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Akamai Selected as Exclusive Streaming Provider for the 75th Annual Academy Awards
Taking place on Sunday, March 23rd at 5:30 PST/8:30 EST, Oscar Night® will be broadcast live on ABC. To complement the Academy Awards broadcast, www.Oscar.com, which is managed by ABC.com, will feature live streaming footage of red carpet arrivals and interviews with Oscar winners from the press room. Interviews will also be available on-demand after the broadcast. Leading up to the event, streamed trailers from the nominated films and performances will be available. Oscar.com will rely on Akamai's services for the delivery of all streaming media on the Oscar.com site.
"Akamai is synonymous with supporting today's most successful Internet events," said Harry Lin, vice president of ABC.com, also an Akamai customer. "The popularity of the Oscars is experienced on a global scale. Akamai offers us a unique extensibility to our site infrastructure. By scaling to meet demand for content, we are able to ensure a high-quality streaming presentation."
Utilizing Akamai's global network of over 13,000 servers, Oscar.com will have the scalability on demand to support any number of concurrent streams to a worldwide audience. Akamai has partnered with BT Broadcast Services, the Americas Inc., for encoding and signal acquisition services for the live, global webcast.
Akamai's integrated reporting tools will provide Oscar.com managers with real-time control over their site infrastructure to effectively measure the success of their programming and better understand visitors and their interests. This business insight allows companies to refine their value proposition and enhance their customers' online experience.
The 75th Annual Academy Awards will be presented at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® and televised live by ABC beginning at 5:30 PST. Live streaming of the red carpet arrivals will begin at 3:30 PST. For more about the 75th Annual Academy Awards, log onto www.oscar.com.
Oscar.com is a co-production of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC.com.
About Akamai
Akamai® provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, visit www.akamai.com.
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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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure of our telecommunications suppliers to provide sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company'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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| Jeff Young Media Relations Akamai Technologies, Inc. 617-444-3913 jyoung@akamai.com |
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Oscar.com will rely on Akamai to provide millions of visitors with live streaming from the most anticipated film awards ceremony
CAMBRIDGE, MA, March 10, 2003 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), a provider of products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure, today announced that it has been selected as the exclusive streaming provider for Oscar.com, the official Web site of the 75th Annual Academy Awards. Akamai's globally distributed computing platform will be used to deliver live and on-demand streaming video on Oscar.com.Taking place on Sunday, March 23rd at 5:30 PST/8:30 EST, Oscar Night® will be broadcast live on ABC. To complement the Academy Awards broadcast, www.Oscar.com, which is managed by ABC.com, will feature live streaming footage of red carpet arrivals and interviews with Oscar winners from the press room. Interviews will also be available on-demand after the broadcast. Leading up to the event, streamed trailers from the nominated films and performances will be available. Oscar.com will rely on Akamai's services for the delivery of all streaming media on the Oscar.com site.
"Akamai is synonymous with supporting today's most successful Internet events," said Harry Lin, vice president of ABC.com, also an Akamai customer. "The popularity of the Oscars is experienced on a global scale. Akamai offers us a unique extensibility to our site infrastructure. By scaling to meet demand for content, we are able to ensure a high-quality streaming presentation."
Utilizing Akamai's global network of over 13,000 servers, Oscar.com will have the scalability on demand to support any number of concurrent streams to a worldwide audience. Akamai has partnered with BT Broadcast Services, the Americas Inc., for encoding and signal acquisition services for the live, global webcast.
Akamai's integrated reporting tools will provide Oscar.com managers with real-time control over their site infrastructure to effectively measure the success of their programming and better understand visitors and their interests. This business insight allows companies to refine their value proposition and enhance their customers' online experience.
The 75th Annual Academy Awards will be presented at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® and televised live by ABC beginning at 5:30 PST. Live streaming of the red carpet arrivals will begin at 3:30 PST. For more about the 75th Annual Academy Awards, log onto www.oscar.com.
Oscar.com is a co-production of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and ABC.com.
About Akamai
Akamai® provides products and services that enable the world's leading enterprises and government agencies to extend and control their e-business infrastructure. Having deployed the world's largest, globally-distributed computing platform, Akamai ensures the highest levels of availability, reliability, security, and performance of networked information and application delivery between the origin and the destination of any e-business process. Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with research and development centers around the world, Akamai's industry-leading products and services, matched with world-class customer care, are used by hundreds of successful enterprises, government entities, and Web businesses around the globe. For more information, 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, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service and technology products, the effects of any attempts to intentionally disrupt our services or network by hackers or others, failure of our telecommunications suppliers to provide sufficient transmission capacity, a failure of Akamai's network infrastructure, and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.
