Optimize Video Streaming Performance to Reduce Viewer Churn

Why Improve Viewer Experience? Why Now?
As online video viewership continues its march to digital mediums and platforms, viewer expectation around the quality of experience is also maturing. Increased video streaming choices and the low cost of switchi… Continue reading Optimize Video Streaming Performance to Reduce Viewer Churn

Metrics That Matter: Measuring Streaming Performance

The COVID-19 health crisis created a dramatic shift in our lifestyles. With work, school, and entertainment taking place in home environments now, it’s no surprise that screen time is up. Nielsen reports that not only did overall media consumption jump significantly in the first quarter of 2020, the share of video streaming in total time spent online rose from 19% in fourth-quarter 2019 to 25% in second-quarter 2020. Never has there been more pressure to deliver high-quality streaming experiences. Continue reading Metrics That Matter: Measuring Streaming Performance

What’s Next for Edge Delivery

Access to media through the internet is a huge part of how so many in the world are entertained, informed, and even educated nowadays. And 2020 has shined an even greater light on that fact as many around the world have needed to adjust to life during a pandemic. At Akamai, we saw traffic delivered from our network jump 30% in March — essentially creating growth that we expect to see over the course of over many months in a matter of weeks. Continue reading What’s Next for Edge Delivery

Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services

For more than 20 years, Akamai’s customers have trusted our global edge platform to deliver their content, secure their web applications, and accelerate end-user experiences. As the basis for our mapping functions, Akamai DNS has always been essential … Continue reading Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services

Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services

For more than 20 years, Akamai’s customers have trusted our global edge platform to deliver their content, secure their web applications, and accelerate end-user experiences. As the basis for our mapping functions, Akamai DNS has always been essential to the reliability and performance of our platform and our services, and our popular authoritative DNS services — Edge DNS and Global Traffic Management (GTM) — are a direct result of the significant investments made by Akamai in our DNS infrastructure. Continue reading Akamai Drives New Standards and Enhances Authoritative DNS and Load Balancing Services

Media Services Live Features Upgrades to Support Modern-Day Live-Streaming Needs

Media Services Live (MSL) is Akamai’s flagship solution for preparing live streams to provide broadcast-grade streaming quality for our live-streaming customers. MSL provides purpose-built key capabilities with liveOrigin, including ingest acceleration… Continue reading Media Services Live Features Upgrades to Support Modern-Day Live-Streaming Needs

Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives to Support Your Cloud Journey

61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year.
93% have a multi-cloud strategy.1
This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and your costs.
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