GLG News by Media Experts in GLG Member Programs

I've been taking a look at some of the preliminary data that we have been collecting from our CDN survey and we've already got some great data points. While I expect a few thousand respondents over the course of a month, after a few days we already have over five hundred customers who have filled it...

In October of last year, Level 3 announced that it would offer their content delivery services for video for the same price that it was charging for transit. Many in the industry incorrectly saw this as Level 3 saying they were undercutting other CDNs in the market and entering the industry as the low-cost...

About two weeks ago, Akamai invited me to spend the day with them in Cambridge to allow me to get an better insight into their business and give me the opportunity to ask management and others more about the market, pricing, application delivery and a host of various other topics. They nicely gave me...

I've blogged before about how most CDNs don't give out data points in the market or to customers for them to try and fairly compare one CDN to another. It's impossible to measure performance, capacity and many other aspects of a content delivery service offering from one provider to another. I got an...

While many seem to think I am crazy for thinking anyone would acquire Limelight, it would make sense for a company like Level 3. Yes, we all know Level 3 has had some problems with the integration of all the acquisitions it has made as of late. But putting that one hurdle aside, there are many reasons...

The StreamingMedia.com survey on CDN pricing is nearing its end and to date we've had 1,041 respondents. We're starting to compile all the raw data for the final report and will be giving away the iPhone this week.

I talk to a lot of content owners large and small and no matter what subject we are discussing, I always ask them for their predictions on their traffic growth for 2008. While many of them share their numbers with me but don't allow me to make them public, the vast majority of content owners are telling...

Insight Research is forcasting that streaming content will generate almost $70 billion in the U.S. by 2013. I don't know how they come up with that number as I have not seen the full report, but $70 billion? They say the revenue prediction comes from audio and video files transmitted over the Internet,...

This past Monday, Oprah webcast her second class online and peaked at 200,000 simultaneous viewers. While that was down from the 500,000 simultaneous viewers she had for her first class, it's to be expected and is not any indication of failure.

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