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Avatars Invade Photobucket

We've partnered with the leading avatar site, Meez, to allow you to create, customize and share your 3D ID right from your Photobucket album.  We know you are all creative, social and fun loving so we've partnered up Meez. You can make clever, funny, and expressive avatars to share with the world right from within Photobucket!

How? Look for this button in your Photobucket album to get started!

The Meez 3D avatars can be customized and animated in a thousand ways -- face, nose, lips, hair, clothing, pets, costumes, backgrounds -- too many ways to list here! Safe to say, we had a blast playing with them at Photobucket.

Once you've created your Meez, you'll be able to save them directly to your Photobucket album. Then, share them with family, friends and the online world, just like you share all your pictures, videos, slideshows, and remixes.  For details, check out this tutorial.

Click "More" below for the full walkthrough and press release.

Videos working on MySpace again!

Hi all,

Following discussions with MySpace, we’re pleased to announce that all Photobucket videos and remixes are enabled once more on MySpace with immediate effect. Both our companies are committed to putting our users first.

Moving forward, we’ve established open lines of communication and procedures with MySpace to prevent a sudden block of Photobucket content in the future. We want our users to be able to share their content and understand it must be within the framework of MySpace’s Terms of Service for it to appear on the site.

Thanks for all your patience. And we really appreciate all the feedback we've received. We've read it all. Happy sharing!

Alex/CEO
Photobucket

Two weeks left for Mandy Moore!

As soon as you get back from Spring Break, get mixing for Mandy Moore!  High schools in the following cities get a chance to enter the Mandy Moore contest, and have Mandy come sing at their high school graduation:

1. Cape Girardeau, MO
2. Los Angeles, CA
3. New York, NY
4. Chicago, IL
5. Boston, MA
6. Dallas, TX
7. Austin, TX
8. Philadelphia, PA
9. San Francisco, CA
10. Phoenix, AZ

For more details, go to http://photobucket.com/mandymoore. Deadline is April 30th. Get mixing for Mandy!

Photobucket hits the big Four-O

We're pretty excited here in Denver and Palo Alto. We just hit 40 million users. This is a great milestone for us -- we've come a long way since 2003. Not only that, but ComScore (the leading Web site that measures visitor numbers) puts us at the #1 spot in the US for photo sharing sites, and #4 in the US for the multimedia Web sites.

Livejournal Integration of Photobucket!

For those of you who use Livejournal, you'll now find that it's easier than ever to access your Photobucket album when you're drafting your post! Read more about it at Livejournal.

While writing up your latest blog entry, click on the  "Insert Image"  link (in either the Rich Text or the HTML update page), then select the Photobucket tab. Log in with your Photobucket username and password, and you'll be able to grab your photos, graphics, or videos and drop them right into your post.

 

Mandy Moore Video Remix Contest!

Contest announcement! Want to have Mandy Moore sing at your high school graduation this year? We're working with Mandy to promote her new hit single "Extraordinary" with a video remix contest that lets high school students showcase their schools, their stories, and their "extraordinary" lives to win a free performance by Mandy Moore!

This promotion is geared at the graduating class of 2007 and is in conjunction with our friends at MyYearbook.com

It's easy to enter:

1. Go to MyYearbook.com to read about the contest, and see if your high school is eligible.
2. Create a Photobucket Remix Video using your own videos and images.
   • Use the Mandy Moore Remix bin of images and videos to add Mandy images if you wish
   • Add Mandy Moore's hit "Extraordinary" as your remix video's soundtrack.
   • We encourage you to be creative and have fun with showing how your school is "Extraordinary" and why you should win!
3. Publish and submit your entry at MyYearbook.com.
   • Use Photobucket's built-in linking to copy and paste a link to your remix into the contest entry page.
4. View and Vote for your favorite videos.  If you create a great video, you'll want all your classmates to vote for your creation!

Voting starts from May 1st - May 10th with the official winner being selected by Mandy Moore herself. 

Winners will be announced on May 15th.  See the latest entries here.

Detailed information and FAQ can be found at http://www.photobucket.com/mandymoore and on the Contest Details page.

Important Uploader Information

Updated 04.05.07

We pushed out an update this morning which should resolve any issues associated with the Javascript errors.  Please let us know if you're continuing to see some problems!

Please read this important browser compatibility update: in order for uploading of videos and images to work correctly, you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser. If you don't have JavaScript enabled, you may find that uploading images and videos will not work correctly.

Here are some brief instructions for enabling JavaScript in various browsers: