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April 13
Here are three big media & entertainment industry developments to follow at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2023.
February 13
2023 marks the 11th year of Fastly’s involvement in the Super Bowl. Back in 2013, we secured dedicated bandwidth to online businesses advertising throughout the game. However, since 201…
February 9
We care deeply about all things open source and standards, and we’re excited to see how the Fediverse grows in the coming months. Today, we're explaining how it works and how we support it.
January 9
Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.
December 5, 2022
When content delivery networks (CDNs) garner coverage in the media, it's almost always because of an outage. Yet, outages are not a major reason to move to adopt multiple CDNs.
October 21, 2022
Following years of growth, IP broadcasting—aka "streaming"—has become the largest content channel, surpassing both cable and broadcast accounting in July and reaching 35% of viewers in…
July 26, 2022
Latency — the lag between when the packet leaves the streaming source and when it arrives at the consumer’s device — takes many forms, with the most common being lag, dropped frames…
July 19, 2022
There are many more well-documented reasons to make a CDN part of your distribution. In this blog post we examine some lesser-known rationales to help you scale and improve your business.
December 20, 2021
By bringing your content closer to the reader, you bypass the conventional cost and rules associated with server space and infrastructure maintenance, and you gain some additional benefits…
November 29, 2021
The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here…
July 21, 2021
The Fastly Games compare countries in four data-driven events based on aggregated network traffic: IPv6 adoption, HTTP versions, operating system (OS) versions, and browser versions.
January 8, 2021
With high quality-of-experience expectations around live-streaming events, no content owner can afford not to have the right plan in place. Here are the crucial steps to take when planning…