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First look at Photobucket's new bulk media uploader!

Starting today, Photobucket's Pro users get to test drive our new Bulk Media Uploader. This beta preview lets you browse through folders on your computer, select up to 100 images, and then upload them all at once.

For Pro users: click on this image in your album to try it out:

Photobucket Enables Third Party Web sites to Embed Instant Digital Media Search

Photobucket Enables Third Party Web sites to Embed Instant Digital Media Search

Announces Launch of Photobucket Media Plug-in 2.0, Adding Media Search to the Company's Popular, Free Image and Video Plug-in

Palo Alto, Calif., June 25, 2007 – Photobucket <http://www.photobucket.com> , the world’s largest personal media site, today announced the launch of the Photobucket Media Plug-in 2.0, an enhanced version of its free image and video hosting plug-in, originally launched in June 2006. The Photobucket Media Plug-in offers an easy way for developers of Web sites to tap into Photobucket’s vast collection of media assets. It allows users of participating Web sites to search for billions of publicly stored photos, videos and images from Photobucket’s extensive library, and access their existing Photobucket media accounts – all without leaving partner sites. Since its launch in June 2006, the Photobucket Media Plug-in has been successfully deployed by hundreds of Web sites. The Photobucket Media Plug-in 2.0 will be available for partner Web sites before the end of June 2007.

Each day more than 25 million searches are conducted across Photobucket’s public library of photos, images and videos. Users of partner sites will now be able to search for that same content to upload and share more quickly to their own sites. Partner Web sites that embed the Photobucket Media Plug-in benefit from having users spend more time on their sites, providing immediate access to Photobucket’s extensive image and video library and offering Photobucket’s rich digital media search to their users.

Photobucket CEO wins in Denver!

We're all pretty proud of our Alex at Photobucket today! Alex won Entrepreneur of the Year in the "emerging company" category at the Ernst & Young awards ceremony in Denver last night.  He couldn't have done it without an amazing team at Photobucket, and an even more amazing community of users.  You keep us all on our toes, and we love that. Thank you all!

Here's a photo of Alex with his award. Love the suit, Alex! How come you don't wear that every day to work?

Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket, Inc.

Photobucket CEO & Co-Founder named finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year!

Photobucket CEO and Co-founder, Alex Welch,
Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award Finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region

DENVER, June 19, 2007 – Photobucket, the world’s largest personal media site, today announced that CEO and co-founder, Alex Welch, is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award in the Rocky Mountain Region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Alex Welch was selected as a finalist from over 65 nominations by a panel of independent judges.

Photobucket Slideshows Upgraded!

Check out Photobucket's slideshows to see fresh updates that make it easier to create, customize and share your slideshows at Photobucket.

The left column makes it easier to browse the different styles of slideshows available to you -- including our new featured style Ratatouille.  Choose your style and slideshow size.

The center column is your main slideshow preview area and lets you title and reorder the images in your slideshow.

The right column lets you browse and select images from your albums and sub albums with greater ease.  You can now create slideshows from images that are in different albums or sub albums.

Save your slideshow and share it with the world! Try it out today.

Read all the slideshow tutorials or email support@photobucket.com if you've got other questions.

Ratatouille Slideshows - Featured at Photobucket!

Photobucket's added a new Featured Slideshow highlighting the characters from Disney/Pixar’s new feature animated film, Ratatouille.

Sign into your album and click the "Create slideshow" link to get started.

Ratatouille opens in theaters June 29th. Be sure to check it out!

Photobucket Postcards on Facebook!

Exciting news for our many Photobucket users with Facebook accounts -- check out our new Photobucket Postcards application.

Send a Postcard to your Facebook friends with a favorite photo, image, slideshow, mashup or video along with a friendly greeting.  Pick something from your own Photobucket album or from our huge online library of images and videos.  Check it out.

See how it works after the jump.

Happy Birthday to Us!

Photobucket went live with a handful of registered users, friends, hard work, and a lot of heart exactly 4 years ago today.

Photobucket welcomes Yahoo! Photos users

Starting today, users will be able to migrate their photos from Yahoo! Photos - scheduled to close shop this fall - to Photobucket in just a few quick and easy steps. Support tips and answers to your most common questions on this migration are available here from Yahoo!

Photobucket is an ideal migration choice for many users because our services are free and allow you to easily link, blog, and share your photos and albums with your friends and family all over the world.  Additionally, we you can prints, mugs, tees, and other gifts from your photos.  New and existing users can even order CD and DVD backups of entire account through Photobucket.

The process is simple.  Just log into your Yahoo photos account and you'll be stepped through the process.

We look forward to welcoming your photos into the Photobucket family!

LOLCats invade Photobucket

Photobucket folks will find it fun to upload, caption, create, and share their very own LOL Cat pictures with our new affiliate Icanhascheezburger.com

What is a lolcat? Quite simply, it's a cat picture with a caption that makes you laugh out loud.

The fine folks at ICHC have built The Cheezburger Factory which lets users upload images, add captions, submit, share, vote, and link Lolcat images across the web.  The resulting lolcat images are hosted by Photobucket and available to the millions of users who upload, search, and share their lives at photobucket.com daily. To view the current collection of user generated LolCats hosted at Photobucket, check out the official IcanHasCheezburger album. RSS feeds are available for this album as well.

Translation: Cheezburger n Tofuburger haz built cheezburger factory so u can makes lolcats and putz on any websites.  I has mah bukkit and who haz their bukkits can haz cheezburger lolcats anytime.  Want! Moar!  I'm in ur RSS, feedin' your kittehs.

A brief intro on how the cheezburger factory works is illustrated below.

Translation:No needz invisible manual to be learning how. Just readz.