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24 July 2008: CDNetworks Media Live Streaming service delivers first live P2P that delivers commercially tested, high-quality, and globally available live Internet broadcasting. View article

1 June 2008: Copenhagen/Geneva – As Europe settles down after an intensely followed Eurovision Song Contest, the impressive results from this year’s webcast reveals record-breaking audience figures. With viewers from more than 163 countries - many of which were not broadcasting the event - the TV-quality feed from Octoshape was a major hit. The online ESC-TV platform has served more than 1.5 million sessions and more than 36 million minutes were consumed. View article

21 May 2008: Kicking off this year’s Eurovision Song Contest with a live webcast from the first semi-final, Octoshape served more than 32 000 users with a high-quality live feed. And as a first this year, the entire show is instantly made available to users as an on-demand stream. View article

18. April 2008: Polish broadcaster TVPs online TV-section iTVP has joined the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio with the online-exclusive TV channel Arts & Entertainment. Also iTVP and Octoshape will be broadcasting a number of events in High-quality. View article

14. April 2008: Octoshape Early Adopter of Keynote’s Real-Time Global Internet Performance Analysis to Monitor Its Web Performance and Customer Experience View article

31. March 2008: Octoshape and Akamai are official sponsors for the DIMACS Workshop in Honor of Bob Tarjan's 60th Birthday. Octoshape co-founders Stephen Alstrup and Theis Rauhe are co-authering one of the few articles that are presented at the workshop. View article

15. January 2008: Today the Eurovision team releases a new and updated version of the eurovision.tv website. Using the latest technologies like Octoshape, the new website will offer much more exciting content. View article

10. January 2008: German radio Station Delta Radio has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio. View article

9. January 2008: Octoshape will facilitate NRK’s webcasting of seven brand new episode of the hit comedy show “Uti vår hage”. Just as soon as the televised episode leaves the screen the webcast will offer an additional hour of exclusive live backstage coverage of the crew and cast of the show. View article

8. December 2007: Again this year, Octoshape will power the live webcast of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest View article

6. December 2007: The Frankfurt-based public broadcaster from Germany - Hessische Rundfunk - expands the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio with both a Radio and a TV channel. View article

20. November 2007: The D/P2P working group - a group of EBU members and contractors that are driving the development of P2P-streaming systems forward - held their 5th meeting at Octoshape HQ. View article

9.-12. August 2007: Excited gaming fans can watch the e-stars Seoul 2007 from Seoul, Korea in high quality with Octoshape and the Korean broadcaster with worldwide network, arirang. View article

6. August 2007: 20 000 unique viewers tuned in for the near-HD Tour de France-webcast by Belgian broadcaster VRT. Octoshape technology was behind the successful high-quality webcast. View article

3. - 4. August 2007: This year the renowned game developer Blizzard Entertainment will once again gather fans and international press at BlizzCon ‘07. Here they will be presenting their latest games and inviting the best players from all over the world to compete in an exclusive tournament. View article

7. - 29. July 2007: Octoshape is again pushing the limits of live streaming with this year’s webcast of the Tour de France. In cooperation with Belgian broadcaster VRT, Belgian viewers are offered a high-quality live video feed with Octoshape. View article

7. July 2007: Saturday the 7th of July 2007 sees the culmination of one of the biggest global events to date. The search for the new 7 wonders of the world has been on since the turn of the millennium and on 07.07.07 they’re finally announced. Audiences around the world will be able to take part in this exciting ceremony with a high-quality Octoshape live stream. View article

5. July 2007: Octoshape’s unique source signal software will be employed by Chinese broadcaster GamesTV to transport live coverage from Paris to their television viewers in China. In other words, a live television feed across the globe with no need for a satellite link. View article

5.-6. July 2007: $180,000 is on the line when 750 finalists from more than 51 countries gather for the Electronic Sports World Cup in Paris, France. GIGA 2 will be onsite with extensive live coverage of the four-day event that will be broadcast worldwide by Octoshape. View article

22.-24. June 2007: This weekend, some of the best Warcraft players of the world will gather in the Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Germany, for this year’s Intel & Blizzard Warcraft Weekend. Octoshape will broadcast from the event in cooperation with GIGA television. View article

20. June 2007: Octoshape estimates to have reached more than a quarter million people via their live webcast of the 2007 Eurovision Song Contest. View article

1.-3. June 2007: Friday, June 1st, this year’s Rock am Ring music festival will kick off at the Nürburgring racetrack in Nürburg, Germany. As always, the WDR’s Rockpalast team is on site to deliver extensive coverage of the festival. And this year it will be streamed live to the world in high quality by Octoshape. View article

12. May 2007: On 10th of May the preliminary rounds of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will kick off in Helsinki Finland. Live coverage by ESC-TV is available via Octoshape from day one. View article

25. April 2007: This year the Danish Broadcasting corporation (DR) holds the exclusive webcasting rights in Denmark for the UEFA Cup finals, and have decided to use Octoshape services to distribute the mathces. As the finals are not broadcast on any of the national television channels, the finals are only available to the Danish public via webcast. View article

10. April 2007: We at Octoshape are proud to announce the availability of additional radio and television channels for Octoshape users. View article

28. March 2007: The NGL ONE 2006/2007 finals, played out at the eSports convention - in Berlin, Germany - sets the stage for the newest initiative of the leader in large scale live streaming solutions, Octoshape. The NGL ONE Finals - taking place at the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, Berlin's new heart - is the premier event covered by OctoshapeTV. Matches will be shown from Friday, March 30th till Sunday, April 1st, being commented in both English and German. Both languages are offered in 800 and 400 kbits. View article

24. February 2007: The Intel CS:Source Invitational hosted by GotFrag and broadcast using Octoshape technology, takes place today with the top four North American CS:Source teams participating. View article

25. January 2007: From January 25-28, 2007 the world’s 16 best Warcraft III players will compete at Cologne's Mediapark for the Warcraft III Season 4 Global Finals powered by Intel®. At the same time, the ESL WC3L Series Finals (Warcraft III League) will bring the best 4 Warcraft III teams on the stage. This Warcraft III festival will be covered by GIGA, the European broadcasting station for games, eSports and lifestyle, bringing this event live and exclusively to the World's eSports audience. View article

18. January 2007: SixHits has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio. SixHits is a hit radio station, playing all the hits, all the time View article

January 5-7 2007: January 5th through January 7th 2007, Octoshape will be broadcasting the SourceRadio live coverage of the DC-LAN Winter 2007 Event. View article

2. December 2006: Geneva/Copenhagen, 8 September 2006 - The fourth annual Junior Eurovision Song Contest will be streamed live over the internet through ESC-TV, using Octoshape's peer-to-peer technology (P2P). View article

December 16-20 2006: In cooperation with GotFrag TV, Octoshape will be streaming several events from the Cyberathlete Professional League championships 2006. View article

6. December 2006: Octoshape exhibits at NAB 2007, in Las Vegas, United States, April 16-19 2007, Booth C3147 View article

12.-14. November 2006: Octoshape will be exhibiting at the NAB European Radio Conference, in Rome, Italy. View article

18. October 2006: More than 20 high quality (128 – 192 Kbps) radio streams are now available via the Octoshape live streaming technology. Listeners can choose from a multitude of channels, from all over Europe and the United States. View article

18. October 2006: From 14th to 21st October 2006, Prix Europa invited the best European television-, radio- and Internet productions as well as their makers and managers to Berlin for a week of festival and competition. On October 14th the event was kicked off with an opening concert by Portuguese World Music group Gaiteros de Lisboa. View article

14. October 2006: From 14 to 21 October 2006 Prix Europa invites the best European television-, radio- and Internet productions aswell as their makers and managers to Berlin for a week of festival and competition. View article

11. September, 2006: The International Broadcasting Convention 2006, will feature a presentation by Octoshape CEO, Stephen Alstrup View article

4. August 2006: Playdio has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

4. August 2006: Nederhop.nl has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

31. August 2006: Raddio.es has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

26.-28. August 2006: Delivering live streaming from the World Cyber Games UK Final View article

25.-27. August 2006: Delivering live streaming from the NGL One finals View article

25. August, 2006: eSports Media group and Octshape join forces together with Radio Inside The Game ( ITG ) delivering live streaming from the NGL finals, Kode5 Quake4 finals, i28 and World Cyber Games UK finals this weekend 25th – 27th View article

28. June 2006: Gogirl has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

15. June 2006: Radio Paradise has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

8. June, 2006: This year, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) introduced Eurovision Song Contest-TV (ESC-TV) to deliver live streaming over the Internet from the European Song Contest. View article

3. May 2006: Radio Netherlands: World Press Freedom Day event. View article

April 2006: DW-TV's program is now available in an optimized Octoshape version on the Deutsche Welle Web site, DW-WORLD.DE. View article

26. April 2006 - 29. April 2006: Octoshape is Live Webcasting the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships Div III from Reykjavik, Iceland. View article

31. August 2006: Maxxima and Lemixx have been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

21. April 2006 - 2. May 2006: The World eSports Games Masters, held this year in Hangzhou, China, is being live streamed with Octoshape. View article

14. April 2006: Smoothlounge.com has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

21. March 2006: EBU and Octoshape are launching the new Eurovision Song Contest TV (ESC-TV). View article

6. March 2006: Smoothjazz.com has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

6. February 2006: Club 921 80s radio has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

8. December 2005: Rise FM has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

10. November 2005: WMSL-UK has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

08. November 2005: MplusM FM has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

5. November 2005: HHUK radio has been added to the Octoshape broadcaster portfolio View article

14. October 2005: On Saturday the 15 at 8 pm (CET) EBU and Octoshape live stream the opening concert of PRIX EUROPA 2005. View article