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John Agger

Principal Industry Marketing Manager, Media & Entertainment, Fastly

John Agger is Fastly’s Principal Industry Marketing Manager, Media & Entertainment. He has been involved with digital media for more than two decades with a strong focus on publishing and streaming media workflows. In his role, John works with key strategic accounts to bring awareness of Fastly’s increasing product line as they relate to M&E. Over the course of his career, John has also worked for Adobe, Dolby, IBM, and Ericsson on go-to-market strategies, awareness and sustainability.

  • Building vs Buying a CDN: Choosing the Right Global Network Infrastructure

    John Agger

    Should you build or buy a CDN? Learn the pros and cons of building vs. using CDN services for your global network infrastructure. Make the right choice for your business.

    Performance
    + 2 more

  • Super Bowl 2025: How Social Media Reacted in Real Time

    John Agger

    Celebrate the success of Super Bowl LIX, the most-watched in history with 128 million viewers. Uncover the intriguing social media dynamics from this iconic event.

    CDN & Delivery
    + 2 more

  • Fastly’s Edge Cloud Industry Reports: A Year in Review

    John Agger

    Explore our industry reports on edge cloud strategies, addressing performance and security challenges. Unlock innovative solutions for common business challenges.

    Industry insights
    Edge network

  • Security and Bot Management is Crucial for eCommerce During Back-to-School Sales

    John Agger

    Strengthen your eCommerce site's security to protect customer information and maintain trust with back-to-school shoppers.

    Security
    Industry insights

  • Improving your WebSocket stack

    John Agger

    Websocket limitations can be costly and inefficient if you want to push a lot of real-time content. Discover how Websockets paired with Fastly Fanout improves real-time communication.

    Compute
    + 2 more

  • Three industry developments to track at NAB 2023

    John Agger

    Here are three big media & entertainment industry developments to follow at this year’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2023.

    Industry insights
    Streaming

  • Delivering Super Bowl for more than a decade -- and breaking records in the process

    John Agger

    2023 marks the 11th year of Fastly’s involvement in the Super Bowl. Back in 2013, we secured dedicated bandwidth to online businesses advertising throughout the game. However, since 2018 Fastly has been actively involved in delivering the live Super Bowl stream from broadcasters to millions of online viewers around the globe.

    Streaming
    + 5 more

  • Streaming Continued to Grow in 2022, With Some Surprises

    John Agger

    Here are the main trends (and a few surprises) Fastly encountered in streaming in 2022, and what we expect in the future.

    Streaming
    Industry insights

  • The Importance of Multi-CDN in Two Charts

    John Agger

    When content delivery networks (CDNs) garner coverage in the media, it's almost always because of an outage. Yet, outages are not a major reason to move to adopt multiple CDNs.

    Streaming

  • A closer look at low latency delivery

    John Agger

    Latency — the lag between when the packet leaves the streaming source and when it arrives at the consumer’s device — takes many forms, with the most common being lag, dropped frames, buffering, and with that reduced video quality.

    Streaming

  • Five ways to make your CDN work harder for you

    Chris Buckley, John Agger

    There are many more well-documented reasons to make a CDN part of your distribution. In this blog post we examine some lesser-known rationales to help you scale and improve your business.

    Streaming
    WebAssembly

  • Live sports delivery challenges conquered | Fastly

    John Agger

    With zero tolerance for rebuffering and streams that scale from zero to massive in no time, the stakes are unusually high, making live sport the most demanding content type to deliver, requiring both flexibility and resiliency.

    Platform
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  • Modern CDN for Digital Publishing

    John Agger

    The key to customer retention is serving the most up-to-date content instantly, personalizing that content for readers, and ensuring online experiences are responsive, safe, and secure. Here are three ways a modern content delivery network, or CDN, can help you do just that.

    Performance
    Streaming

  • When do you need low-latency HTTP live streaming?

    John Agger

    Low-latency live streaming is more relevant than ever. New user experiences, like quizzes and real-time voting, built around content and entertainment must be available with little to no delay. In this post, we look at the business cases that warrant low-latency HTTP live streaming.

    Industry insights
    Streaming

  • Seven tips to improve live streaming

    John Agger

    At Fastly, we’ve helped some of the world’s leading broadcasters and content owners deliver live events that scale from local news to the very largest sporting events. And we’ve learned a thing or two along the way. Check out our seven tips for live streaming success.

    Streaming
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