Key Impacts
- Increased download performance by 10X
- Reduced performance-related support calls by 50%
- Saved over $500,000 in infrastructure and bandwidth
Founded in 1999, Zango, Inc. is an online media company providing consumers with free access to a large catalog of sought-after online videos, games, music, tools, and utilities. Through what it calls its "Content Economy," Zango delivers ads that are relevant to the consumer's activity. This enables advertisers to earn an industry-leading return on investment for their marketing dollars, while consumers can access and enjoy Web content and entertainment In October 2007, Zango announced that its five-year revenue growth rate of 2,279% ranked the Bellevue-based company as the fifth fastestgrowing technology company in Washington State.
It's difficult to estimate just how much it might have cost us to expand our infrastructure globally, but even a small data center would probably have cost in excess of $500,000, and that doesn't include any of the recurring costs or bandwidth contracts. Plus, additional data centers would not have guaranteed an optimal end-user experience. Because infrastructure expansion was not an option, we began evaluating CDNs and decided that Akamai was the best choice. Akamai enables us to cost-effectively and successfully address our requirement for high-quality content delivery—without taking on the costs and management headaches associated with new data centers," continues VanderHoek.
"With Akamai by our side, we can confidently pursue our plans to expand globally."
—Dan VanderHoek, Director of Operations, Zango
