Through Alvenda’s use of Akamai, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM realized a 41 percent increase in sales per impression and a 10.5 times increase in interaction rates

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & MINNEAPOLIS – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, and Alvenda, the only ecommerce-enabled advertising network, announced that they delivered the industry’s first online interactive ecommerce-enabled advertising campaign for 1-800-FLOWERS.COM during the recent Mother’s Day holiday. Akamai was chosen to accelerate performance of the Shoplets™ (shop-able advertisements) application, improve response time and reduce application load.
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CAMBRIDGE, MA – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced online traffic statistics associated with live coverage of the funeral services of Michael Jackson.

Experiencing the second largest day ever in terms of total traffic on the Akamai network, the Company reported it delivered more than 2,185,000 live and on-demand streams in Flash® and Windows® Media formats. Total traffic on the Akamai network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second during the memorial service.
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MARINA, Calif. – Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) posted $1.16 billion in 2008 revenue, notching 30% improvement over 2007.

The U.S. market made up an estimated 57% of the global tally; combined geographies are forecast to grow at 19% in 2009.

Revenue attached to audiovisual verticals including professional video, video advertising, video advertising networks, CMS platforms, online music spins, UGV and podcasting totaled $550 million, or 47.3% of total billings, according to CDN Account Verticals and Revenue Performance 2006 – 2010, a rigorous analytics report published by AccuStream iMedia Research.

Professional video (including advertising) remains the most penetrated and lucrative audiovisual vertical, with 76.2% of views delivered through CDN contracts.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM)

* Fourth quarter revenue grew to $212.6 million, up 8 percent from the prior quarter and 16 percent year-over-year, and annual revenue increased 24 percent year-over-year to $790.9 million
* Fourth quarter GAAP net income increased 22 percent quarter-over-quarter to $40.5 million, or $0.22 per diluted share, and full-year GAAP net income increased 44 percent year-over-year to $145.1 million, or $0.79 per diluted share
* Fourth quarter normalized net income* increased 11 percent quarter-over-quarter to $82.2 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, and full-year normalized net income* increased 26 percent year-over-year to $308.5 million, or $1.66 per diluted share
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NYTimes.com, Ustream, Viacom, WSJ.com, and other leading network and cable broadcasters among the popular destinations that leveraged Akamai for live Adobe® Flash® streaming of Obama inauguration

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced online traffic statistics associated with live coverage of the Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of The United States.

As the largest day ever for the delivery of concurrent live streaming over the Akamai EdgePlatform, the Company reported it delivered a peak of over 7 million active simultaneous streams (the majority being live streams) at approximately 12:15 p.m. ET today. A real-time view of streaming on the Akamai EdgePlatform can be seen at: http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/dataviz3.html.
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Increasingly dynamic, interactive sites leverage Akamai’s advanced services to improve page load times, user download speeds and overall site effectiveness

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced that Gorilla Nation Media, a diversified online media company, is leveraging Akamai’s solutions to deliver and accelerate more than 55 global sites.

Exclusively representing hundreds of leading websites in various vertical markets, Gorilla Nation Media develops leading consumer destination sites that enable advertisers to reach targeted audience segments and demographics. All of the Gorilla Nation destinations are rich, dynamic sites with ever-changing content – including videos, images, contests, and discussion boards – and require a globally-distributed platform to deliver rich, dynamically-generated content. For rich, interactive websites, like the many in Gorilla Nation’s portfolio, the ability to accelerate page downloads, increase consumption and improve the overall site experience leads to increased and repeat visitors, incremental ad revenue, page view increases and an improved competitive edge.
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Customer experienced 2X improvement in performance leveraging Akamai’s comprehensive solution set

CAMBRIDGE, MA AND SALT LAKE CITY, UT – December 10, 2008 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, and Vehix, a multi-platform digital automotive network, today announced that Akamai’s Dynamic Site Accelerator service is accelerating its automotive web site. More than 2 million unique visitors each month visit www.vehix.com. Vehix is also using Akamai’s Media Delivery solution to deliver rich, online video content, such as video buying guides on Vehix’s Video Center. Powered by Akamai, Vehix delivers informative, easy-to-use, and interactive online video buying guides, allowing consumers to conduct automotive research that makes their car-buying experience easier and more enjoyable.
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Akamai’s Media Delivery solution enables Nobelprize.org to present live webcast of the award ceremony from the Stockholm Concert Hall in Sweden

CAMBRIDGE, MA – December 9, 2008 – Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, announced today that Nobelprize.org, the official website of the Nobel Foundation, the organization who arranges the world famous Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies, is using Akamai’s Media Delivery solution to stream this year’s ceremony live online on December 10, 2008. This year, Nobelprize.org experienced a four-fold increase in video traffic when the Nobel Prize Laureates were announced. Having used its own infrastructure to stream the event in the past, Nobelprize.org realized they needed to leverage Akamai’s global platform for events moving forward in order to provide a high-quality, scalable experience for all interested parties around the globe.
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