{{Short description|American Webcam network}} {{Infobox website | name = EarthCam | logo = EarthCam logo.svg | screenshot = EarthCam in Temple Bar, Dublin.jpg | caption = An EarthCam in Dublin, Ireland | url = {{URL|earthcam.com}} | commercial = Yes | type = Webcam Network | registration = Optional | language = English | owner = Brian Cury | author = Brian Cury | launch_date = {{start date and age|1996|03|27}} | current_status = Active | footnotes = }}
'''EarthCam, Inc.''' is an American company based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, that provides webcam technology and services. Founded in 1996 by Brian Cury, the company's website, EarthCam.com, provides a network of live webcams from locations around the world.
The company's business is providing webcam technology and managed services for business and government applications, with its consumer-facing website serving as a network of thousands of cameras.
==History== EarthCam was founded in 1996 by Brian Cury. By 1999, ''The New York Times'' reported that 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the site.<ref name="NYT 1999">Catherine Greenman, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/technology/who-what-when-where-y2k-stay-homes-have-plenty-chances-see-parties-problems.html?scp=1&sq=&st=nyt ''Who, What, When, Where and Y2K; The Stay-at-Homes Have Plenty of Chances to See the Parties, or Problems, Unfold''], ''The New York Times'', December 30, 1999. Retrieved 2012-01-27.</ref> In 2006, the website won a Webby Award in the Tourism category.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season%3D10#webby_entry_tourism |title=Webby Nominees |accessdate=2012-01-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120222345/http://www.webbyawards.com/webbys/current.php?season=10#webby_entry_tourism |archivedate=2012-01-20 }}</ref>
For New Year's Eve 1999, the site hosted an event featuring 100 cameras from around the world to broadcast celebrations for the turn of the millennium.<ref name="NYT 1999" />
In October 2011, EarthCam donated and installed five cameras in the torch of the Statue of Liberty. The cameras provide views from a location that had been closed to the public since 1916.<ref name="Reuters 2011">Jonathan Allen, [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-statueofliberty-idUSTRE79P4J420111026 ''Statue of Liberty to sport webcams from its torch''], Reuters, October 26, 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-27.</ref><ref>Kitty Bean Yancey, [http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2011/10/statue-of-liberty-turns-125-gets-a-webcam/557783/1 ''Statue of Liberty turns 125, gets webcams''], ''USA Today'', October 27, 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-27.</ref>
For the 2016 New Year's Eve celebration, EarthCam streamed the first 4K video of the Times Square Ball drop on YouTube.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWmgUvSPDJM |title=New Year's Eve - Times Square in 4K – EarthCam |website=YouTube.com |date=2016-12-31 |accessdate=2017-01-05}}</ref>
==Notable projects and webcams== EarthCam operates cameras at public landmarks, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington D.C.,<ref>{{cite web|date=2012-08-04|title=EarthCam - Build the Dream|url=http://www.mlkmemorial.org/site/c.hkIUL9MVJxE/b.6053219/k.C7C4/EarthCam.htm|url-status=bot: unknown|website=Archive.is|accessdate=2016-08-17|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120804140728/http://www.mlkmemorial.org/site/c.hkIUL9MVJxE/b.6053219/k.C7C4/EarthCam.htm|archivedate=2012-08-04}}</ref> the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, Pennsylvania,<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=Live Webcam {{!}} Flight 93 National Memorial|url=http://www.honorflight93.org/memorial/construction/?fa=live-webcam|website=Honorflight93.org|accessdate=2016-08-17|archive-date=2016-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160908163549/http://www.honorflight93.org/memorial/construction/?fa=live-webcam|url-status=dead}}</ref> and London's Abbey Road.<ref>{{cite web|date=|title=Crossing Cam|url=http://www.abbeyroad.com/Crossing|publisher=Abbey Road|accessdate=2016-08-17}}</ref>
The company has also used its cameras to produce time-lapse videos of major construction projects. A notable example is a time-lapse showing the 10-year construction of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, created from images captured at the site from 2001 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author=|date=2014-08-30|title=World Trade Center Cams|url=http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/worldtradecenter/?cam=wtc_tl|website=EarthCam.com|accessdate=2016-08-17}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|30em}}
==External links==
{{Official website|http://www.earthcam.com/}}
Category:Technology companies established in 1996 Category:Internet properties established in 1996 Category:1996 establishments in New Jersey Category:Companies based in Bergen County, New Jersey Category:Upper Saddle River, New Jersey Category:Webcams