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John Agger

Principal Industry Marketing Manager, Media & Entertainment, Fastly

John Agger is Fastly’s Principal Industry Marketing Manager, Media & Entertainment. He has been involved with digital media for more than two decades with a strong focus on publishing and streaming media workflows. In his role, John works with key strategic accounts to bring awareness of Fastly’s increasing product line as they relate to M&E. Over the course of his career, John has also worked for Adobe, Dolby, IBM, and Ericsson on go-to-market strategies, awareness and sustainability.

Fastly’s Edge Cloud Industry Reports: A Year in Review

John Agger

Explore our industry reports on edge cloud strategies, addressing performance and security challenges. Unlock innovative solutions for common business challenges.

Industry insights
Edge network

Security and Bot Management is Crucial for eCommerce During Back-to-School Sales

John Agger

Strengthen your eCommerce site's security to protect customer information and maintain trust with back-to-school shoppers.

Security
Industry insights

Improving your WebSocket stack

John Agger

Websocket limitations can be costly and inefficient if you want to push a lot of real-time content. Discover how Websockets paired with Fastly Fanout improves real-time communication.

Compute
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Three industry developments to track at NAB 2023

John Agger

Here are three big media & entertainment industry developments to follow at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2023.

Industry insights
Streaming

Delivering Super Bowl for more than a decade -- and breaking records in the process

John Agger

2023 marks the 11th year of Fastly’s involvement in the Super Bowl. Back in 2013, we secured dedicated bandwidth to online businesses advertising throughout the game. However, since 2018 Fastly has been actively involved in delivering the live Super Bowl stream from broadcasters to millions of online viewers around the globe.

Streaming
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Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises

John Agger

Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.

Streaming
Industry insights

The Importance of Multi-CDN in Two Charts

John Agger

When content delivery networks (CDNs) garner coverage in the media, it's almost always because of an outage. Yet, outages are not a major reason to move to adopt multiple CDNs.

Streaming

A closer look at low latency delivery

John Agger

Latency — the lag between when the packet leaves the streaming source and when it arrives at the consumer’s device — takes many forms, with the most common being lag, dropped frames, buffering, and with that reduced video quality.

Streaming

Five ways to make your CDN work harder for you

Chris Buckley, John Agger

There are many more well-documented reasons to make a CDN part of your distribution. In this blog post we examine some lesser-known rationales to help you scale and improve your business.

Streaming
WebAssembly

Live sports delivery challenges conquered | Fastly

John Agger

With zero tolerance for rebuffering and streams that scale from zero to massive in no time, the stakes are unusually high, making live sport the most demanding content type to deliver, requiring both flexibility and resiliency.

Platform
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Modern CDN for Digital Publishing

John Agger

The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.

Performance
Streaming

When do you need low-latency HTTP live streaming?

John Agger

Low-latency live streaming is more relevant than ever. New user experiences, like quizzes and real-time voting, built around content and entertainment must be available with little to no delay. In this post, we look at the business cases that warrant low-latency HTTP live streaming.

Industry insights
Streaming

Seven tips to improve live streaming

John Agger

At Fastly, we’ve helped some of the world’s leading broadcasters and content owners deliver live events that scale from local news to the very largest sporting events. And we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. Check out our seven tips for live streaming success.

Streaming