Alternatively, content delivery platforms create and syndicate content remotely, acting like hosted content management systems. Alternative technologies for content delivery include peer-to-peer file sharing technologies.
Specialist networks known as content delivery networks help distribute content over the Internet by ensuring both high availability and high performance. In contrast, fully downloading content to a hard drive or other forms of storage media may allow offline access in the future. Streaming involves downloading and using content at a user's request, or "on-demand", rather than allowing a user to store it permanently. Ĭontent distributed online may be streamed or downloaded, and often consists of books, films and television programs, music, software, and video games.
With the advancement of network bandwidth capabilities, online distribution became prominent in the 21st century, with prominent platforms such as Amazon Video, and Netflix's streaming service starting in 2007. The term online distribution is typically applied to freestanding products downloadable add-ons for other products are more commonly known as downloadable content.
The term is generally used to describe distribution over an online delivery medium, such as the Internet, thus bypassing physical distribution methods, such as paper, optical discs, and VHS videocassettes. Digital distribution, also referred to as content delivery, online distribution, or electronic software distribution, among others, is the delivery or distribution of digital media content such as audio, video, e-books, video games, and other software.
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