Case Study: WorkCast achieves scalable, low-latency global live event delivery with Limelight Networks

Workcast Uses Limelight to Deliver Content-rich, Live Events Worldwide

WorkCast is a cloud-based webinar and webcasting platform used by more than 250 global organizations, including Sony and Barclays, to deliver webinars, webcasts, virtual events and on-demand channels that play on any device without plugins. As its audience and event sizes grew—often to tens of thousands of concurrent viewers—WorkCast needed a faster, more available and scalable CDN and modern live-streaming capabilities to ensure reliable, high-quality playback across varied networks and devices.

WorkCast chose Limelight’s CDN and MMD Live to gain global reach, low-latency HLS/MPEG‑DASH streaming, and multi-format delivery (HLS, SmoothStreaming, HDS, MPEG‑DASH, Flash). The result was faster, more resilient delivery of large live and on-demand events at near-broadcast quality across devices worldwide, backed by Limelight’s transcoding and performance capabilities.

WorkCast

Stewart Kibby

Co-Founder and CEO