Surfline

This article is about the surf forecasting website. For the railroad line, see Surf Line.
Surfline
Company typePrivate
FoundedSouthern California - 1985
FounderSean Collins
HeadquartersHuntington Beach, California
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Kyle Laughlin (CEO)
Websitesurfline.com

Surfline is a company and website based in Huntington Beach, California that specializes in surf forecasting and surf reports, live webcasting, photography, videography, as well as editorial coverage of the sport of surfing. Surfline.com is now ranked 1,180 in the US and 5,784 in the world in terms of popularity compared to other websites[1] and is now the largest provider of streaming HD coastal cams[citation needed]. Since 2003 it has taken on buoyweather.com[2] and fishtrack.com[3] (2012), on average the family of websites receives 175,000 visitors per day. The site includes streaming video, surf reports and forecasts.[4] Surfline.com offers over 500 streaming cameras[5] at 150 surf breaks,[6] and is one of the larger surf cam websites.[7] Surfline currently has approximately 50 employees.[8]

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