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- Akamai Selected to Broadcast 2010 Winter Olympics for NBC
- Dan Rayburn submits: Based on numerous sources I have spoken to, I can now confirm that Akamai AKAM has been selected to stream the 2010 Winter Olympics for the NBC Olympics website. While Akamai and Microsoft MSFT did not provide any comments for this story, Akamai is already...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Akamai, Limelight to Deploy P2P for Higher Quality, Not Cost Savings
- Dan Rayburn submits: While there's been a lot of hype about peer-assisted technology [P2P] over the past few years, in reality, the technology has gotten very little adoption when it comes to being used to distribute video, let alone streaming. Today, most of the content being delivered via P2P...
- External links 2009-07-01
- Akamai Launches iPhone Video Streaming and Showcase Portal
- Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday, Akamai AKAM "officially" announced support for variable bit rate streaming of live and on-demand video content for the iPhone and iPod touch and has launched a new showcase site at iphone.akamai.com. The site which has been live for about a month, showcases content from about...
- External links 2009-07-03
- Thomson Reuters Acquisition of Webcasting Platform Provider Streamlogics
- Dan Rayburn submits: In a deal that had been in the works for some time, it was announced yesterday that effective last week, Thomson Reuters TRI has acquired Canada based Streamlogics. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and I don't have any details on the valuation but will...
- External links 2009-07-06
- YouTube's Biz Blog Goes on Offensive, Says Industry Comments Are 'Myths'
- Dan Rayburn submits: While many, including me, have been asking for some time now when YouTube will show a profit and what their long-term business plan is, today, YouTube went on the offensive on their Biz Blog to "debunk the top five myths about YouTube". While one might...
- External links 2009-07-20
- Examining Alcatel-Lucent's Acquisition of Velocix
- Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday morning, Alcatel-Lucent ALU announced it has acquired CDN technology provider Velocix. As I reported two months ago, Velocix had been in talks with various companies about being acquired and the deal with Alcatel-Lucent closed five days ago. Terms of the deal were not announced...
- External links 2009-07-28
- Akamai: Even with CDN Pricing Problems, Still Not Doing Enough to Spur Growth
- Dan Rayburn submits: On Wednesday's earnings call, Akamai AKAM once again said it was seeing more pricing pressure in the market and stated that the company is being more aggressive on its CDN pricing. While this may sound like Akamai is finally waking up to the reality of what's...
- External links 2009-07-30
- We Should Care About YouTube's Core Business, Not Its Market Share
- Dan Rayburn submits: With all the back and forth on the blogs this week from those trying to predict exactly how much money YouTube is losing, personally, I think many are still missing the bigger picture when it comes to YouTube and how we value companies in this space....
- External links 2009-06-19
- Google's Adsense for Video Forces Out Small Publishers, Violates IAB Guidelines
- Dan Rayburn submits: While it's unknown how much traction Google GOOG is getting with its Video Adsense platform, multiple publishers have reached out to me over the past few months to talk about how Google is trying to force publishers into presentation requirements that they say conflicts with content...
- External links 2009-06-17
- Level 3 Is Closing CDN Deals
- Dan Rayburn submits: For some time now I have been writing that Level 3 LVLT is doing a good job in the CDN market closing deals and ramping up revenue, doing almost $50M last year for all CDN services. Various people always ask me why they don't see many...
- External links 2009-04-21
- What Size is the Online Video Advertising Market? Depends Who You Ask
- Dan Rayburn submits: If you're interested in getting a good sense on the size of the online video advertising market, you'd probably just look at one of the many analyst reports that give numbers on the growth in the industry. The problem is that looking at these reports gives...
- External links 2009-04-22
- With Patent Ruling in Its Favor, Limelight in No Rush to Be Acquired
- Dan Rayburn submits: Now that Limelight LLNW has prevailed in their patent lawsuit with Akamai AKAM, copy of ruling here many would think this now clears the way for Limelight to be immediately acquired by one of the major telcos. While I know of at least two telcos who...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Level 3 Restructures, Some Execs from CDN Group Leaving Company
- Dan Rayburn submits: Last week Level 3 LVLT announced that it was making strategic changes to the company, including eliminating approximately 150 positions and realigning its customer facing groups in North America. Today, most of those changes were communicated internally and some of these changes will directly affect the...
- External links 2009-05-04
- Level 3's New CDN Strategy: Will Integration Make or Break the Service?
- Dan Rayburn submits: In the nearly two years since Level 3 LVLT first got into the CDN business, the company has managed to accomplish a lot with its CDN offering in a very short period of time. From both a revenue perspective and from a product feature set, Level...
- External links 2009-05-06
- Microsoft XBox 360: 1080p Streaming Will Require 8-10 Mbps Connection for Full Quality
- Dan Rayburn submits: Last week at E3, Microsoft MSFT announced that later in the fall, 1080p streaming will come to the Xbox 360 using Zune video technology. While full details of the technology and how it works are not ready to be released by Microsoft, the company did...
- External links 2009-06-08
- Level 3 Launches New CDN Focused Website
- Dan Rayburn submits: For the past few months, Level 3 LVLT has been working on building a brand new video based website dedicated to showcasing its content delivery offering in the market. Yesterday, the site Level3Delivers.com went live with nearly 75 video clips that do a really great job...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Cisco Claims Video Traffic Is Growing, But Where's the Business Going to Come From?
- Dan Rayburn submits: This week, Cisco CSCO released its second annual visual networking index which predicts that by 2013, all forms of video will account for almost 90% of the total consumer traffic on the Internet. While that sounds like a big percentage, I'd like to know how Cisco...
- External links 2009-06-11
- Limelight and Brightcove Expected to Announce Deal Shortly
- Dan Rayburn submits: Over the past few months, I've been hearing more talk about Brightcove teaming up with Limelight LLNW to enable Limelight to move up the stack and offer more solutions in the video ecosystem. While neither company would comment on the rumor, (Updated: Brightcove says the agreement...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Google/ ON2 Deal: Debunking Myths, Questioning VP8's Quality
- Dan Rayburn submits: Following up on my earlier post entitled "Google's Acquisition Of On2 Not A Big Deal, Here's Why", here are some more thoughts on the subject. While clearly no one, including me, truly knows what Google GOOG plans to do with On2 ONT, a lot of potential...
- External links 2009-08-05
- Google's Acquisition of ON2 Technologies Is No Big Deal, Here's Why
- Dan Rayburn submits: Yesterday morning, Google GOOG announced it would acquire On2 Technologies ONT for $106.5M. While the deal is not expected to close until sometime in the fourth quarter, many writing about this are already declaring that Google will now disrupt the online video industry by speculating that...
- External links 2009-08-05
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