:HFkY916IF+rwdDfMAkV7OtwuqBVzrE8GR6GFx+wExME=
+github.com/stretchr/testify v1.6.1/go.mod h1:6Fq8oRcR53rry900zMqJjRRixrwX3KX962/h/Wwjteg=
+github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.4.1 h1:cQriyiUvjTwOHg8QZaPihLWeRAAVoCpE00IUPn0Bjt8=
+github.com/vmihailenco/msgpack/v5 v5.4.1/go.mod h1:GaZTsDaehaPpQVyxrf5mtQlH+pc21PIudVV/E3rRQok=
+github.com/vmihailenco/tagparser/v2 v2.0.0 h1:y09buUbR+b5aycVFQs/g70pqKVZNBmxwAhO7/IwNM9g=
+github.com/vmihailenco/tagparser/v2 v2.0.0/go.mod h1:Wri+At7QHww0WTrCBeu4J6bNtoV6mEfg5OIWRZA9qds=
+gopkg.in/check.v1 v0.0.0-20161208181325-20d25e280405/go.mod h1:Co6ibVJAznAaIkqp8huTwlJQCZ016jof/cbN4VW5Yz0=
+gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200313102051-9f266ea9e77c/go.mod h1:K4uyk7z7BCEPqu6E+C64Yfv1cQ7kz7rIZviUmN+EgEM=