Photobucket

Photobucket

URL	photobucket.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Image Hosting Service
Registration	Not Required
Created by	Alex Welch Darren Crystal
Launched	2003
Alexa rank	153 (May 2012[update])[1]
Current status	Active

Photobucket marketing headquarters in Palo Alto, California

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.^{[citation needed]} It offers free users unlimited total photo storage for non-commercial use, with a limit of 1MB per photo. However, the unlimited offer does not apply if Photobucket considers the use "excessive". The free photo dimension limit is 2048x1536 pixels. Free users may also upload up to 500 videos, each limited to 500MB and 10 minutes.^[6] Premium (pro) accounts also have unlimited bandwidth (as well as storage), except in cases Photobucket deems abuse. For premium users, the photo display file size limit is relaxed to 2MB, and the dimension limit is increased to 4000x3000 pixels. Photobucket also allows premium users to download the original images they uploaded, up to 20MB.^[7]

Until June 2011^[8] it offered 500MB free storage (reduced from 1GB on 19 August 2009). This reduction of storage space frustrated users,^{[citation needed]} who were locked out of adding new images to their accounts unless they agreed to pay the upgrade fee.^[9]

Free monthly bandwidth was originally limited to 100GB but went to 25GB in July 2008 and down to 10GB on August 19, 2009.^[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.

Photobucket offers

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• Sharing of photos, videos, and albums by email, IM, and mobile phone
• Group albums
• A scrapbook builder
• A slideshow builder
• A remix builder

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.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Comparison of video services
• List of photo sharing websites
• List of video hosting websites
• TinyPic
• Flickr

References

External links

• Official website