Content delivery refers to the process of distributing digital content—such as images, videos, web pages, or documents—to users across devices and locations. It ensures fast, reliable access through networks or content delivery networks (CDNs), improving user experience by reducing load times and maintaining content availability at scale.
The main purpose of content delivery is to ensure digital content—like websites, videos, and images—reaches users quickly, reliably, and securely. By minimizing load times and optimizing performance across devices and locations, content delivery improves user experience and supports high availability, especially during traffic spikes or global access.
An example of a content delivery network (CDN) is
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets with Dynamic Media. It delivers optimized content through a global CDN, ensuring fast, responsive access to images, videos, and rich media. Other CDN examples include Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon CloudFront, and Fastly.