Akamai Technologies - Customers

Customers

On July 21, 1999, at Macworld Expo New York, Apple and Akamai announced a strategic partnership to build Apple's new media network, QuickTime TV (QTV), based on QuickTime Streaming Server. Both companies later announced that Apple had made a $12.5 million investment in the company the previous month. Apple continues to use Akamai as their primary content delivery network for a wide range of applications including software downloads from Apple's Website, QuickTime movie trailers, and the iTunes Store.

In September 1999, Microsoft and Akamai formed a strategic relationship to incorporate Windows Media technology in Akamai's FreeFlow service, as well as to facilitate the porting of the FreeFlow product to the Windows platform; this relationship exists to this day.

Arabic news network Al-Jazeera was a customer from March 28, 2003 until April 2, 2003, when Akamai decided to end the relationship. The network's English-language managing editor claimed this was due to political pressure.

In June 2008, The NewsMarket teamed with Akamai to accelerate dynamic content and applications to global media ahead of the Beijing Olympics.

The BBC iPlayer uses Akamai to stream its recorded and live programs, focused through an XML playlist.

The official U.S. government White House website (WhiteHouse.gov) uses Akamai Technologies for hosting video clips of President Barack Obama's Web addresses on their own in-house servers, after having posted previous addresses as embedded YouTube clips on the site.

The entire China Central Television website (CCTV.com), including its streaming video, has been hosted on Akamai’s edge servers since late 2009. Hulu uses Akamai for hosting video. MIT OpenCourseWare utilizes Akamai's EdgeSuite for its content delivery network.

Trend Micro uses Akamai for their Housecall antivirus application.

Akamai also provided streaming services to ESPN Star (India) during the course of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011. Other customers include Facebook, Twitter, AMD, Hilton Worldwide Hotels, Amazon.com (for their dynamic contents), Adobe Systems, Netflix, Cineville, Miles Kimball, J. C. Penney, Yahoo! Blizzard Entertainment, QNet Virtual Office and github.

Important Customer Privacy Considerations as listed in Akamai's privacy policy: As Akamai's business develops, Akamai may also offer services on its own behalf or on behalf of business customers directly to consumers that could involve the collection, use or disclosure of personally identifiable information unless otherwise directed by our business customers.