In Its First Month, MyToons.com Leverages Limelight's Flash Video Streaming Capability to Deliver Animation Videos to Over 1.5 Million Unique Visitors

Limelight Networks, a leading content delivery network for digital media, announced it is providing the advanced Flash video streaming infrastructure for MyToons.com, a new content- sharing web site that distributes user-contributed animation videos to Internet audiences worldwide. As the exclusive CDN for MyToons.com, Limelight has provided Flash delivery of animated content to more than 1.5 million unique visitors in the first three weeks after launch -- a high percentage of whom have returned as repeat visitors for additional MyToons.com Flash streaming content.

"MyToons.com is the place where everyone who really loves animation, from seasoned industry pros to enthusiastic fans, can share their artistic creations and animated favorites with the entire world for free," said Paul Ford, president at MyToons.com. "Leveraging Limelight Networks' Flash Video Streaming capability, we can reliably deliver high-quality, cutting-edge animations to a global audience of animation enthusiasts. And in conjunction with the encoding and content management services that they also provide to us, Limelight Networks is playing a key role in helping us build the world's greatest online animation community."

"MyToons.com has an exacting base of users with a high expectation for flawless performance in the delivery of rich media content," said David Hatfield, senior vice president of worldwide sales, services and marketing at Limelight. "Our distributed delivery network was built from the ground up to handle rich media content such as animated videos, and our Flash video streaming offering gives MyToons.com a highly reliable and scalable solution for flash delivery of animated content."

About MyToons.com

Based in San Antonio, MyToons.com was established in 2006 as an online resource and entertainment destination for professional animators, industry executives, artists and fans. Founded by industry leaders Paul Ford, Dan Kraus and Stacey Ford, MyToons.com is currently aligning with content creators and well-known industry personalities to provide the highest quality and best variety of online content and services for MyToons.com.

About Limelight Networks

Limelight Networks is a high performance content delivery network for digital media, providing massively scalable, global delivery solutions for on- demand and live Internet distribution of video, music, games and downloads. Limelight Networks' infrastructure is optimized for the large object sizes, large content libraries, and large audiences associated with compelling rich media content. Limelight is the content delivery network of choice for more than 700 of the world's top media companies, including Akimbo, Amazon Unbox(TM), Belo Interactive, Brightcove, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC, Facebook, FOXNews.com, IFILM, ITV Play, Metacafe, MSNBC.com, MySpace, NC Interactive, Valve Software, Radio Free Virgin and Xbox Live. For more information, visit www.llnw.com.

Source: Limelight Networks

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