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Break.com Taps Limelight Networks to Fulfill Growing Online Video Distribution Needs.


LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  -- Top Online Entertainment Channel for Short Form Content Revamps Site Design and Partners with Leading Content Delivery Network to Distribute First-Class Streaming Video A one-way video transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play video clips and video broadcasts. Computers in home networks stream video to digital media hubs connected to a home theater.  Entertainment

Break.com, the premier user-generated online entertainment network with over 13 million unique monthly visitors, and Limelight Networks Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW) is a network for bandwidth-intensive rich media applications over the Internet. It is based in Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A.

The company seeks to position the Limelight Content Delivery Network (CDN) as the best platform for distribution of
, the world's leading Internet content delivery network for digital media, today announced a partnership that employs Limelight's global high-performance network to enable the delivery of large-scale innovative online video entertainment content to Break's expanding audience across broadband and mobile platforms.

By utilizing Limelight's high-capacity network, Break.com can provide users with quick and reliable delivery of content from Break.com's entire library of original user-generated content The production of content by the general public rather than by paid professionals and experts in the field. Mostly available on the Web via blogs and wikis, user-generated content refers to material such as the daily news, encyclopedias and other references, movie and product reviews as , which is stored within the Limelight network and delivered from Limelight's distributed, edge locations around the world.

This exclusive partnership affords Break.com the freedom to focus on developing original content for its online broadcast to its fast-growing global audience -- leaving delivery of the content in the hands of Limelight Networks.

"We are thrilled to partner with Limelight Networks to further expand our worldwide reach and deliver our content more effectively than ever before," said Keith Richman Dr. Keith S. Richman is a California, United States, Republican politician. From 2001 to 2007, he served in the California State Assembly representing the 38th Assembly District based in Northwest Los Angeles County. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Break.com. "Our original and compelling content library is the backbone of the Break.com network, and with Limelight's technology, we can confidently assure our users that they will continue to receive the fastest, easiest and most convenient online video experience possible."

"Limelight Networks empowers media companies with the scalability necessary to distribute video and music to Internet audiences of any size," said Mike Sawyer, Vice President of Marketing at Limelight Networks. "Break is a leading online video entertainment destination with a rapidly growing audience. Our partnership with Break.com leverages Limelight's global content delivery network to meet the demands of Break.com's fast-growing fan base."

About Break.com

Founded in 1998, Break.com is the Internet's leading cross-platform, user-generated digital entertainment network offering funny, original short-form content to millions of Internet users and mobile subscribers around the world. With more than thirteen million unique monthly browsers tuning in tuning in,
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 to enjoy the Web's largest and rapidly growing library of original videos and images, Break.com offers advertisers tremendous opportunities to market directly to a young, male demographic. Break.com empowers its audience to become content providers with an easy to use platform that allows them to upload, distribute and monetize their original content, whether it is homegrown or commercial-grade. Break.com is currently ranked as the 283th largest site in the world by Alexa.com, and serves close to 300 million video requests monthly. For more information, please visit http://www.break.com.

About Limelight Networks

Limelight Networks is the industry's highest performance content delivery network for digital media, providing massively scalable, global delivery solutions for on-demand and live Internet distribution of video, music, games and downloads. Limelight Networks' infrastructure is optimized for the large object sizes, large content libraries, and large audiences associated with compelling rich media content. Limelight is the content delivery network of choice for more than 500 of the world's top media companies, including Akimbo, ABC Radio Networks, Belo Interactive, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

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