Photobucket
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| URL | photobucket.com |
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| Commercial? | Yes |
| Type of site | Miemi |
| Registration | Not Required |
| Created by | Alex Welch Darren Crystal |
| Launched | 2003 |
| Alexa rank |  154 (March 2012[update])[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures.[2][3] It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.
In December 2009, Fox's parent company, News Corp sold Photobucket to Seattle mobile imaging startup Ontela. Ontela then renamed itself Photobucket Inc. and continues to operate as Photobucket.[4]
In June 2010, Photobucket was named in the Lead411's Hottest Seattle Companies list.[5]
Photobucket is usually used for personal photographic albums, remote storage of avatars displayed on internet forums, and storage of videos. Photobucket's image hosting is often used for eBay, MySpace (from 2007–2009, a corporate cousin), Bebo, Neopets, and Facebook accounts, LiveJournals, Open Diarys, or other blogs, and message boards. Users may keep their albums private, allow password-protected guest access, or open them to the public.
Photobucket advertises 99.9% uptime, and offers unlimited photo storage and a 500 videos limit for free users. Until June 2011[6] it offered 500MB free storage (reduced from 1GB on 19 August 2009). This reduction of storage space frustrated users, who were locked out of adding new images to their accounts unless they agreed to pay the upgrade fee. (Unlimited space with paid PRO account*),[7] Unlimited (was 100GB but went to 25GB in July 2008 and down to 10GB on August 19, 2009) monthly bandwidth.[8] Unlimited space and bandwidth is valid only for non-commercial use. Uploaded photos must either be smaller than 5 MB and 2048x1536 in size (20MB and 4000×3000 with paid account), uploaded videos must be ten minutes or shorter for free and paid accounts.[9] (*As of 6/1/11, Photobucket has enabled the Unlimited space for non paid users). [10] Since Photobucket does not allow sexually explicit or objectionable content, they may remove content at their discretion due to violations of their TOS.[11]
Photobucket supports FTP uploads, but the user must be a Pro account holder.[12] Windows XP Publisher is supported as an alternative to FTP. It is available in free accounts.
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[edit] Photobucket offers
- Sharing of photos, videos, and albums by email, IM, and mobile phone
- Group albums
- A scrapbook builder
- A slideshow builder
- A remix builder
[edit] Twitter Partnership
Twitter announced in June 2011 that Photobucket will become the default photo sharing platform for Twitter.[14] According to a report by Sysomos, 2.25M images are shared on Twitter daily, which accounts for 1.25% of all Tweets posted.[15] Just before the announcement, TwitPic and Yfrog were the leading photo-sharing services, something that will change [says who?] with Twitter's partnership.
[edit] See also
- Comparison of video services
- List of photo sharing websites
- List of video hosting websites
- TinyPic
- Flickr
[edit] References
- ^ "Photobucket.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/Photobucket.com. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
- ^ 2% of U.S. Internet Traffic goes through Photobucket
- ^ PhotoBucket Closes $10.5M From Trinity Ventures
- ^ http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2010/02/05/it%E2%80%99s-official-ontela-bought-photobucket-from-news-corp/
- ^ Lead411's Hottest Seattle Companies List
- ^ [1], Photobucket blog, June 1st 2011
- ^ Storage information on Photobucket.com
- ^ Bandwidth information on Photobucket.com
- ^ Photobucket.com, FAQ
- ^ Photobucket.com, Photobucket Blog
- ^ Photobucket.com, Terms of Service
- ^ Photobucket.com Help > Uploading Media > Upload with FTP
- ^ "About Photobucket". Photobucket offers. http://photobucket.com/about. Retrieved in 2009.
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/pda/2011/jun/01/twitter-photobucket
- ^ "How People Currently Share Pictures On Twitter". Sysomos. 2011-06-02. http://blog.sysomos.com/2011/06/02/how-people-currently-share-pictures-on-twitter/. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
