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When Moments Can’t Be Rehearsed, Preparation Is the Only Advantage That Scales
John Agger
When everything is live and unforgiving, preparation is the only advantage. Learn how Fastly and Jerry Rice approach peak performance under pressure.
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Why the Future of Streaming Lives at the Edge
John Agger, Ashley Hurwitz
The future of streaming lives at the edge. Explore how Fastly reduces latency, boosts performance, and unlocks sustainable content delivery for media companies.
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Invisible Intruders – How Bots Sabotage Streaming Services
Alina Lehtinen-Vela
Learn how bots disrupt streaming services, causing outages and fraud, and what can be done to protect digital content and improve user experience.
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Tackling Real-Time Ad Personalization for Live Streaming at the Edge
Alina Lehtinen-Vela
Discover how Fastly helped a major North American broadcaster overlay customized ads on live streams—without adding latency.
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Streaming’s Multibillion-Dollar Problem: The War on Piracy and Password Sharing
Alina Lehtinen-Vela
From subscription fatigue to release gaps, we break down the biggest challenges and smart solutions streaming platforms are adopting to fight back.
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Key Trends in Edge Computing and AI Adoption: A Conversation with Google Cloud
Chris Buckley
Learn about the latest trends in edge computing, including insights from industry experts on how AI and modern CDNs are reshaping content delivery and user interaction.
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Super Bowl 2025: How Social Media Reacted in Real Time
John Agger
Celebrate the success of Super Bowl LIX, the most-watched in history with 128 million viewers. Uncover the intriguing social media dynamics from this iconic event.
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Large File Delivery Improved with Streaming Miss Support | Fastly
Simon Wistow
Today, we’re excited to announce two related features that lower bandwidth costs and reduce origin load for Fastly customers, resulting in faster downloads for their users: Streaming Miss and Large File Support.
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Introducing MPEG-DASH support: enhancing Video on Demand
Ashok Lalwani
We’re proud to announce support for MPEG-DASH streaming format packaging. This feature lets you simplify the delivery of video content to your end users and reduce the operational costs associated with providing an exceptional user experience.
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Viewer Engagement Insights in Video Delivery
Ashok Lalwani
We’re pleased to announce that we now send additional metrics from our On-the-fly Packaging (OTFP) service to provide more granular visibility into the packaging and delivery process. You can stream Video Delivery Insights as logs from your Fastly service to the endpoint of your choice, giving you the flexibility to analyze and modify your settings on the fly.
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Common Encryption & MPEG-DASH Packaging Support
Ashok Lalwani, Marcus Sarmento
We’re excited to announce we’re enhancing our MPEG-DASH packaging support to include Common Encryption and demuxing audio and video representations, two features that will better allow you to comply with most MPEG-DASH video players.
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Multi-DRM & Content Preconditioning for OTT Providers | Fastly
Ashok Lalwani, Marcus Sarmento
In an ongoing effort to help you provide the best streaming experiences for your end users, we’re excited to announce two new features to our OTFP service. Multi-DRM support and content preconditioning enable over the top (OTT) video service providers to protect and efficiently monetize premium video content.
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Fastly streams logs to Kafka & Elasticsearch | Fastly
Dom Fee
Fastly expands real-time logging support to include six additional endpoints, including Apache Kafka and Elasticsearch.
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Seven tips to improve live streaming
John Agger
At Fastly, we’ve helped some of the world’s leading broadcasters and content owners deliver live events that scale from local news to the very largest sporting events. And we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. Check out our seven tips for live streaming success.
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Is multi-CDN delivery the solution to your QoE goals?
Lee Chen
Multi-CDN delivery helps deliver a higher quality of experience and is growing in popularity. Let’s explore why and what key factors you should keep in mind in evaluating if it’s the right strategy for your quality of experience goals.
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How Network Automation Helps Fastly Live Streaming
Ryan Landry
How network automation, a small team of engineers, and key learnings from past extreme high-traffic moments allow us to support delivery performance at scale.
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Fastly Introduces Two Solutions for Quality | Fastly
Dima Kumets
With two new solutions, Fastly is empowering video engineers to address the growing streaming-at-scale challenge head on with enhancements to its video-on-demand and live event services capabilities, helping them deliver quality user experiences no matter what their end users are streaming.
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Fastly's Live Event Services power Lexus Melbourne Cup on 10 Play | Fastly
David Belson, Sianne Chen
Fastly Live Event Services helped power the Lexus Melbourne Cup, a 3-minute horse race that attracts millions of viewers across Australia. This year, the event saw more people live streaming than ever before and went off without a hitch.
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When do you need low-latency HTTP live streaming?
John Agger
Low-latency live streaming is more relevant than ever. New user experiences, like quizzes and real-time voting, built around content and entertainment must be available with little to no delay. In this post, we look at the business cases that warrant low-latency HTTP live streaming.
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Live-Streaming Event Checklist
Dima Kumets
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 your live-streaming event.
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