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Brand new Video Uploader Today

If you already upload video, try out the brand new Video Uploader. And if you haven't put videos on Photobucket, we're certain this will get you started!

The new Photobucket Video Uploader offers Windows PC* users:

• Drag-and-drop video functionality for instant uploading and sharing with no lag time -- share the moment you upload!


• On-the-fly video editing - you can trim and slice the beginning and end of a video before uploading


• Direct Webcam support – you can immediately record video from your webcam and make it instantly available for sharing on Photobucket


• Unique real-time client encoding technology that provides much faster video uploads overall.

*Initial beta for Windows only.

Announcing MORE new stuff in remix!

Today, we pushed out even more new features in our web-based video and photo editing service. More music, glitter, and videos to play with.

Here's a fun remix made with today's new features!

Here's a quick demo of remix features:

Announcing a makeover on your Upload Options

We're really quite proud of the user interface upgrades we've made today for uploading media.  We know you're used to the way it was -- but from our experience, within a few minutes you'll love the new layout.  We really think it makes it much easier and quicker to upload media.

Photobucket on CNN Money!

"The biggest Web site you've never heard of." We know you all know us. But now someone at CNN Money does too. Nice article. We wanted to share it.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn't need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it's built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day. That's up from just 50,000 members at the end of 2003. More.

Remix service -- available to all!

Remix and mashup service to create video remixes from your own media (photos, artwork, videos) available to all. Check it out now!

In February 2007, we announced our partnership with Adobe to provide a fun, free video remix tool for our users.  Since then it's only been available under beta to our "Pro" users. As of today, the service is now available to all our Photobucket users.

Try Skinning Your Video

You may not have realized this, but Photobucket's videos are easily customizable to reflect your moods, brands, artwork, and photography.  You can "skin" the player so that when your videos are embedded on a website or profile page, it looks the way that you want it to. The skin image will appear "behind" the player as a background. It's very easy and we've created a tutorial here to guide you through the process. You can also search Photobucket for MySpace Backgrounds and then save the image to your desktop with the new filename of player_skin.jpg.  Re-upload the image in the same folder as your videos (even remix videos!) and you've got a custom video player! You can use the sky, and artsy pics in this post to try it out if you like.

Kickin' It Old Skool Album

Check out the Kickin' It Old Skool Photobucket album -- with photos from the movie. Feel free to pick up links to the photos for your own spaces and profiles. The movie releases on April 27th, 2007. It's a comedy that stars Jamie Kennedy as a young breakdancer who falls into a coma after injuring himself during a talent show. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his career with the help of his girlfriend and parents.

New look Home page

New Home page at Photobucket today -- and we welcome your comments.  Contact us. We look forward to hearing what you think.

Site Issue Resolved: March 21st

Status as of 12:30PM Pacific Time: March 21st, 2007: During the night on March 20th 2007, a small percentage of Photobucket users experienced issues accessing their content.

The moment we were alerted to the issue, our special forces team worked through the night, and now the issue has been resolved. 

No user should have experienced any data loss. There is no need to either make a new account, or re-upload your content.

Please know that we place the very highest priority on the reliability of our service. We fully appreciate that for those people who experienced an inaccessible account, this was frustrating and extremely inconvenient. Despite the volume of comments here, the number of users affected was only a small percentage of our overall user base. And every customer matters to Photobucket.

We truly appreciate your patience and thank you for choosing Photobucket.

If you have any specific questions, please email us at pbfeedback@photobucket.com.

Photobucket Hitwise#1 award winner

We were thrilled to hear today that we're now a Hitwise #1 award winner for year ending December 2006.  The Hitwise award recognizes websites from over 160 industry categories that are leaders in their industry. A nice way to end the week!