Akamai Serves Three Millionth Video Upload For VideoEgg Platform

Akamai Serves Three Millionth Video Upload For VideoEgg Platform

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online, today announced that VideoEgg, Inc. has uploaded more than three million video files across the Akamai EdgePlatform®. VideoEgg is the leading video solution for online communities, supported by the largest video ad network.

VideoEgg leverages Akamai’s unique capabilities for delivering social media content. As a result, VideoEgg can support its rapidly growing customer base with an ad insertion solution and fast user upload of millions of files. With Akamai’s platform, VideoEgg offers its global users 90 percent faster upload times to improve the user experience while saving on bandwidth. VideoEgg’s technology enables users of social networking sites and online communities such as AOL, Bebo, hi5, Piczo, myYearbook, Dogster and Tagged to post video and images from virtually any device with industry-leading speed and ease.

Akamai also enables VideoEgg to easily add new partner sites while introducing additional ways to monetize digital assets on behalf of these publishers through the largest ad network for social media sites, the Eggnetwork. Global performance and scalability is critical as many VideoEgg customers have large, international user bases and need to support thousands of user uploads and downloads each day.

“To successfully serve more than 10 million uniques per month and between 15 and 20 million video streams each day, we depend on Akamai’s scalability to handle the significant amount of user-generated content that may be uploaded through our site at any given time,” said Matt Sanchez, co-founder and CEO of VideoEgg, Inc. “Akamai provides us with top-of-the-line solutions to download and view content so that we don’t have to provision hardware to handle large content footprints or unexpected traffic spikes. Akamai’s platform handles our needs flawlessly.”

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