Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge: Limelight to provide flash video for MyToons.com

Indiantelevision.com's Digital Edge

Limelight to provide flash video for MyToons.com

Indiantelevision.com Team

(17 May 2007 12:25 pm)

MUMBAI: Limelight Networks has announced to provide flash video streaming infrastructure for MyToons.com, a new content-sharing web site that distributes user-contributed animation videos to internet audiences worldwide.

Earlier, Limelight Network has provided flash delivery of animated content to more than 1.5 million unique visitors after the first three weeks of its launch.

Limelight senior vice president worldwide sales, services and marketing David Hatfield said, "MyToons.com has an exacting base of users with a high expectation for flawless performance in the delivery of rich media content. Our distributed delivery network was built from the ground up to handle rich media content such as animated videos, and our Flash video streaming offering gives MyToons.com a highly reliable and scalable solution for flash delivery of animated content."

MyToons.com president Paul Ford said, "MyToons.com is the place where everyone who really loves animation, from seasoned industry pros to enthusiastic fans, can share their artistic creations and animated favorites with the entire world for free".

"Leveraging Limelight Networks' flash Video Streaming capability, we can reliably deliver high-quality, cutting-edge animations to a global audience of animation enthusiasts. And in conjunction with the encoding and content management services that they also provide to us, Limelight Networks is playing a key role in helping us build the world's greatest online animation community," adds Ford.