Five years ago this week… The CDN Alliance emerged as an industry body aimed at improving collaboration and education across the critical content delivery network ecosystem. The launch followed a series of high-profile outages affecting major providers including Akamai, Fastly and Cloudflare, which exposed how dependent the internet had become on a small number of CDNs. Even with a common goal to improve transparency, standards and understanding, the non-profit faced early criticism. Just five years later, the CDN Alliance will wind down before the end of this year. Just one working group remains, and will continue to operate independently of the CDN Alliance. M6 rides World Cup streaming boost: Broadcaster M6 said its Fifa World Cup 2026 coverage reached 94% of the French population, with M6 becoming the country’s top national channel during the tournament. M6+ added 4.2 million accounts, reached 11 million unique users and delivered…