Limelight Networks Announces Acquisition of Delve Networks

In big news today, we’ve announced the acquisition of online video platform and analytics company Delve Networks. They make it easy for people to create rich online content without getting tangled up in coding details, interoperability issues, and the headache of managing multiple delivery channels. Delve does all this and has an impressive customer list to boot, including Standard & Poor’s, Hallmark, Lego, CDW, the NFL, ESPN, and many, many others.

Delve falls squarely in the rapidly growing Software as a Service (SaaS) category. By adding it to the Limelight distributed computing platform, their scalable software now gains an Internet-scale infrastructure. Together we’ll be able to help our customers continue to meet the critical challenges involved in video publishing, mobile publishing, and website publishing workflows. This type of value-added service is critical as online publishing continues to grow more complex, and as more organizations – small and large enterprises, government entities, associations, etc. – find they need to participate in the media-rich world of online communications.

Limelight Networks is well-matched with the Delve team for several reasons. One of the most important ones, however, is our shared corporate philosophy. Both of our companies are committed to open, standards-based architectures, and to partnering with the larger industry ecosystem to further innovation and simplify online publishing and delivery for our customers. To that end, we will continue to support our existing partner relationships with video platform providers, just as Delve will continue to support its relationships with other delivery partners. We believe our companies complement each other well, but not to the exclusion of other providers. We will continue to give our customers the freedom to choose the technologies and services that best meet their needs.

Delve Networks is part of Limelight Networks as of today, with the entire Delve team joining the Limelight organization. We’re pleased to welcome co-founder Alex Castro and the rest of the talented team to Limelight, and excited to see the innovations that will come from our new Video Platform Solutions Group.

Want to learn more about what Delve has to offer? Take a peek at the Delve Networks website for video demos and product details.

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