Media Delivery

What’s Next for Media Companies in 2020?

Over the past few months, we've all experienced changes -- in how we work, how we parent, and how we…

8 months ago

Ensuring Business Continuity During Peak Times: 6 Recommendations to Optimize Streaming and Download Bandwidth Usage

A sudden and dramatic surge in internet traffic, much of which is driven by video streaming and game and software…

8 months ago

March 2020 – What’s New in Delivery, Services and Support

Welcome to Day 3 of Akamai's March 2020 Release. Before we dive into today's new and exciting announcements, just a…

9 months ago

Manage Origin Offload and Egress Fees for Live and On-Demand

Origin offload has received more attention in the past few years as more customers have moved their origins to the…

9 months ago

Taking Content Protection to the Edge

To protect our industry, we need to protect our content. That's been an ongoing theme in conversations with Akamai's broadcast…

9 months ago

Getting Insights into the Delivery Path of Media with Breadcrumbs

Problem Definition Media streaming typically involves three main components: a player, the origin, and a CDN. Typically, the content provider…

9 months ago

March 2020 – Professional Services and the Media Industry

In today's ever-shifting market, we recognize that you need to be constantly adapting, and Akamai provides a way to enhance…

10 months ago

Maintain Your Streaming Posture During Failures With Origin Failover

Maintaining a high-quality playback experience for users is extremely critical whether it is for on-demand content or for large-scale live…

11 months ago

Akamai Improves Global Delivery Performance

As part of Akamai's ongoing investments in improving delivery performance, last month we completed the worldwide deployment of the Bottleneck…

1 year ago

Enhancing video streaming quality for ExoPlayer – Part 2: ExoPlayer’s Buffering Strategy, how to lower startup time, and how to lower rebuffering for video on-demand

Co-Author: Mark Greve, Engineering Manager at Akamai. Part of the Media Client Team The first part of this blog series…

1 year ago