Case Study: Gannett achieves faster publishing, better performance, and lower costs with Fastly

Gannett - Customer Case Study

Gannett, a diversified media company behind USA TODAY and local media brands, needed to publish breaking news faster and handle surges in traffic while improving site performance and developer agility. Before Fastly, content updates could take 45 to 90 seconds to go live, and configuration changes were slow and restrictive, making it harder to stay first with news and respond quickly to audience demand.

With Fastly’s edge cloud platform, Instant Purge, load balancing tools, Image Optimization, and Web Application Firewall, Gannett was able to publish content in about 150 milliseconds globally, cut egress costs by about 35%, and reduce config-change time from over an hour to less than five seconds. Fastly also helped Gannett launch new projects quickly, including a COVID-era support site built in under 48 hours, while improving performance and security across its digital properties.

Gannett

Erik Bursch

VP, Product Technology