Limelight Announces Deals

Limelight Networks announced that MyVideo.de has selected Limelight as its exclusive provider of CDN services

August 20, 2007

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TEMPE, Ariz. -- Limelight Networks , a leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media, announced today that MyVideo.de, the largest video delivery service in Germany, has selected Limelight as its exclusive provider of CDN services. Using Limelight's high performance CDN, Romania-based MyVideo.de can cost-effectively scale its video-sharing offerings to accommodate its rapidly increasing audience of users, while ensuring high quality and reliable access to rich media content at peak times.

MyVideo.de is Germany's leading video delivery service and has been at the forefront of the user-generated video sharing industry since early 2006. The site provides users with a portal to upload, view and share videos for the German-language market. With free access provided to more than one and a half million videos, the site is growing steadily, servicing more than eight million video views per day -- an increase of more than one million per day in only four months. Users can share links with friends and family, as well as rate and comment on the videos.

MyVideo.de previously provisioned its own servers but found the rapidly increasing number of users was slowing the service down considerably, providing a poor customer experience. Limelight Networks has taken away the need for MyVideo.de to invest in a private infrastructure by providing a globally distributed rich media delivery solution that dramatically improves the time it takes for users to view or upload videos. MyVideo.de can now ensure a reliable and high-quality customer experience even at peak times, when most users in the community are viewing or uploading videos.

"It became clear early on that we would need to improve our infrastructure in order to provide our customers with a superior level of service," said MyVideo spokesperson Tilo Bonow. "We needed a scalable and high-performing network that would allow all of our customers to experience the best possible delivery speeds at any time of day, especially during peak times. We were familiar with Limelight Networks and decided that their experience and global network would be the ideal solution to deliver the quality of service our user community expects and to ensure we were able to successfully meet our ever-expanding growth."

In a separate release:

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Limelight Networks(NASDAQ:LLNW), a leading content delivery network (CDN) for digital media, announced today that Music Plus Television Network, Inc. (MusicPlusTV.com) has completed its second year broadcasting live, original music videos and television content around the world over the Internet, powered by Limelight's high-performance CDN.

MusicPlusTV.com has grown rapidly into one of the world's top Internet destinations for music, currently drawing more than five million unique users and generating more than 150 million impressions per month. MusicPlusTV.com features both original programming developed in its Los Angeles, Calif. studios, as well as an extensive digital library of streaming on-demand programs and user-generated content. Using Limelight's CDN services, MusicPlusTV.com can manage the full availability of its increasing digital media library and reliably broadcast high-quality programming to its ever-growing global audience without service disruptions or video quality issues.

"Limelight Networks makes it possible for us to stream our video content rapidly and with high quality to audiences worldwide by delivering an efficient and robust delivery infrastructure that can handle our massive traffic volumes," said Marc A. Cubas, chairman and chief executive officer of Music Plus Television Network, Inc. "We're not just using Limelight's network to deliver on-demand programming. Limelight is actually pushing our live entertainment content globally -- something we have found that no other CDN can provide with the same consistently high delivery standard as their on-demand service."

Limelight Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW)

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