Photobucket

URL	http://www.photobucket.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Image Hosting Service
Registration	Not Required
Owner	News Corp Digital Media
Created by	Aubrey Mafatle
Launched	2003
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.^[1][2] It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.

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 (now 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 500MB free storage (reduced from 1GB on 19th 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. (10 GB with paid PRO account)^[3], 10GB (was 100GB but went to 25GB in July 2008 and down to 10GB on August 19, 2009) free monthly bandwidth. ^[4] Uploaded photos must either be smaller than 1 MB or 1024x768 in size (5 MB or 2240x1680 with paid account), uploaded videos must be five minutes or shorter (10 min with paid account).^[5]

Since Photobucket does not allow sexually explicit content, they may remove content due to violations of their TOS.^[6]

Photobucket supports FTP uploads, but the user must be a Pro account holder.^[7] Windows XP Publisher is supported as an alternative to FTP. It is available in free accounts.

[edit] 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.

[edit] See also

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

[edit] External links

• Official Website

[edit] References