Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior: Inferring Causality using Quasi-Experimental Designs.   Watch Presentation Download Paper   Download Presentation

1. • NPR Morning Edition: In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast Is Never Fast Enough
   

2. •UMass Press Release: UMass Amherst Computer Science Research Quantifies How Online Video Stream Quality Affects Viewer Behavior
   

3. •Boston Globe: Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient
   

4. •CNN: Online viewers ditch slow-loading video after 2 seconds
   

5. •Science Daily: How Online Video Stream Quality Affects Viewer Behavior
   

6. •GigaOm: Online viewers start leaving if video doesn’t play in 2 seconds, says study
   

7. •Boston Globe: MIT grad led team that built faster YouTube player
   

8. •News India Times: Online Video Speed Affects Viewer Behavior, Says Computer Scientist.
   

9. •Broadcast Engineering: Is streaming TV worth the wait?
   

10. •India Abroad: Despair when a video buffers? Ramesh Sitaraman has some answers
    

11. •Akamai Blog: New Video Quality Study Examines Causes of Viewer Behavior
    

12. •PC Magazine: Study: Online Video Viewers Start Leaving After Waiting Two Seconds
    

13. • Hindustan Times: Internet video viewers have a two-second attention span
    

14. • The Verge: Study: viewers have no patience for buffering, abandon videos after two seconds of waiting
    

15. • Media Post: Study: Viewers Only Wait Two Seconds for Online Video to Start
    

16. •CNET: Viewers give up on online video after two seconds of loading
    

17. •Broadcast Engineering: Research quantifies how video stream quality affects viewer behavior
    

18. •Slashdot: Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study
    

19. •Other Coverage: Sina.com, Xinhua, Yahoo News, SF Chronicle
    

Using Batteries to Reduce the Power Costs of Internet-Scale Distributed Systems.

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1. • Giga OM: Batteries should be part of the Internet Infrastructure
   

2. • Akamai Blog: Batteries Included: A Leaner and Greener Internet using  Smart Batteries
   

The Akamai Network: A Platform for High-Performance Internet Applications.

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1. •GigaOM: Inside Akamai and the scary future of streaming video
   

2. •High Scalabilty: Paper: The Akamai Network - 61,000 Servers, 1,000 Networks, 70 Countries
   

3. •ReadWrite: Traffic From Streaming Web Video Expected to Grow by at Least 1300%