Business
Akamai acquires Edgio’s content delivery business
Akamai has also acquired non-exclusive license rights to Edgio's patent portfolio
Akamai
Media Delivery
Bitmovin announces Akamai collaboration
The partnership aims to help streaming services improve live viewing experiences across a range of use cases including news and sports/eSports
Media Consumption
Euro 2020 scores more streams than the Olympics
UEFA Euro 2020 traffic peaked at 35 Tbps on the Akamai paltform versus a peak of 10 Tbps during the Olympics
Media Consumption
Akamai: Euro 2020 final streaming five-times higher than in 2016
Average peak traffic for all 51 tournament matches was 17.5 Tbps, which Akamai said is more than four times higher than the 4.1 Tbps...
Media Delivery
Akamai: Web traffic hits another all-time high
The company's web traffic has doubled since October 2019
Media Delivery
Akamai: Internet traffic hit all time high in November
Traffic on the Akamai platform reached 181 terabits per second, 50 per cent greater than the peak in 2019
Media Delivery
Synamedia, Akamai join forces to take down the pirates
Synamedia’s solutions can detect and disrupt pirate streams in real time over the Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform and redirect viewers to legitimate services.
Media Delivery
Akamai: Election night streaming up by double compared to 2016
Live news streaming traffic peaked at approx. 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform
Media Delivery
Akamai preparing for record-breaking streaming surge in coming months
Company predicts 50 million people could concurrently streaming a single live event in the coming months, about double the current record.
Media Delivery
Broadcast TV sites saw 630 per cent increase in ‘credential stuffing’ in 2019
Akamai publishes its latest 2020 State of the Internet / Credential Stuffing in the Media Industry report
Media Management
Akamai, Conviva form streaming video experience partnership
Aims to improve streaming video quality for end users
Technology
Atomos enables 5.9K Apple ProRes RAW recording for Panasonic and more
TVBEurope rounds up the top tech stories of the day
Media Management
Primestream enables MAM in Cloud, Verimatrix partners with Akamai and more
TVBEurope rounds up the top tech stories of the day
Technology
Akamai’s global CDN exceeds 100 terabits per second for the first time
Equivalent of downloading 12 million two-hour HD films an hour
TVBEverywhere
Buffering ‘costs streamers $85K in lost revenue’
Buffering only has to happen 1 per cent of the time to have a major impact on revenues
Videos
Technology
Akamai selects Epic Labs for VoD Transcoding
Epic Labs has integrated its products with Akamai NetStorage and Adaptive Media Delivery solutions
Business
Zixi adds John Bishop to board of directors
Bishop is recognised as an early pioneer of video streaming
Business
Akamai appoints new head of EMEA channels and alliances
Hans Nipshagen will be responsible for EMEA channel strategy
Technology
Akamai selects Encoding.com’s transcoding platform
Akamai is retiring its Media Services on Demand transcoding platform and is recommending its customers to transition over to Encoding.com before April 2019
TVBEverywhere
Akamai: World Cup the most-streamed sporting event ever
France won the most-streamed match of the tournament as well as becoming world champions
Technology
Akamai reveals best bitrates for optimal viewing experience
6-8Mbps deemed optimal for connected TVs
Technology
GeoGuard’s VPN/Proxy Detection fully integrated with Akamai
Company's VPN/DNS Proxy detection solution will offer enhanced anti-piracy tools for online streaming services
Business
Virtual Reality Industry Forum launches
The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) has assembled to help ‘push widespread adoption’ of VR. Founding members include Akamai Technologies, ARRIS International, b<>com, Baylor...
Business
Free Akamai webinar: The Promise of the Cloud
In partnership with TVBEurope, Akamai is delivering a series of free, insightful and innovative webinars to the broadcast industry. The final webinar is titled...
Features
Free Akamai webinar: BOCC – Best Practices
In partnership with TVBEurope, Akamai is delivering a series of free, insightful and innovative webinars to the broadcast industry over the coming weeks. The...
Features
Akamai webinar: Enhancing video quality and performance
In partnership with TVBEurope, Akamai is delivering a series of free, insightful and innovative webinars to the broadcast industry over the coming weeks. The...
Videos
Technology
Akamai’s OTT webinar series starts tomorrow
The first of four webinars will be available at 2pm GMT tomorrow via TVBEurope
Features
Akamai webinar series: Analysing the “next generation” of challenges
Four insightful and innovative webinars will be delivered over the coming weeks
Production & Post
Arkena, Akamai form strategic partnership
Arkena has formed a strategic partnership agreement with Akamai, setting their sights on accelerating the deployment of worldwide advanced media services. Part of Akamai’s
News
News Releases
TVBEurope and Akamai partner for webinar
Following the success of the webinar event last week, TVBEurope will host its first multi-lingual video webinar next Tuesday 5 July. ‘Navigating the OTT...
Videos
Analysis
Effectively managing the OTT challenge in today’s market
Whether a company is a broadcaster delivering OTT services, a pure-play OTT provider, or a telco delivering online video for commercial gain, it is...
News
TVBEverywhere
Navigate the OTT landscape with Akamai
Registration is now open for Akamai’s ‘Navigating the OTT 2.0 Landscape’ webinar. Led by Ian Munford, director of product marketing for Akamai’s media services,...
News
TVBEverywhere
Akamai delivers eMedia content
eMedia Network has implemented Akamai Technologies’ Media Delivery Solutions for its OTT/IPTV platform, iON.
News
Business
TVBAwards TVBEverywhere: The finalists
New to this year’s TVBAwards, the TVBEverywhere category pays homage to some of the cutting edge systems being used in programming and content provision...
Business
News Releases
fuboTV teams up with Akamai for global OTT soccer service
fuboTV has selected Akamai Technologies’ Media Delivery Solutions to support its over-the-top (OTT) soccer streaming service
News
IBC
Conference streams are totally dynamic
IBC2015 has five well-designed Themes for conference delegates, each to showcase that the show is not just a technical event, important though technology has...
Business
Akamai releases global State of the Internet report
Akamai Technologies has released its First Quarter, 2015 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform.
News
Production & Post
YLE conducts 360-degree live stream
Finnish national public broadcasting company YLE provided its TV audience with an ‘immersive panoramic experience’ of the country’s Presidential Independence Day reception event with...
TVBEverywhere
Sky Italia ‘turbo charges’ upload capabilities with Akamai and Aspera
Sky Italia has implemented Akamai and Aspera solutions, with the aim of improving and simplifying its workflow.
News
Production & Post
Akamai delivers “monster of challenge” World Cup
Akamai has been supporting high quality video streaming, site performance and in some cases security services to 50 rights holders which have been delivering...