Case Study: TV 2 achieves flawless, scalable HD streaming — 4× viewing time and 40% subscription growth with Akamai Technologies

Akamai Enables TV 2 To Provide A Flawless Streaming Experience To Their Customers While Providing The Scalability To Meet Peak Traffic Demands

TV 2, Norway’s largest commercial television station with roughly 30% of viewers’ TV time and 65% of the country’s TV ad market, needed to deliver an engaging streaming experience for large live events. Their challenge was scalability: sudden peaks in traffic during major broadcasts caused server bottlenecks and threatened stream quality for many concurrent viewers.

By leveraging Akamai’s network for adaptive streaming, added server capacity and load balancing, TV 2 removed bottlenecks and improved end-user quality during peak demand. The result: average viewing time per subscriber quadrupled and subscriptions rose by 40%, enabling flawless, scalable delivery of major programs.

TV2

Helge Hoibraaten

Manager , TV2