Case Study: 7digital achieves faster music streaming and scalable edge control with Fastly

7digital - Customer Case Study

7digital is a global digital music platform that powers B2B and direct-to-consumer services for partners like Samsung and the BBC, with a catalog of over 27 million tracks and apps preinstalled on more than 60 million devices. They needed a modern CDN that acted as an extension of their stack—one that offered real-time configurability, deep visibility, and reliable performance after their previous provider’s outage exposed limited control, poor analytics, and slow handling of large, long-tail audio files and HLS streams for iOS.

Fastly delivered an easy-to-integrate, API-driven CDN with custom VCL, Streaming Miss, HLS support, and real-time analytics, plus proactive expert support. The result: 90% of requests served from the edge, uncached files’ TTFB reduced from 1–2 seconds to ~400–500 ms, much lower origin load despite user growth, rapid onboarding, and fine-grained authentication control—delivering a faster, more transparent, and scalable streaming experience.

7digital

Darrell Mozingo

Team Lead - Content-Dev