When we watch YouTube or stream TV through a Boxee, the assumption is that aside from some buffering, the experience will be fine. But add live content and interactive elements to those video streams, and it gets complicated. A new paper shows us how complicated. Read More »
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Limelight has spent the last few years acquiring pieces and tacking on new value-added services to its legacy CDN business. Adding a content management system like Clickability could make it even easier for its customers to manage and monetize digital media across their web properties. Read More »
The royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton was a very gallant affair, and one that amassed huge global audiences online. Due to a large number of live streams available, viewers from all over were able to tune in live from wherever they were. Read More »
Brightcove is announcing today that it is transitioning to Akamai’s CDN and working with it to roll out new features to clients based on Akamai’s HD network. The move will come as a blow to Limelight, which previously owned the bulk of Brightcove’s video delivery business. Read More »
Limelight Shows Off Adobe’s HTTP Dynamic Streaming; at NAB this week, Limelight and DirecTV provided a joint demo of Adobe’s new HTTP Dynamic Streaming technology, which combines the benefits of Flash streaming with the benefits of HTTP delivery. (Limelight blog) Irdeto Secures Adobe Flash Access 2.0;… Read More »
Content delivery network Edgecast Networks has raised $10 million in a Series C financing round that was led by Menlo Ventures and included existing investor Steamboat Ventures. In addition to the funding, Menlo managing director Pravin Vazirani will join the Edgecast board. The new… Read More »
Hulu Sends Some Traffic To Level 3 and Limelight Networks; video content from Hulu historically came exclusively from Akamai, but lately, the site is also using Level 3 and Limelight Networks for some of its video delivery. (Streaming Media blog) Related: Hulu’s a Towering Success… Read More »
Whatever happened to patience? More than 81 percent of all online video viewers click away if they encounter a clip rebuffering, according to a new study by Tubemogul. The Emeryville-based video distribution and analytics startup took a close look at 192 million video streams… Read More »
Jinni Enters Public Beta; recommendation service lets you search for movies based on your mood. (TechCrunch UK) Anne Frank Video Draws Viewers; only known moving image of the 11-year old diarist seen nearly 1.7 million times since launching last week. (Anne Frank House Channel) (Hat… Read More »
Online video has significantly contributed to the growth of the market for content-delivery networks, two new research reports show, but it’s unclear how much the industry as a whole will benefit from this trend going forward. The worldwide value of CDN services is estimated to reach… Read More »
Remember how last week we talked about white-label video providers clamoring to align themselves with Akamai? Contentinople has the eye-catching story today that a new video platform lead by the founding CEO of Limelight has switched its business almost exclusively to former rival Akamai… Read More »
Limelight Networks today announced it’s acquired dynamic video and audio ad insertion startup Kiptronic. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. This is the CDN’s first-ever acquisition, and effectively brings it into the mobile content distribution and content monetization businesses. An acquisition, in this economic… Read More »
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