MEDIA · VIDEO AND LIVE

CDN for Media Companies

Video libraries, short-video catalogues and live channels, delivered from inside the CDN rather than from your origin.

From $5/TB down to $2.50/TB, so 100 TB of delivery is about $415 a month · 14-day testing period on real traffic · $25 monthly minimum waived · Engineer reply within 3 business hours

97%+
VOD segment cache hit
2-4 s
Latency on LL-HLS live
3 regions
One rate in Europe, Asia and America
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Results from teams on BlazingCDN

Three delivery cases from our knowledge base, with the full write-ups one click away.

Software company · installers

98%+ cache hit within 90 minutes of a major release

2 GB installers served from nearby edge nodes worldwide, with resumable downloads and origin load staying flat during peak download windows.

Game studio · patches

Under 3% of patch-day requests reach the origin

A 15 GB patch requested at the same time in Tokyo, Los Angeles, Frankfurt and São Paulo, with cache hit above 97% in the first hour.

OTT provider · VOD

97%+ segment cache hit for VOD

Short TTLs for manifests, long TTLs for segments, and steady segment delivery across every bitrate tier in the ABR ladder.

What 100 TB of video costs

Progressive tiers work like tax brackets: each rate applies only to the traffic inside its range. Requests, HTTPS, custom domains and origin shield are included, and the rate is the same in Europe, Asia and America.
TIER 01

First 5 TB

$5.00 per TB
TIER 02

5 to 25 TB

$4.50 per TB
TIER 03

25 to 100 TB

$4.00 per TB
100 TB a month works out at $415
Each tier is billed only on the traffic inside it, so the tiers add up rather than replace each other. 25 TB is about $115, 500 TB is about $1,815, and above 500 TB a month we quote it for you.

Newsroom clips, cached where your readers are

A short news clip packaged as HLS, six renditions up to 4K, served from Cloud Storage through an Anycast pull zone. Short clips, many viewers, one cache per region.
HLS · Anycast pull zoneTimes Square news clip streamed as HLS through BlazingCDN
1080pQuality·Bitrate·Last segmentBlazingCDNServed from

Six renditions, one manifest

360p to 4K in one HLS ladder. The player starts on Auto and switches as bandwidth changes; pick a fixed quality from the settings icon.

Cached once per region

The first viewer pulls a segment from Cloud Storage; every next viewer in that region gets it from the edge, and your origin stays idle.

Try it in your own player

Copy the manifest URL below into VLC, Safari or any HLS player. Same files, same CDN, no sign-up.
Manifest: https://cdn84906683.blazingcdn.net/times-square/hls/master.m3u8 · Segments: 4 s · Footage: Pexels, free licence

Three shapes of media traffic

Same network, same rate. What changes is how your files sit inside the CDN and which product carries them.

VOD libraries and video portals

Your library is replicated inside the CDN, so your origin can leave the delivery path entirely. Production VOD workloads sustain 97%+ segment cache hit.

Short-video and UGC apps

Millions of 1 to 30 MB clips with algorithmic spikes. A cache warming API pre-positions trending clips, and full libraries sustain 95%+ hit rates end to end.

Live channels and broadcasters

Pre-encoded HLS and DASH with an LL-HLS path in the 2-4 second range, where standard HLS leaves viewers 20-40 seconds behind the action.
CONTENT PROTECTION

Protecting paid content

Media libraries leak through the link and the player, not through the network. Every control below sits on the zone, so it works the same for VOD files and live segments.

Signed URLs

An HMAC signature with an expiry, validated at the edge. When the window closes, the link stops working, and your entitlement logic stays in your own application.

Token auth and IP binding

Bind a URL to one IP, cap how many IPs may use it, and check cookies, standard or extended. Useful when one paid account is shared around.

Referrer, user-agent and geo

Allow and block lists per zone, by country and by source, with a Googlebot bypass so indexable pages stay indexable.

DRM segments and HTTPS

DRM-encrypted segments are delivered and cached encrypted; key delivery and licensing stay on your side. Insecure requests are refused.

Media teams, written up in full

Each one is a full write-up in our knowledge base: what was breaking, what we changed, and what the numbers did afterwards.

OTT provider, multi-region

Playback quality drifted between regions and buffering followed the time zone. In-CDN replication put the same library in every region, so playback stopped depending on which continent the viewer sat in.

Short-video platform

Millions of small clips, and the first second of each one decided whether the viewer stayed. The write-up covers what happened to startup delay once files were served from inside the CDN.

Live sports streaming

Concurrency triples at kickoff and every buffering second costs an ad break. The case covers how the edge absorbed the spike and what it did to ad delivery during the monetised moments.

E-learning platform

Paid courses were being shared outside the paywall. Signed URLs, IP binding and referer checks closed the leak without changing the player or the checkout.

Where to go next

Closer to your exact scenario. Online education runs on the same stack, with signed links for paid courses.

OTT and VoD streaming

TV and online broadcasters

Sport media and live events

Test CDN Speed Across Top Regions

Speed data measured June 2026
Avg. Download Speed
Latency
Test link
Europe
Download Speed
1.12Gb/s
Latency
27 ms
Test link​
Asia
Download Speed
761Mb/s
Latency
47 ms
Test link​
North America
Download Speed
1.11 Gb/s
Latency
24 ms
Test link​
*Download speed and latency may vary depending on the quality of your network connection.

Which product carries your media

Questions buyers ask about CDN delivery for media companies

BlazingCDN delivers video libraries, short-video catalogues, live channels and images for media companies at one rate in the US, Europe and Asia. Pricing runs from $5 per TB down to $2.50 per TB, so 100 TB costs $415 a month (as of October 2026). Media teams can test on real traffic for 14 days.

BlazingCDN charges $1,815 for 500 TB of video delivery in a month (as of October 2026). The bill follows progressive tiers: $5 per TB for the first 5 TB, then $4.50, $4.00 and $3.50 per TB as volume climbs. Every terabyte between 100 TB and 500 TB is billed at $3.50. The same rate applies in the US, Europe and Asia, with no request fees, no regional multipliers and no setup fee.

Media libraries that need files resident on the edge can use Video CDN permanent cache. The first 500 GB is included, then storage costs $0.02 per GB per month. For example, a 3 TB catalogue held in permanent cache pays for 2,500 GB, which is $50 a month on top of delivery. Enterprise terms start from 100 TB a month, and a quote never raises the published price.

BlazingCDN protects paid media with signed URLs that carry an expiry time, so a copied link stops working once the window closes. Token authentication can bind a URL to one viewer IP address. Referrer, user-agent and country rules add a second layer, blocking requests from sites and regions that are not allowed. All delivery runs over HTTPS with TLS 1.3.

DRM-encrypted segments are cached and delivered like any other file, so an existing DRM workflow keeps working unchanged. BlazingCDN adds no separate charge for these controls: signed URLs, purge and real-time statistics are included in the per-TB price. For example, a subscription portal moving 100 TB a month pays $415 (as of October 2026), with access control already inside that figure. Raw logs for auditing suspicious traffic cost $50 per month as an add-on.

BlazingCDN fits live sports when the stream is HLS or DASH and the encoder already produces the renditions. The HLS Streaming CDN caches each segment once per region, then serves the crowd from the edge, so a kickoff spike does not reach the origin. Origin shield adds a single upstream layer, and Anycast routing fails over automatically if a node drops. Average cache hit ratio across the network is 96% or higher.

Some limits matter for sports platforms. BlazingCDN does not transcode, so the encoder or packager stays in your stack. WebSockets, edge compute and HTTP/3 are not offered, which means live chat or betting widgets need a separate service. Latency measured June 2026 on a 100 MB HTTPS download was 27 ms in Europe, 24 ms in North America and 47 ms in Asia.

BlazingCDN can run as a second CDN behind your DNS, taking a weighted share such as 10% of traffic while the current provider keeps the rest. A 14-day testing period runs on real production traffic, so newsroom clips or one VOD section can be measured before any wider switch. Onboarding takes about one hour with an engineer, and a KYC check is completed before production traffic starts.

The origin stays where it is, because BlazingCDN pulls and caches from your existing storage. For example, a broadcaster can send 10% of a 200 TB month, roughly 20 TB, and compare hit ratio and throughput in real-time statistics or Prometheus metrics. Rolling back means changing the DNS weight. After the test, billing is pay as you go or monthly, with a $25 monthly minimum and no long-term contract (as of October 2026).

BlazingCDN splits media delivery across three products: Video CDN for on-demand libraries, HLS Streaming CDN for live channels, and Anycast CDN for images and general assets. All three bill on the same per-TB tiers, from $5 down to $2.50 per TB (as of October 2026). Video CDN adds permanent cache, so a library can stay on the edge instead of returning to the origin after eviction.

The HLS Streaming CDN handles manifests and segments with separate cache rules: short TTLs for manifests, long TTLs for segments. Anycast CDN covers thumbnails, posters and article images, and Image Processing is included at no extra charge, so resizing needs no separate service. Files up to 50 GB are supported, which covers raw archives and mezzanine masters. An engineer can map an existing setup to these products during the one-hour onboarding.

Up to 60% off for high-volume projects

Volume pricing for 100 TB+ projects.