Akamai and Depicta Form Relationship to Provide Content Delivery in Sweden and the Nordics

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Suzy Dowsett Thinkconsultancy 01753 - 672 755 suzy@thinkconsultancy.co.uk	--or--	Lesley Morris Akamai Technologies 01344 - 668 - 349 lmorris@akamai.com
Mike Peters Depicta +46 8 503 09 175 mike.peters@depicta.com

Depicta to resell Akamai Internet content delivery services to expand Media Content Management Offering

London and Stockholm, May 29, 2001 - Akamai Technologies, Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading Content Delivery Service Provider (CDSP), today announced that Depicta, a leading provider of Media Content Management Services for eBusinesses, will offer Akamai's global Internet content delivery services to complement its suite of Internet business infrastructure services.

Depicta will resell Akamai's FreeFlow^SM , FreeFlow^SM Streaming, and certain other services, leveraging Akamai's high-performance, global network to enhance the performance and reliability of content delivered to end users. The combination of Depicta's Media Asset Management ASP Services and Akamai's content delivery capabilities will enable Depicta to offer its customers highly reliable infrastructure services that take advantage of the massive scalability, fault-tolerance, and worldwide reach of the Akamai network.

"Depicta is one of the most respected Media Content Management service organisations in Sweden. Working together, we can offer a comprehensive service for businesses in the Swedish and Nordic regions. We believe in teaming with organisations that mirror the Akamai commitment to quality of services and exceptional customer service, and Depicta shares these values," said Ian King, General Manager, Akamai Northern Europe.

Mike Peters, Business Development Director, Depicta AB, said: "We're delighted to be working with Akamai since there's such a strong fit between our traditional services and those of Akamai's. Through Akamai, we can extend our proposition to customers and offer an end-to-end service to build their brand without requiring additional infrastructure investment. Organisations can now rely on us to create and manage high quality content that will be delivered more reliably, whatever the level of demand happens to be."

About Akamai
Akamai Technologies, Inc. is the leading Content Delivery Service Provider, serving thousands of customers worldwide. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 9,700 servers in 56 countries directly connected within more than 650 different telecommunications networks. Akamai Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and has European subsidiaries in London, Paris, and Munich - which also serves as Akamai's EMEA headquarters. Further information is available at www.akamai.com.

About Depicta
Depicta is an end-to-end provider of media content management services. Its customers are among the top 500 Nordic companies, from advertising agencies to top photographers in the fashion and car industry. Depicta aims to provide companies with media content management services that support their brand-building activities and reduce media handling expenses. These services include Depicta Content Creation, Depicta Content Management, Depicta Content Delivery and Depicta Production Supervisor. Depicta is based in Stockholm and Oslo. Further information is available at www.depicta.com.

Akamai Technologies, Inc. Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.