Limelight Networks Connects Broadcasters, Audiences Through Speedy Content Delivery

The Sports Video Group is pleased to welcome Limelight Networks as a premier sponsor. A global leader in digital-content delivery, Limelight Networks empowers customers to better engage with digital audiences by enabling them to manage and deliver digital content to any device anywhere in world.

Headquartered in Tempe, AZ, Limelight provides powerful cloud-based services to help organizations improve the overall consumer sports experience by delivering the highest-quality video for on-demand and live streaming, faster Websites, and more-responsive Web applications.

“We’re thrilled to join the Sports Video Group and become a part of this industry-leading group,” says CMO Kirby Wadswoth. “The bar is high and is steadily rising as evidenced by the massive online audience for this year’s 2014 FIFA World Cup games. The sports industry, in particular, faces high expectations to deliver uninterrupted video content at high quality to any device anywhere in the world. We’re honored to have the opportunity to exchange insights and learn from fellow members as we tackle these challenges together.”

Leading broadcasters around the world leverage Limelight solutions and reliable, high-performance network to meet fans’ expectations for exceptional video experiences on any device anywhere. In addition to delivering some of the most popular sports events in the U.S., Limelight delivers flawless game-time experience on a global scale for events like the World Cup, Wimbledon, the Indian Cricket League, the European Championship, and the RBS Six Nations’ rugby championships, to name just a few.

The company’s Limelight Orchestrate Platform is an integrated suite of content-delivery technology, delivered on a massively provisioned private global network and backed by a team of experts who’ve proved they have what it takes to deliver the biggest online events the world has ever seen.

For more information, visit www.limelight.com.