Content delivery platform
Web content service
title: "Content delivery platform" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["computer-networking", "content-management-systems", "website-management"] description: "Web content service" topic_path: "technology/networking" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_platform" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Web content service ::
A content delivery platform (CDP) is a software as a service (SaaS) content service, similar to a content management system (CMS), that utilizes embedded software code to deliver web content. Instead of the installation of software on client servers, a CDP feeds content through embedded code snippets, typically via JavaScript widget, Flash widget or server-side Ajax.
Content delivery platforms are not content delivery networks, which are utilized for large web media and do not depend on embedded software code. A CDP is utilized for all types of web content, even text-based content.
Alternatively, a content delivery platform can be utilized to import a variety of syndicated content into one central location and then re-purposed for web syndication.
The term content delivery platform was coined by Feed.Us software architect John Welborn during a presentation to the Chicago Web Developers Association. |url=http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18629 |title=Reporter's Notebook |publisher=MidwestBusiness.com |accessdate=2008-01-08 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517173708/http://www.midwestbusiness.com/news/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18629 |archivedate=2008-05-17 |url-status=dead
In late 2007, two blog comment services launched utilizing CDP-based services. Intense Debate and Disqus both employ JavaScript widgets to display and collect blog comments on websites.
Notable Content delivery platforms
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