For the first time in its 25-year history, Akamai has hit the $1 billion revenue mark in a single quarter in Q3 2024, driven by the company’s pivot into Security and Compute. While Akamai’s CDN business remains a prominent player in content delivery, it is the shift toward media-centric compute workflows that is taking center stage. Media workflows are now powering the lion’s share of compute sales across all verticals, according to CEO Dr. Tom Leighton, with Akamai Connected Cloud bolstered by an extensive ISV (independent software vendor) partner network. The platform spans live encoding, transcoding, video packaging, WebRTC, digital asset management, and server-side ad insertion—essentially everything media companies need to streamline and expand operations. Akamai’s growing prowess in areas…