Media and Entertainment Solutions

Prepare, protect, and deliver amazing content to any audience, anywhere

Create, secure, and deliver memorable experiences

Media and entertainment (M&E) companies face relentless pressure to deliver consistent, high-quality content and experiences that attract and retain viewers. They scale live events and streaming channels while managing media workflows and securing content, websites, and applications from attacks. M&E companies trust Akamai with their content delivery, security, and cloud computing needs due to our expertise, scale, and reliability.

Deliver engaging content at scale globally

Run media workflows near audiences

Serve content from Akamai Cloud locally and cost-effectively. Keep egress and CPU costs low.

Secure content and applications

Protect your content from attacks and piracy. Benefit from our technical and industry knowledge.

Deliver media at scale close to viewers

Trust our highly distributed cloud platform for fault-tolerant delivery. Delight audiences regardless of their location.

The State of Enterprise AI in Media and Entertainment

Explore how M&E organizations leverage AI for CX improvement, efficiency, and revenue growth while managing risks and compliance.

“I’ve worked with numerous cloud providers, but Akamai truly stands out for its reliability. Plus, its Kubernetes clusters are the fastest we’ve ever used.”

Manuel Odhe, Founder and CEO, SharePlay Interactive

Customer Stories

MediaCP

The video hosting platform cut costs, expanded reach, and built a modern cloud platform with Akamai’s cloud computing services.

Telegraph Media Group

Respected news organization blocked AI scrapers, secured APIs, and better protected and delivered content with Akamai solutions.

OKAST

Digital media company migrated to Akamai from AWS and scaled FAST channels, cut costs, and gained control.

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Media and Entertainment Use Cases

Deliver content at the edge

Prepare and deliver content at the edge

Ensure that all of your audiences enjoy the best experiences regardless of their location.


Products

Adaptive Media Delivery

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

Akamai Cloud

Compute, storage, networking, database, and container management cloud services

EdgeWorkers

Execute JavaScript functions at the edge to optimize site performance and customize web experiences.

Ion

Deliver an improved and reliable user experience for your website, dynamically and at scale.

Safeguard apps and APIs

Safeguard apps and APIs

Keep your content fully protected and safe from piracy.


Products

App & API Protector

Leading security protection for applications and APIs at the edge.

API Security

Discover, monitor, and audit API activity using real-time analytics to respond to threats and abuse.

Akamai MFA

Mitigate employee account takeover with phish-proof multi-factor authentication based on FIDO2.

Client-Side Protection & Compliance

Assist with your PCI compliance and protect your website against JavaScript attacks.

Prolexic

Protect your infrastructure from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Detect breaches and harden against ransomware by applying granular, software-defined segmentation.

Secure websites & transactions

Secure your website and financial transactions

Prevent website or application attacks and avoid credential abuse on your OTT service.


Products

Bot Manager

Advanced bot management designed to detect and mitigate sophisticated bad bots but allow good bots.

Enterprise Application Access

Mitigate network level access and deliver granular application access based on identity and context.

Brand Protector

Detect and mitigate brand impersonation attacks including phishing and fake websites.

Client-Side Protection & Compliance

Assist with your PCI compliance and protect your website against JavaScript attacks.

Optimize performance

Observe and optimize delivery and performance

Monitor your content continually and use insights to consistently optimize your API performance.


Products

DataStream

Low-latency data feed enabling visibility and ingest into third-party monitoring tools.

API Acceleration

Improve the performance and reliability of your APIs at scale.

Global Traffic Management

Optimize app performance and avoid outages with intelligent load balancing.

Image & Video Manager

Enhance digital experiences with intelligent image and video optimization for every user on any device.

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