Five years ago this week… Deutsche Bank conducted research recommending the sale of stocks in French broadcaster TF1, Spain’s Mediaset and Atres Media and Germany’s RTL. The report said that outside the UK, ad spending was down across Europe, which knocked off about 10% from anticipated valuations. Most broadcasters felt powerless to respond to the increasingly video-based Google–Facebook advertising duopoly, and changes to their business, like the integration of online programmatic and addressable advertising, modern online UIs, or app analytics on the consumer device, were slow to come. Akamai has opened the doors on three new cloud computing sites (with two more to come later this quarter), marking the first major step in the CDN giant’s drive for distributed workloads.…