Case Study: Score Media handles peak demand and offloads up to 98% of origin hits with Akamai Technologies' Origin Offload Optimization

Score Media Leverages Akamai Origin Offload Optimization Package To Handle Peak Demands Without Expanding Infrastructure

Score Media, a Canadian interactive sports-entertainment company best known for The Score and the ScoreMobile app, faced severe traffic spikes during major sporting events that overwhelmed its servers. With millions of app downloads and peak loads during playoffs and Sunday NFL windows, the company needed to offload origin servers and deliver near real-time scores without continually expanding infrastructure.

Working with Akamai, Score Media implemented Dynamic Site Delivery and the Origin Offload Optimization package from Akamai Professional Services to fine‑tune CDN configurations. The result: 90–98% of origin hits and about 95% of bandwidth offloaded, the ability to serve over 1,000 page requests per second, avoidance of a 10–15x expansion in delivery servers and reliable support for 1.1 million unique visitors in a month—enabling confident global growth and new product launches.

Score Media

Dale Fallon

Director of Mobile