Google Cloud’s Media CDN lets companies build on the network that keeps YouTube running

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All of the companies that offer media streaming of movies and TV shows pale in comparison to the amount of video streams that YouTube delivers every single day. Media companies will be able to use the Media CDN for their own streaming experiences, thanks to the general availability of the network. None of the competitors can point to the service that many people use every day to help sell their products.

Two years ago, we noted that the world is streaming more video than ever, and things have not slowed down since. The network that keeps the videos streaming is what makes the entire thing work, as well as it has since the purchase of the video platform by the company.

The same infrastructure that Google has built over the last decade to serve YouTube content to over 2 billion users is now being used to deliver media at scale to Google Cloud customers with Media.

There is an occasional outage on YouTube. If you want to keep things running, you need to build the nextNetflix, which will operate on a network of server that claims to reach over 200 countries and more than 1,300 cities around the globe. It also includes support for modern transport protocols like QUIC to use less data and deliver content smoothly, as well as the APIs media companies use to serve advertisements, and support new platforms.