Akamai Announces Streaming Partnership Program.

Business/Technology Editors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000

Akamai strikes strategic partnerships with more than 25 leading

iBuilders, as well as encoding, digital media and production

companies, to offer end-to-end streaming media services

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:AKAM), the foremost provider of global, high-performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, today announced a new partner program designed to enhance the Web services of iBuilders, encoding businesses, production vendors, and other companies that specialize in broadband and streaming media solutions. With the introduction of Akamai's new Streaming Partnership Program, interactive media customers can take advantage of best-of-breed streaming media solutions from Akamai and a host of leading vendors.

Akamai's Streaming Partnership Program currently includes more than 25 leading businesses that provide a variety of Web and interactive media services. These companies have joined Akamai's Streaming Partnership Program to enhance their own suite of offerings by providing Akamai's high-performance streaming media services and applications. By adding Akamai's streaming media services to their offerings, Akamai's Streaming Partners can provide their customers high-quality, reliable and scalable streaming media services that deliver broadcast-quality experiences for Internet end users. In addition to Akamai's current Streaming Partners, there are nearly 50 additional companies that are affiliated through Akamai's recent acquisitions who will also be eligible for conversion into the new Akamai program.

The Akamai Streaming Partnership Program includes two levels of partnership: Streaming Providers and Streaming Alliances.

Akamai's Streaming Providers market and resell Akamai's full range of streaming media services as co-branded offerings. Akamai Streaming Providers including 5B Technologies, EncodeThis!, Loudeye, The Jack Morton Company, and Virage, can offer a robust end-to-end solution for the creation and delivery of streaming media, providing their customers an even higher level of quality, performance, and reliability.

Akamai's Streaming Alliance Partners can enhance their own interactive media products and services by promoting Akamai's streaming media services and applications to their customers. The powerful combination of the alliance partner's own offerings with Akamai's services will allow content providers to ensure high-quality, reliable streaming media delivery and a better overall experience for their customers. Akamai's Streaming Alliance Partners include 21st Century Media, AGENCY.COM, AthenaOnline, AudioCast, Brainfood Media, BURN World-Wide, CIRCA New Media, CloudSystems, DES, Emerald City Media, eXstream Solutions, Fusebox, itvmedia.com, lucidCircus, RAPP Digital, Rare Medium, Razorfish, Real Media, Skyways Communications, Three Squared, Wildform, and Zooropa.

"Akamai's Streaming Alliance Partner program allows Emerald City Media to provide its customers with the industry's most advanced streaming media services," said Paul Goldberg, chairman, Emerald City Media. "With the addition of Akamai's streaming services to our chain of offerings, we can better leverage our customers' brands over the Internet."

"EncodeThis! is excited to be partnering with Akamai to provide a true end-to-end solution for the delivery of streaming media," said Caleb Baskin, vice president of business development and co-founder of EncodeThis! "By integrating our industry-leading encoding and digital media services with Akamai's streaming services and massively distributed network, we enable the encoding, management and delivery of the highest quality streaming media on the Internet. We believe the combination of Akamai's highly innovative and optimized delivery services along with our encoding and digital media services creates a solution that will help drive the future growth of the Internet media market."

"With the addition of Akamai's streaming services to our suite of encoding and digital media solutions, we are able to deliver our customers' streaming content with superior quality and reliability for audiences worldwide," said Ben Weinberg, chairman of itvmedia.com, a leading, Swiss-based European provider of encoding and digital media solutions.

"As a committed partner with Akamai, integrating Loudeye's proven digital media services, applications and consulting with Akamai's industry-leading streaming services is a great way to deliver a complete digital media solution for our customers," said Martin Tobias, minister of order and reason, CEO and founder, Loudeye Technologies, Inc. "As a pioneer in the streaming media industry since 1997, working with industry-leading companies such as Akamai is critical to build the Internet media infrastructure and enable companies to do business on the Internet using digital media."

"Akamai formed its Streaming Partnership Program to meet our channel customers' demands for leading, high-performance streaming media services," said Chris Turner, vice president of North American sales, Akamai. "We are excited by the level of enthusiasm and support we have received from our partners, both existing and new, to further enhance their offerings with Akamai's streaming services. We see the formation of this new partner program as one more indication that streaming content is becoming mainstream."

Streaming Partner Program Benefits

Akamai Streaming Partners can offer their customers the quality, performance and reliability of Akamai's end-to-end streaming media solutions. The Akamai Streaming Partnership program enables these companies to leverage the resources of a known leader in interactive streaming media services, gain competitive advantage by offering best-of-breed streaming solutions, and realize new revenue opportunities through the sale of Akamai services. Akamai Streaming Partners can also benefit from business and marketing support from Akamai, that helps the partners effectively grow their own businesses as an Akamai affiliated company. For more information on this program, please send inquires to [e-mail].

About Akamai

Akamai is the foremost provider of global, high performance services for the delivery of Internet content, streaming media, and applications, serving over 1,000 Web properties. Akamai has the broadest deployment of servers for content, streaming media, and applications delivery with more than 4,000 servers in over 45 countries directly connected to more than 160 different telecommunications networks. Akamai (pronounced AH kuh my) is Hawaiian for intelligent, clever and cool.

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act 

The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai's management that constitute forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by these forward-looking statements as a result of various important factors including, but not limited to, the dependence on Akamai's Internet content delivery service, a failure of its network infrastructure, the complexity of its service and the networks on which the service is deployed, the failure to obtain access to transmission capacity and other factors that are discussed in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K and other documents periodically filed with the SEC.