Fastly and Spain’s professional football association LALIGA announced a partnership that began in 2025 and was publicly disclosed on April 9 2026. The collaboration is designed to deploy Fastly’s edge‑cloud platform to detect and block illegal live‑streaming of LALIGA matches in real time.
LALIGA estimates that piracy costs its clubs between $700 million and $800 million each year. In the 2024/25 season, the league reported a 60 % reduction in piracy within Spain, attributing the success to a comprehensive strategy that includes legal action, education, institutional cooperation, and technology. The new partnership aims to extend these gains beyond Spain and to further reduce unauthorized broadcasts.
Fastly’s anti‑piracy technology relies on an AI‑driven detection system that uses proprietary content signals to identify illegal streams as they appear. By leveraging its edge‑cloud infrastructure, Fastly can intervene at the network level, preventing streams from reaching end users while allowing legitimate viewers to access content without interruption.
Fastly’s financial performance underscores the strategic fit of the partnership. In fiscal 2025, the company posted its first non‑GAAP profitable year, with revenue of $624 million and a 15 % year‑over‑year increase. Q4 2025 revenue rose 23 % to $172.6 million, and the company’s GAAP gross margin reached 61.4 %. Non‑GAAP net income for FY2025 was $19.7 million, compared with a $12.1 million loss the year before. Management guided FY2026 revenue to $700‑$720 million and non‑GAAP operating income to $50‑$60 million, signaling confidence in continued margin expansion and new revenue opportunities.
The partnership positions Fastly to capitalize on its growing security and AI offerings, complementing its enterprise customer base and strengthening its competitive stance against Cloudflare and Akamai. By adding a new revenue channel tied to content protection, Fastly can further diversify its income streams while reinforcing its edge‑cloud platform’s value proposition.
"At LALIGA, we have succeeded in reducing piracy of our streams in Spain by 60% during the 2024/25 season through a comprehensive, end‑to‑end strategy focused on legal, educational, institutional, and technological measures. This success is due in large part to our ecosystem of partners like Fastly, enabling us to continue exploring new and more effective ways to tackle piracy at its root. LALIGA remains firmly committed to putting an end to piracy, and achieving this goal requires the collaboration of all stakeholders working together," said Javier Tebas, President of LALIGA.
"Unlike alternative approaches based on regional blocking, our strategy focuses on precision, letting fans enjoy the game while protecting content from abuse by criminals," said Kelly Shortridge, Chief Product Officer at Fastly.
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