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Akamai profits from rise of online video productions Akamai Technologies has pointed to the growing prominence of HD online video productions.
A tech company in the US has seen its sales surge this year thanks to the rapidly growing popularity of online video productions.
According to Bloomberg, Akamai Technologies - a firm which helps websites stream video content - was the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year up to July 28th, climbing 74 per cent.
It also pointed to research from Frost & Sullivan which predicted that Akamai and its competitors will have sales of about $600 million from online video this year, up 20 percent on 2009.
This follows the finding by comScore that an estimated 35.7 billion online videos were watched in the US in June - a substantial increase on the 19.5 billion watched in the same month a year earlier.
Paul Sagan, Akamai's chief executive officer, told Bloomberg that one of the most promising areas of growth may be high-definition video, which has just started arriving on PCs.
Indeed, research by IDC has found that about seven per cent of all videos watched online are in high-definition, up from 3.5 per cent last year.
Posted by Anthony Roberts
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