Every play costs
you money.

Sudden lets viewers help deliver video to one another, so you spend less on delivery, while keeping your existing player, CDN, and workflow.

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Your existing path sends video through the CDN to a viewer. With Sudden, the CDN remains available while viewers can provide additional delivery paths to more viewers.

Your existing infrastructure

With Sudden

Customer case study

They didn’t replace their CDN. They added Sudden.

AB Films TVDRM-protected · In production

One service worker added to a DRM-protected catalogue on CloudFront. Nothing upstream changed. Both issues that surfaced were on the application side.

  • No player migration
  • No origin changes
  • No CDN replacement
Read the technical case study

Existing stack · unchanged

Existing stack intact. Sudden added alongside.Simplified

How it works

A small integration, not a migration.

  1. 01

    Add Sudden

    Add the client and service worker to your site to enable peer delivery.

  2. 02

    Sudden finds opportunities for peer delivery

    When another viewer can efficiently help deliver the video, Sudden can use that path.

  3. 03

    Your existing infrastructure remains available

    When peer delivery isn’t available, video continues through your existing delivery infrastructure.

Read the integration guide (opens in a new tab)

See the compatibility section of the documentation (opens in a new tab) for current browser and format support.

For coding agents

Give your agent the right context.

Install the Sudden skill (opens in a new tab) so your agent can assess how Sudden fits into your stack and what integration would involve, then configure and implement it when you’re ready.

Installation command

npx skills add sudden-network/skills
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Every viewer is capacity, not load.

Normally, every new viewer is one more stream to pay for. With Sudden, when people watch the same thing at the same moment, each viewer can help serve the next. The bigger the audience, the more capacity you have.

TodayMore viewersMore loadHigher delivery costs
With SuddenMore viewersMore capacityLower delivery cost

Built for videos watched in parallel.

The more viewers watch the same video at the same time, the more Sudden can deliver. If video delivery is a meaningful line item, it’s worth measuring.

  • Media & entertainment
  • Sports
  • Gaming
  • Consumer video
  • Digital publishers
  • Other high-volume video

The Sudden blog

The economics of getting video to viewers.

Video is getting cheaper to create. Delivering it still costs money. We explore the economics, technology, and business of getting video to viewers.

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Every play costs you money.

We’ll measure what Sudden saves against your own CDN bill, not our dashboard.

Request pilot accessNo subscription required for the pilot. Pay based on measured savings.