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Akamai and Public Interactive Alliance Creates Success for Public Broadcasting's Move to the Internet
Public Interactive offers both public radio and public television stations a cost-effective range of private labeled, station-branded, Web-based services for a station's online/on-air community. Consistently ranked among the top five Arbitron® listings of audio network aggregators, Public Interactive began offering Akamai's streaming services to its network of station affiliates in April 2001. The Akamai and Public Interactive alliance combines Public Interactive's application solutions and Akamai's streaming media and audience measurement services for the delivery of live and on-demand audio and video public broadcasting programs. Public Interactive will expand its usage of Akamai's streaming services while supporting a rapidly growing base of both Internet radio listeners and an emerging online video base as well.
"Public radio and public television have a focus on service for their listeners, viewers, and members. The Internet clearly provides an opportunity to not only serve their existing audiences in new and exciting ways, but it also allows for the development of critical new listeners and viewers," said Gina Maniscalco, CEO, Public Interactive.
Since its formation, the relationship between the two companies has yielded more than 50 customers in the public broadcasting sector, including several of the nation's top radio and television stations such as Boston's own powerhouse stations, WBUR and WGBH; WNYC in New York City, the country's largest public radio station; and KERA, a joint radio/television station in Dallas. By taking advantage of Akamai's massively distributed global platform, public broadcasting stations are able to effectively distribute their programming across the Internet with unmatched performance, scalability, and reliability. In the aggregate, Public Broadcasting's affiliate stations now stream nearly 10 terabytes each month, representing a total of more than 1,000,000 listening hours.
"Akamai and Public Interactive are the perfect partners for WGBH in creating a compelling Web presence with an efficient and scalable Internet infrastructure, effectively enabling us to bridge the gap between listeners and producers in public radio," said Bob Lyons, director of WGBH Online, WGBH Boston. "The combined offering has helped WGBH to adopt the Internet as an effective medium for reaching broader audiences."
"The use of streaming media by the public broadcasting sector can greatly enhance the quality of online interaction between the viewer and the producer," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "The large number of clients that Akamai and Public Interactive have acquired confirms that the Internet has become a necessary medium to the on-going success of public broadcasting."
"Akamai is without question an organization focused not only on leading-edge technologies and cost-effective service delivery, but enhanced customer service as well. This has been critical to our public broadcasting affiliates and provides the foundation for our expanding relationship," Maniscalco continued.
About Public Interactive
Public Interactive, Inc. is an integrated application service provider (ASP) of online collaborative tools, technologies, and content/commerce infrastructure for public broadcasting stations nationwide. Since June 1999, Public Interactive has provided award-winning content and advanced technologies to public radio and television stations in almost 300 markets across the country. Public Interactive provides innovative, interactive content initiatives to public radio and television stations, including Public NewsRoomTM, Public ArtsTM, , Public EventsTM, and Personal Public RadioTM. The company also creates and manages the award-winning Car Talk website, CARTALK at CARS.COM.
The company was created in partnership with Public Radio International (PRI) and 15 leading public broadcasting organizations including: WNYC-AM/FM, New York; WXPN-FM, Philadelphia; KERA-FM/TV; Dallas; WBUR-AM/FM, Boston; WGBH-FM/TV, Boston; WETA-FM/TV Washington; KPLU-FM, Seattle/Tacoma; KPBS-FM/TV, San Diego; WYEP-FM, Pittsburgh; WCPN-FM, Cleveland; Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland; WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio (regional network), Albany; WKSU-FM, Akron/Cleveland; South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc. (state network); and Vermont Public Radio (state network).
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai 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, general economic conditions, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, potential difficulties that Akamai may encounter in attempting to expand its business into international markets, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, Akamai's ability to protect its intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
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| Caryn Brownell Media Relations Akamai Technologies, Inc. 617 - 444 - 4661 cbrownell@akamai.com |
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| Tom Lix Public Interactive 617 - 423 - 4499 tlix@publicinteractive.com |
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High-quality streaming media, with on-demand digital audio and video programming, expands the audience for the nation's leading public broadcasting stations
Boston, MA and Cambridge, MA - February 27, 2002 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software, and Public Interactive, Inc., public broadcasting's leading application service and syndicated content provider, today announced joint customer adoption as well as an expansion to their agreement which will enhance service benefits to Public Interactive's growing network of public radio and public television stations. In less than a year, the two companies have achieved significant acceptance of their joint streaming offering by the public broadcasting community, yielding more than 50 customers in that sector.Public Interactive offers both public radio and public television stations a cost-effective range of private labeled, station-branded, Web-based services for a station's online/on-air community. Consistently ranked among the top five Arbitron® listings of audio network aggregators, Public Interactive began offering Akamai's streaming services to its network of station affiliates in April 2001. The Akamai and Public Interactive alliance combines Public Interactive's application solutions and Akamai's streaming media and audience measurement services for the delivery of live and on-demand audio and video public broadcasting programs. Public Interactive will expand its usage of Akamai's streaming services while supporting a rapidly growing base of both Internet radio listeners and an emerging online video base as well.
"Public radio and public television have a focus on service for their listeners, viewers, and members. The Internet clearly provides an opportunity to not only serve their existing audiences in new and exciting ways, but it also allows for the development of critical new listeners and viewers," said Gina Maniscalco, CEO, Public Interactive.
Since its formation, the relationship between the two companies has yielded more than 50 customers in the public broadcasting sector, including several of the nation's top radio and television stations such as Boston's own powerhouse stations, WBUR and WGBH; WNYC in New York City, the country's largest public radio station; and KERA, a joint radio/television station in Dallas. By taking advantage of Akamai's massively distributed global platform, public broadcasting stations are able to effectively distribute their programming across the Internet with unmatched performance, scalability, and reliability. In the aggregate, Public Broadcasting's affiliate stations now stream nearly 10 terabytes each month, representing a total of more than 1,000,000 listening hours.
"Akamai and Public Interactive are the perfect partners for WGBH in creating a compelling Web presence with an efficient and scalable Internet infrastructure, effectively enabling us to bridge the gap between listeners and producers in public radio," said Bob Lyons, director of WGBH Online, WGBH Boston. "The combined offering has helped WGBH to adopt the Internet as an effective medium for reaching broader audiences."
"The use of streaming media by the public broadcasting sector can greatly enhance the quality of online interaction between the viewer and the producer," said Michael Ruffolo, executive vice president, global sales, services, and marketing, Akamai. "The large number of clients that Akamai and Public Interactive have acquired confirms that the Internet has become a necessary medium to the on-going success of public broadcasting."
"Akamai is without question an organization focused not only on leading-edge technologies and cost-effective service delivery, but enhanced customer service as well. This has been critical to our public broadcasting affiliates and provides the foundation for our expanding relationship," Maniscalco continued.
About Public Interactive
Public Interactive, Inc. is an integrated application service provider (ASP) of online collaborative tools, technologies, and content/commerce infrastructure for public broadcasting stations nationwide. Since June 1999, Public Interactive has provided award-winning content and advanced technologies to public radio and television stations in almost 300 markets across the country. Public Interactive provides innovative, interactive content initiatives to public radio and television stations, including Public NewsRoomTM, Public ArtsTM, , Public EventsTM, and Personal Public RadioTM. The company also creates and manages the award-winning Car Talk website, CARTALK at CARS.COM.
The company was created in partnership with Public Radio International (PRI) and 15 leading public broadcasting organizations including: WNYC-AM/FM, New York; WXPN-FM, Philadelphia; KERA-FM/TV; Dallas; WBUR-AM/FM, Boston; WGBH-FM/TV, Boston; WETA-FM/TV Washington; KPLU-FM, Seattle/Tacoma; KPBS-FM/TV, San Diego; WYEP-FM, Pittsburgh; WCPN-FM, Cleveland; Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland; WAMC/ Northeast Public Radio (regional network), Albany; WKSU-FM, Akron/Cleveland; South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc. (state network); and Vermont Public Radio (state network).
About Akamai
Akamai is a leading provider of secure, outsourced e-business infrastructure services and software. These services and software enable companies to reduce the complexity and cost of deploying and operating a uniform Web infrastructure while ensuring unmatched performance, reliability, scalability and manageability. Akamai's services give businesses a distinct competitive advantage and provide an unparalleled Internet experience for their customers. Akamai's intelligent edge platform for content, streaming media, and application delivery comprises more than 13,500 servers within over 1,000 networks in 66 countries. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Akamai provides services and industry-renowned customer care to hundreds of enterprises worldwide, including dozens of Fortune 500 businesses. For information on Delivering a Better InternetSM, visit www.akamai.com.
Akamai 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, general economic conditions, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, potential difficulties that Akamai may encounter in attempting to expand its business into international markets, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, Akamai's ability to protect its intellectual property rights and inventions from third party challenges, and other factors that are discussed in the Akamai's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
