Media Delivery
Preparing the Edge for a Big Year in Live Streaming
Next year is shaping up to be a big one for live streaming. Typically characteristic of even years, when many major international sporting events take place, 2021 looks like it could defy ...
What’s New in Edge Delivery
Welcome to day two of the Akamai Platform Update! Today, we're focusing on Akamai's edge delivery products as well as other complimentary products that help drive great digital experiences. The last several ...
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 to ...
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 ...
Making the Edge Come Alive
In April 2019, Netflix viewers streamed 164 million hours of on-demand content per day. Fast forward a year. In April 2020, Twitch streamed 55 million hours per day. The vast majority of ...
CMAF… This is the Way
The debate is over. Common Media Application Format (CMAF) has delivered on its promise: one package to serve them all. Two of the highest profile direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming service launches recently made ...
Metrics That Matter: Continuous Performance Optimization
To attract and retain customers, you must offer an exceptional digital experience. In an increasingly competitive business climate, organizations are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged online. The cost of ...
Tackling Video Piracy Head-On
We are clearly in a "new" golden age of TV. Audiences around the world have never had so many viewing options available. This has led to a creative surge in new groundbreaking ...
Addressing the Video Quality and Performance Measurement Gap with Quality of Performance (QoP) Metrics
Digital video viewership is on an aggressive growth course. Globally, consumers will spend 84 minutes a day watching online video in 2020, up 25% from 2018[i], and digital video viewership will increase ...
Analyzing the Effects of COVID-19 on mPulse Traffic
The events surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, and in particular various social-distancing measures (quarantine, shelter in place, etc.), have had an impact on people's lives and routines across the world. As internet usage ...
