Photobucket

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**Photobucket**

URL	http://www.photobucket.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Image Hosting Service
Registration	Requried
Owner	Alex Welch Darren Crystal
Created by	Alex Welch Darren Crystal
Launched	2003
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.^[1] ^[2] 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, Bebo and Facebook accounts, LiveJournals or other blogs, and message boards. They advertise 99.9% uptime, and offer 1 GB free storage (10 GB with paid account), 10 GB free bandwidth (unlimited with paid account). Photobucket currently has Terms of Service that disallows nudity.^[3] Photobucket supports FTP, but the user must be a Pro account holder. ^[4] Windows XP Publisher is supported as an alternative to FTP. It is available in free accounts. ^[5]

Recently, it was made so that when the image thumbnail is clicked, the image description, name, and size can be edited.

Photobucket was named the fastest growing site of 2005 according to Nielsen/Netratings and now ranks as a Top 50 site by traffic according to ComScore.^[6]

1 Growth
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Growth

As of March 28, 2007 Fortune Magazine reports that Photobucket has 36 million registered users and adds 85,000 new users per day. Fortune claims that more users visit Photobucket each month than Facebook. 56% of users are under 35, and 52% are female. ^[7] According to TechCrunch, 300,000 unique websites link back to Photobucket.^[8]