Public Facing High-Traffic Silverlight Sites

Question

What sites do you know of that are using Silverlight? This information will help us to decide when to adopt the Silverlight platform.

The sites should be public-facing and be considered high-traffic. (at least 300,000 hits per month).

We are a Microsoft shop and Silverlight is based on .NET, so that is very attractive to us. But my research has turned up only a couple of high-traffic public websites that are using Silverlight: The NBC Olympics website and the Major League Baseball site (which is moving to Flash).

Answer 1

The reason that Major League Baseball switched from Sliverlight to Flash is that a lot of people watch baseball at work (?!?). They had trouble getting Silverlight installed because PCs in a corporate environment are typically locked down and users can't install software on them. But almost all PCs have Flash installed. Article here:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-285784.html

Answer 2

The only other site I could find was CBSSports.com when they used Silverlight to cover the NCAA tournament.

Answer 3

I believe netflix uses silverlight as an option. I'm not a subscriber so I can't confirm.

Answer 4

NBC used it for the Olymipcs.

Answer 5

Setanta sports have launched a interactive video site based on Silverlight. Can't judge on traffic as it only went live this week - but I'd expect it to become pretty high volume

http://setanta-i.com/

Answer 6

The following public-facing sites use Silverlight. I don't have any data to show that they meet your "high-volume" criteria, although I'm sure that NCAA, NBC Olympics, and Microsoft Downloads easily qualify.

• Hard Rock Memorabilia (http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/)
• NCAA March Madness (http://mmod.ncaa.com/)
• NBC 2010 Olympics (http://www.nbcolympics.com)
• Netflix (http://www.netflix.com)
• Smooth HD (http://www.smoothhd.com/)
• Renault Megane (http://www.new-megane.renault.co.uk)
• Microsoft Download Center (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/default.aspx)

For even more, check out the Silverlight Showcase at http://silverlight.net/showcase/.

Answer 7

Another cool silverlight site www.windows4all.com

Answer 8

found another one. LAFitness.com