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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Latest Data Shows HD Video Adoption Growing, But at a Very Slow Rate	While I've heard some folks say that one of the reasons Akamai (AKAM) is showing signs of their M&E business picking back up is as a result of the adoption of HD quality content, that's not what's driving revenue today. Yes, Akamai and all of the other CDNs are seeing more content owners use HD quality video, but it's not yet happening in large volumes or at mass scale to impact revenue. Based on a recent StreamingMedia.com survey we conducted in September and October, we asked content ow...	December 09, 2009
Video Traffic Grew 35% This Year, Same Rate of Growth as 2009, Flat Year Over Year	The question I got asked most frequently at last month's Streaming Media West show was when I thought the rate of growth for video traffic would once again begin to accelerate. Based on a recent StreamingMedia.com survey we conducted in September and October, of which 812 content owners responded, 53.3% of the respondents said their traffic grew on average of only 35%-40% this year. When compared to the same survey last year, 53.9% of over 1,000 content owners said their traffic grew a total of...	December 08, 2009
Akamai Now Getting Aggressive On CDN Pricing, Seeing Some Positive Results	For the past couple of quarters, I've written many times that Akamai (AKAM) needs to be more aggressive on its CDN pricing or video, so the company can grow revenue, increase the volume of traffic on its network and make it harder on its competition. Many have said Akamai would be crazy to lower its pricing, as it would negatively impact the company's margins. But I've always argued that you make up that decline in profit with more volume on the network, which in time actually increases your mar...	December 07, 2009
Akamai: Commerce, Media Customers Showing Greater Strength	Akamai (AKAM) said its fourth quarter revenue and earnings are looking better as commerce and media customers are seeing “stronger volume growth.” That’s a good sign considering that Akamai, which features applications that deliver Web pages faster via a content delivery network (CDN), has good insight on its customer base. And it looks like e-commerce and media are seeing better-than-expected demand from a year ago. The year-ago quarter is a low bar to hurdle, but it’s s...	December 07, 2009
Brightcove 4 Adds Support For The iPhone, Facebook, Live Video, And More	It’s been about a year since Brightcove released the last upgrade to its professional online video platform with Brightcove 3. On Monday, it’s going to release Brightcove 4, and it’s a massive upgrade. Brightcove 4 now supports a native video player on the iPhone, in Facebook, and live video streaming on the Web. It’s got Twitter integration for sharing videos, faster-loading video players, the ability to switch between Flash streaming and HTTP, adaptive streaming ba...	November 15, 2009
Here’s Some PR For You, CDNetworks	If you want to sell something to TechCrunch, or anyone, the best way of going about it isn’t to call people at their home number, accuse them of dishonesty, and then follow up with an email requesting a clearly unethical trading of services. All those things happened to me in the last five minutes. An account executive from CDNetworks called on my home phone to discuss our content delivery needs. I said we were all set. I was asked if I traded content delivery for PR. I said “yes, w...	November 09, 2009
Mobile CDN Offers First Official iPhone Streaming App	This past weekend, Mobile CDN made a fairly significant move in the mobile world when it streamed footage of the NBA All-Star game live over mobile phones. Why? Mobile CDN launched the first live streaming application approved by Apple and that works over any wireless network Edge, 3G and WiFi phones. Until now, Apple hasn’t officially allowed iPhones to access streaming applications. So how did Mobile CDN break down Apple’s barriers? Mobile CDN approached streaming application, Orb, and...	February 17, 2009
BCE Termination Fee	BCE (BCE) finally reached the drop dead date when the deal was supposed to close but did not. They are now fighting to collect the CDN$1.2 Billion fee from Ontario Teacher, Providence Equity Partners, and Madison Dearborn Equity Partners. The BCE year end is Dec 31 which is just a few weeks away. So the question becomes do they include it as a receivable on the balance sheet as well as record it as extraordinary profit. Will the auditor allow the entry on the year end statements. Will executive...	December 11, 2008
Startups Best Positioned To Weather A Downturn	Now that Congress has failed to bail out Wall Street, the country (and world, to a lesser extent) has begun bracing itself for nuclear winter. The technology sector is no exception, even if the Silicon Valley tends to fancy itself as immune to broader economic turmoil. As Fred Wilson points out, startups fortunate enough to enjoy venture capital will fare the best during these hard times. So we compiled a list of all the technology startups that have raised at least $25 million over the past t...	September 30, 2008
Amazon Gets In On the Content Delivery Business	It was only a matter of time before Amazon would decide to release a Content Delivery Network, and according to the company in an official statement released today, it has done just that. Designed to complement its S3 storage service and EC2 web services, the CDN will be available later this year and will provide users with a high performance method of distributing content to end users. Amazon claims it will have low latency and high data transfer rates when users access the content and it wil...	September 18, 2008