Case Study: StyleShare achieves rapid, reliable global media delivery with Akamai Technologies

Styleshare Makes Its Move To Become one of The Top Crowd Sourced Fashion Platform Powered By Akamai

StyleShare is a Seoul-based, crowd-sourced fashion platform launched in 2011 that quickly grew to more than 1.5 million subscribers with high daily and monthly engagement and a rising international audience. As the company prepared to evolve from a fashion social network into a converged global platform (adding shopping, advertising and streaming), it faced the challenge of delivering reliable, high-performance media to a growing and geographically dispersed user base without large new infrastructure investments.

StyleShare migrated to Akamai’s Media Delivery solutions in under two weeks (with initial setup in three days), enabling 90% faster image downloads (from 1.576s to 0.144s) and uninterrupted content delivery even during server failures. The result was a significant traffic and user gain—local users grew 240% and global users about 200% within a year—while establishing a scalable, reliable foundation for its expanded shopping, advertising and streaming services.

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Hyun-Joon Kim

Engineer