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Photobucket snaps a portrait of success

By Jack Dempsey for USA TODAY Photobucket co-founders Alex Welch, left, and Darren Crystal are reflected in a window of their Denver facility. Making sure the site can handle its massive traffic is "a constant challenge," Crystal says. Photobucket has 1,000 servers spread across the country.

By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES — Photobucket is by far the No. 1 online photo-sharing site. But if you're not a MySpace user, you've probably never heard of it.

Denver-based Photobucket provides a one-stop shop for uploading pictures and videos all over the Web at sites such as Craigslist, eBay and, most prominently, red-hot social network MySpace. So many teens and young adults use it that the site has more than 40% of all online photo-sharing traffic, considerably more than longtime photo leaders Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly and Yahoo Photos, according to measurement service Hitwise.

Photobucket serves up 3 billion online images and videos daily for its 41 million members; 85,000 new members sign up every day.

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