Content Delivery Network Market Size & Share Analysis - Growth Trends & Forecasts (2025 - 2030)

The Report Covers Content Delivery Network (CDN) Market Technology Market is Segmented by Offering (Solutions and Services), Content Type (Video CDN and Non-Video CDN), End-User (Media and Entertainment, Online Gaming, E-Commerce, Healthcare, BFSI, Education and Research, and Advertising), Service-Provider Type (Traditional/Telco CDN, Cloud/Hyper-scale CDN, and Peer-To-Peer CDN), and Geography.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Market Size and Share

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Content Delivery Network (CDN) Market Analysis by Mordor Intelligence

The content delivery network market is valued at USD 26.47 billion in 2025 and is forecast to reach USD 45.13 billion by 2030 at an 11.26% CAGR, reflecting rapid enterprise migration to edge-native architectures and unrelenting 4K/8K video traffic growth. A surge in artificial-intelligence-driven traffic steering is lowering egress costs for hyperscale’s, while Zero-Trust security bundles embedded in delivery stacks are turning CDNs into full-stack application-protection platforms. Peer-to-peer architectures and network-as-code APIs are expanding delivery options and challenging incumbent models as operators open programmable capabilities to developers. Regional dynamics favor Asia-Pacific, where large-scale data-center buildouts and 5G rollouts underpin the fastest global growth, yet North America retains scale advantages through entrenched hyperscale presence. Intensifying power-availability constraints near dense metro clusters and the decision by several OTT giants to insource delivery infrastructure form the primary growth headwinds to 2030.

Key Report Takeaways

  • By offering, Solutions led with 56.2% of content delivery network market share in 2024, while Services are projected to expand at an 18.20% CAGR through 2030.
  • By content type, Video held 63.8% revenue share in 2024; non-video is poised for an 18.65% CAGR to 2030. 
  • By end user, Media & Entertainment accounted for 36.9% of content delivery network market size in 2024, yet Gaming is forecast to grow at 21.40% CAGR. 
  • By service-provider type, Traditional / Telco operators controlled 45.21% share in 2024, whereas Peer-to-Peer models record the steepest 21.10% CAGR to 2030. 
  • By geography, North America held 43.67% of content delivery network market share in 2024, and Asia-Pacific is advancing at an 18.60% CAGR to 2030.

Segment Analysis

By Offering: Services Accelerate Despite Solutions Dominance

Solutions generated 56.2% of 2024 revenue, mirroring enterprise appetite for integrated platforms covering delivery, security and analytics within the content delivery network market. Professional and managed offerings, however, grow 18.20% annually as organizations lacking in-house expertise outsource multi-CDN orchestration and edge-application tuning. 

Services adoption rises with each new latency-sensitive workload that demands continual optimization at the edge. Network-API integration, Zero-Trust rollout and AI traffic-model retraining are labor-intensive tasks better handled by skilled partners. As a result, services contributions to content delivery network market size are expected to double by 2030, creating fresh cross-sell pathways for incumbents.

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By Content Type: Non-Video Surges on API Economy Growth

Video retained 63.8% of 2024 spending thanks to bandwidth intensity and continued streaming expansion. Yet API-driven applications, real-time analytics and software-update distribution accelerate Non-Video revenue at 18.65% CAGR. 

Edge databases and global data networks move stateful workloads nearer to users, propelling demand for dynamic object caching and real-time routing. Gaming platforms alone require 10–20 Mbps sustained throughput, steepening the traffic curve outside traditional video and driving incremental gains in content delivery network market size through 2030.

By End User: Gaming Outpaces Traditional Media Growth

Media and Entertainment held 36.9% of spending last year, but cloud gaming is the standout, advancing 21.40% annually as interactive experiences move to server-side rendering. 

Developers rank reliability and ultra-low latency above cost, steering workloads toward premium multi-PoP footprints. Concurrently, e-commerce and telehealth lean on encrypted edge capabilities for personalized pages and diagnostic imaging, sustaining diverse use-case breadth inside the content delivery network market.

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By Service-Provider Type: Peer-to-Peer Disrupts Centralized Models

Traditional carriers still control 45.21% of global delivery revenue, leveraging proximity to last-mile infrastructure and bundled connectivity[2]GSMA, “Open Gateway Initiative Whitepaper,” gsma.com. Peer-to-Peer models, however, scale at 21.10% CAGR by harnessing idle capacity on end-devices and micro-edges to cut upstream bandwidth. 

Open-gateway APIs let developers assemble composite routes spanning multiple operators, shrinking vendor lock-in and injecting new competitive pressure. Resulting diversification supports a resilient, federated topology that enhances the content delivery network market’s long-term agility.

Geography Analysis

North America’s mature backbone, abundant IXPs and entrenched OTT ecosystem grant it scale advantages that keep average PoP utilization above 60% despite rising operating costs. Sustained investment in 400 Gbps routing and AI-accelerated packet processing ensures the region remains a launchpad for advanced security-integrated services. The presence of three hyperscalers headquartered in the United States preserves technology-standards leadership and sustains developer mindshare within the content delivery network market.

Asia-Pacific’s growth story hinges on demographic scale and aggressive digital-infrastructure spending. China alone added more hyperscale data-center megawatts than North America in 2024, while India and ASEAN members channel sovereign-fund capital into submarine-cable and terrestrial fiber projects. Regional CDNs often partner with local carriers to meet regulatory localization rules and to traverse complex last-mile topologies dominated by mobile broadband. The acceleration lifts both traditional telco CDNs and cloud-native edge platforms, creating a multi-layered competitive field.

Europe balances data-sovereignty imperatives with energy-efficiency targets. Operators in Frankfurt, Amsterdam and London have adopted heat-re-use schemes and renewables-sourcing agreements to secure grid approvals. The Digital Markets Act further nudges content providers to negotiate fair-share contributions for peak-time traffic. While growth is slower than in APAC, higher ARPU and tightening latency requirements for fintech and Industrie 4.0 workloads underpin healthy margins in the region’s content delivery network market.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Market CAGR (%), Growth Rate by Region
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Competitive Landscape

Market leaders pursue horizontal consolidation and vertical integration. Akamai’s USD 900 million Linode purchase added developer-centric cloud compute, while its 2024 acquisition of Edgio customer contracts brought incremental delivery and security revenue. Cloudflare expands programmable edge-workers, servicing real-time AI inference without GPU hardware. Lumen and Google Cloud combine private fiber and managed WAN to shorten data-migration paths for hybrid enterprises[3]Lumen Technologies, “Lumen-Google Cloud Strategic Alliance Fact Sheet,” lumen.com.

Disruptive entrants target orchestration layers rather than physical PoPs. Multi-CDN SaaS platforms, exemplified by IO River, let buyers broker traffic across two or more networks in real time, mitigating vendor lock-in risks. Telecom alliances are building a federated API exchange—Aduna—to monetize quality-on-demand features such as under-one-second jitter guarantees and location-aware routing. These APIs open fresh revenue streams but also amplify competitive complexity as developers weigh traditional CDNs against direct network programmability.

Sustainability pressure intensifies differentiation. Providers publicize power-usage-effectiveness under 1.2 and deploy liquid cooling for AI accelerators positioned at edge facilities. Operators able to show verified-recycled-heat schemes gain preferential grid permits in Europe. Vendors lacking credible decarbonization roadmaps risk procurement exclusion, especially among multinational enterprises with net-zero pledges tied to scope-3 emissions.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) Industry Leaders

  1. Amazon Web Services Inc. (Amazon.com Inc.)

  2. Akamai Technologies Inc.

  3. Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)

  4. Cloudflare Inc.

  5. Edgio Inc.

  6. *Disclaimer: Major Players sorted in no particular order
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Recent Industry Developments

  • April 2025: Lumen Technologies and Google Cloud activated 400 Gbps private fiber links at 50,000 sites to support AI workloads and low-latency edge services.
  • February 2025: Fastly introduced AI Accelerator, using edge semantic caching to cut OpenAI API calls and latency for developers.
  • February 2025: Akamai signed a USD 100 million multi-year deal to supply full-stack cloud computing and security services to a global technology firm.
  • January 2025: Akamai confirmed its mainland-China CDN exit by June 2026, coordinating customer migration via Tencent Cloud and Wangsu.

Table of Contents for Content Delivery Network (CDN) Industry Report

1. INTRODUCTION

  • 1.1 Study Assumptions and Market Definition
  • 1.2 Scope of the Study

2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

4. MARKET LANDSCAPE

  • 4.1 Market Overview
  • 4.2 Market Drivers
    • 4.2.1 Explosion of OTT video traffic and 4K/8K adoption
    • 4.2.2 Proliferation of edge-native, low-latency use-cases (AR/VR, cloud gaming)
    • 4.2.3 Integration of Zero-Trust and WAAP security bundles in CDN stacks
    • 4.2.4 AI-optimised traffic-routing reducing egress bills for hyperscalers
    • 4.2.5 Telco network-API exposure accelerating "network-as-code" CDNs
    • 4.2.6 Demand-response incentives for power-hungry PoPs amid grid constraints
  • 4.3 Market Restraints
    • 4.3.1 Large OTTs in-sourcing DIY CDNs
    • 4.3.2 Commodity pricing pressure and margin squeeze
    • 4.3.3 Last-mile bandwidth bottlenecks in emerging economies
    • 4.3.4 Rising data-centre energy caps and sustainability mandates
  • 4.4 Evaluation of Critical Regulatory Framework
  • 4.5 Technological Outlook
  • 4.6 Porter's Five Forces
    • 4.6.1 Bargaining Power of Suppliers
    • 4.6.2 Bargaining Power of Buyers
    • 4.6.3 Threat of New Entrants
    • 4.6.4 Threat of Substitutes
    • 4.6.5 Competitive Rivalry
  • 4.7 Impact Assessment of Key Stakeholders
  • 4.8 Key Use Cases and Case Studies
  • 4.9 Impact on Macroeconomic Factors of the Market
  • 4.10 Investment Analysis

5. MARKET SEGMENTATION

  • 5.1 By Offering
    • 5.1.1 Solutions
    • 5.1.2 Services
  • 5.2 By Content Type
    • 5.2.1 Video CDN
    • 5.2.2 Non-Video CDN
  • 5.3 By End User
    • 5.3.1 Media and Entertainment
    • 5.3.2 Online Gaming
    • 5.3.3 E-commerce
    • 5.3.4 Healthcare
    • 5.3.5 BFSI
    • 5.3.6 Education and Research
    • 5.3.7 Advertising
  • 5.4 By Service-Provider Type
    • 5.4.1 Traditional/Telco CDN
    • 5.4.2 Cloud/Hyper-scale CDN
    • 5.4.3 Peer-to-Peer CDN
  • 5.5 By Geography
    • 5.5.1 North America
    • 5.5.1.1 United States
    • 5.5.1.2 Canada
    • 5.5.1.3 Mexico
    • 5.5.2 South America
    • 5.5.2.1 Brazil
    • 5.5.2.2 Argentina
    • 5.5.2.3 Rest of South America
    • 5.5.3 Europe
    • 5.5.3.1 United Kingdom
    • 5.5.3.2 Germany
    • 5.5.3.3 France
    • 5.5.3.4 Italy
    • 5.5.3.5 Spain
    • 5.5.3.6 Nordics
    • 5.5.3.7 Rest of Europe
    • 5.5.4 Middle East and Africa
    • 5.5.4.1 Middle East
    • 5.5.4.1.1 Saudi Arabia
    • 5.5.4.1.2 United Arab Emirates
    • 5.5.4.1.3 Turkey
    • 5.5.4.1.4 Rest of Middle East
    • 5.5.4.2 Africa
    • 5.5.4.2.1 South Africa
    • 5.5.4.2.2 Egypt
    • 5.5.4.2.3 Nigeria
    • 5.5.4.2.4 Rest of Africa
    • 5.5.5 Asia-Pacific
    • 5.5.5.1 China
    • 5.5.5.2 India
    • 5.5.5.3 Japan
    • 5.5.5.4 South Korea
    • 5.5.5.5 ASEAN
    • 5.5.5.6 Australia
    • 5.5.5.7 New Zealand
    • 5.5.5.8 Rest of Asia-Pacific

6. COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

  • 6.1 Market Concentration
  • 6.2 Strategic Moves
  • 6.3 Market Share Analysis
  • 6.4 Company Profiles (includes Global level Overview, Market level overview, Core Segments, Financials as available, Strategic Information, Market Rank/Share for key companies, Products and Services, and Recent Developments)
    • 6.4.1 Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    • 6.4.2 Amazon Web Services, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
    • 6.4.3 Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
    • 6.4.4 Cloudflare, Inc.
    • 6.4.5 Fastly, Inc.
    • 6.4.6 Microsoft Corporation
    • 6.4.7 Edgio, Inc.
    • 6.4.8 CDNetworks Co., Ltd.
    • 6.4.9 Verizon Communications Inc.
    • 6.4.10 ATandT Inc.
    • 6.4.11 Tata Communications Limited
    • 6.4.12 Deutsche Telekom AG
    • 6.4.13 StackPath, LLC
    • 6.4.14 Tencent Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
    • 6.4.15 Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Group Holding Limited)
    • 6.4.16 Limelight Networks Japan K.K.
    • 6.4.17 Quantil, Inc.
    • 6.4.18 Rackspace Technology, Inc.
    • 6.4.19 G-Core Labs S.A.
    • 6.4.20 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

7. MARKET OPPORTUNITIES AND FUTURE OUTLOOK

  • 7.1 White-space and Unmet-need Assessment
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Global Content Delivery Network (CDN) Market Report Scope

A content delivery network (CDN) is comprised of interconnected servers that deliver content securely. To enhance speed and connectivity, CDNs strategically position servers at network exchange points. The content delivery network is defined based on the revenues generated from the solutions and services used at various ends globally. The analysis is based on the market insights captured through secondary research and the primaries. The market also covers the major factors impacting the market’s growth in terms of drivers and restraints.

The content delivery network (CDN) market is segmented by solution and service (media delivery, cloud security, and web performance), end user (media and entertainment, advertising, e-commerce, healthcare, business and financial services, research and education, and other end users), and geography (North America (United States and Canada), Europe (Germany, United Kingdom, France, and Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, and Rest of Latin America), and Middle East and Africa (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Rest of Middle East & Africa)). The market size and forecasts are provided in terms of value (USD) for all the above segments.

By Offering Solutions
Services
By Content Type Video CDN
Non-Video CDN
By End User Media and Entertainment
Online Gaming
E-commerce
Healthcare
BFSI
Education and Research
Advertising
By Service-Provider Type Traditional/Telco CDN
Cloud/Hyper-scale CDN
Peer-to-Peer CDN
By Geography North America United States
Canada
Mexico
South America Brazil
Argentina
Rest of South America
Europe United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Nordics
Rest of Europe
Middle East and Africa Middle East Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Turkey
Rest of Middle East
Africa South Africa
Egypt
Nigeria
Rest of Africa
Asia-Pacific China
India
Japan
South Korea
ASEAN
Australia
New Zealand
Rest of Asia-Pacific
By Offering
Solutions
Services
By Content Type
Video CDN
Non-Video CDN
By End User
Media and Entertainment
Online Gaming
E-commerce
Healthcare
BFSI
Education and Research
Advertising
By Service-Provider Type
Traditional/Telco CDN
Cloud/Hyper-scale CDN
Peer-to-Peer CDN
By Geography
North America United States
Canada
Mexico
South America Brazil
Argentina
Rest of South America
Europe United Kingdom
Germany
France
Italy
Spain
Nordics
Rest of Europe
Middle East and Africa Middle East Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Turkey
Rest of Middle East
Africa South Africa
Egypt
Nigeria
Rest of Africa
Asia-Pacific China
India
Japan
South Korea
ASEAN
Australia
New Zealand
Rest of Asia-Pacific
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Key Questions Answered in the Report

What is the current size of the content delivery network market?

The content delivery network market size stands at USD 26.47 billion in 2025, with an 11.26% CAGR projected to 2030.

Which region is growing the fastest in CDN adoption?

Asia-Pacific leads growth with an 18.60% CAGR as massive cloud and 5G investments amplify low-latency traffic needs.

Why are services growing faster than solutions in CDN?

Enterprises often lack in-house skills for multi-CDN orchestration and Zero-Trust deployment, driving an 18.20% CAGR in managed and professional services revenue.

How are OTT platforms affecting third-party CDN revenue?

Large streamers like Netflix increasingly run proprietary delivery networks, trimming third-party volumes and applying pricing pressure, reducing CAGR potential by an estimated 1.8%.

What role does AI play in modern CDN operations?

AI-driven routing engines cut egress charges by up to 30% and boost performance during demand spikes, making them a key differentiator among leading vendors.

Are sustainability mandates impacting CDN expansion?

Yes, strict power-availability caps in Europe and North America lengthen build cycles and push operators toward renewable-powered PoPs and advanced cooling solutions, tempering long-term capacity growth.

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