Adaptive Media Delivery

Deliver consistent, high-quality online video securely at massive scale.

Unmatched Scale. Reliable Delivery. Robust Content Protection.

Adaptive Media Delivery delivers instant, uninterrupted access to your video content on any device, at the performance level that global audiences demand. It ensures a consistent, high-quality viewing experience across all network types, and includes robust security capabilities designed to prevent piracy, stop unauthorized access to content, and protect your revenue streams. With the ability to scale rapidly for large audiences, you can be assured your media — whether live streaming, linear, simulcast, or on demand — is delivered with the highest reliability and performance at scale available.

How Adaptive Media Delivery Works

Store

Store

Utilize your origin or move to Akamai Connected Cloud block storage for hyperlocal access, high reliability, and scale.

Request

Request

End-user requests are routed to the nearest edge server, where optional authentication or access rules can be applied.

Deliver

Deliver

Akamai’s fast, secure, highly reliable network optimizes the first, middle, and last mile, offering the best possible quality.

Experience

Experience

Users get an exceptional viewing experience that has been optimized for their device and connectivity anywhere.

Streaming amazing video from the most trusted edge network

Keep your viewers engaged with pristine video

Optimize video playback quality for adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming.

Rapidly scale to meet online audience demand

Serve massive global audiences — planned or unexpected — without fail.

Maintain superior reach and reliability

Rely on the most widely distributed edge platform for service predictability.

Features

  • Ensure a 100% availability SLA for consistent content access, aligning your brand with service predictability
  • Enhance your audience’s video playback quality with performance optimizations at the edge
  • Protect content with encryption, watermarking, access revocation, and enhanced proxy detection

  • Intelligently cache content close to viewers, offloading traffic from origin infrastructure
  • Enable development teams to take advantage of serverless compute capabilities at the edge
  • Gain insights into key performance indicators, uncovering useful trends and engagement levels


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Products that work well with Adaptive Media Delivery

CloudWrapper

Save on costs and improve origin offload with a private cache footprint.

Media Services Live

Deliver a broadcast-quality experience to live-streaming viewers.

NetStorage

Store and protect content with the most globally distributed cloud storage.

When we look at Akamai, we look at an extension of our team, and how do we deliver bits to end users with the highest quality and the lowest rebuffering, and Akamai has always proven to deliver time and time again. It’s been a fantastic relationship.

Eric Black, CTO

Adaptive Media Delivery Use Cases

Learn how Adaptive Media Delivery can help you address common business problems and deliver high-quality media to your users, at scale.

Meet global demand with high-quality streaming

Meet global demand with high-quality streaming

Enables a multitude of linear streaming platforms to satisfy worldwide consumer needs, providing top-notch content to audiences of different scales and from various locations through a diverse range of devices and video formats.

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Free Trial: Adaptive Media Delivery

Your competitive edge starts now.

What difference can the world’s largest edge platform make for you? Take Adaptive Media Delivery for a free 30-day test run and find out.

Set up your 30-day free trial:

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  3. Pass Akamai’s validation and vetting process
  4. Receive login instructions
  5. Log in and set up your instance of Adaptive Media Delivery

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