Worldwide Content Delivery Networks Market Shares, 2024: Shifting Competitive Landscape Due to Security Services and Edge Compute

This IDC study provides the 2024 shares of the worldwide commercial CDN vendors. The document covers the market shares of key CDN providers and the "other" category. It includes information about revenue for key segments in the CDN market - namely, over-the-top (OTT) video, web, email and data, online gaming, file sharing, security services, and edge computing. The document reviews the main structural changes underway in the market and assesses how key players have benefited (or failed to benefit) from these changes. It also offers short-term and midterm guidance for vendors."The CDN is undergoing a transformation journey from dependence on video streaming as the growth engine toward security and edge delivery services. This will impact the longer-term competitive landscape and relative market shares of these players," says Ghassan Abdo, research VP, Worldwide Telecom. "Success will depend on navigating this transformation and leveraging opportunities in AI, especially inferencing at the edge."