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Last chance to see your super Underdog sidekicks!

Last chance to enter the Underdog contest on Photobucket! To celebrate the new Underdog movie (opening August 3rd) we're looking for the most creative pic of your dog in a costume.

Update: August 1 2007: Sorry. Contest has now ended. Stand by to hear the winner!

Go here to enter: http://photobucket.com/contest/underdog.

Contest ends midnight July 31, 2007.

You can enter more than once. We're looking forward to seeing your pics!

Some fun new slideshow styles to play with this weekend

If you haven't checked out slideshows in a while, there are a couple of new styles in there ("thank you", "party", "summer") -- plus some unique movie-flavored action.  To make a slideshow, click "create slideshow" in your album. Check them out!

The Simpsons Movie!

Show us how smart that baby of yours really is!

Got a photo or video of your baby being super clever? Playing with a ball? Catching water? Watching eggs hatch? Send it to us, and you could be in for a chance to win a Baby Einstein video DVD pack. We can't wait to see them!

To enter the contest:

1. Upload your pic or video to your Photobucket account.
2. Go to the Baby Einstein contest page: http://photobucket.com/contest/babyeinstein
3. Submit your pic or video to the contest.

You can enter more than once if you want!

Show us your best before and after transformation -- on Photobucket

Summer is the perfect time to re-invent yourself -- and time to think about going back to school with a new style. Show your 'before and after' transformation and submit to the new JCPenney contest on Photobucket. You could win a $500 shopping spree -- and who can say that's not a good thing?

Plus! You'll get featured on the Photobucket home page -- how cool is that?!

To enter the contest:

1. Take pics and/or videos "before" and "after" your transformation.
2. Go to the JCPenney contest page: http://photobucket.com/contest/jcpenney
3. Build a "before" and "after" remix (using the Adobe Premiere Express, built into Photobucket). Build it using your pics and videos, and enhance with commentary, frames, transitions -- whatever you like to make it creative and fun.
4. Submit your remix to the contest.

You can enter more than once if you want!

For details on how to use Photobucket's remix, using Adobe's Premiere Express, go to the tutorials here: http://tutorials.photobucket.com/#33/.

Underdog is looking for a sidekick -- on Photobucket!

Got a cute dog? In a cute costume? Check out the super fun new contest featured on Photobucket -- bought to you by the new Disney movie "Underdog."

Update: August 1 2007: Sorry. This contest has now closed. Stand by to hear the winner!

To check out the contest go here: http://photobucket.com/contest/underdog.

Submit your most creative, original photo of your dog in a costume. Chance to win a very nice Underdog prize pack. 

To enter the contest:

1. Upload your pic to your album.
2. Go to http://photobucket.com/contest/underdog
3. Find the pic and submit to the contest.
4. Follow the instructions for agreeing to rules, etc.

You can enter more than once. We're looking forward to seeing your pics!

Meet the greatest team you've never heard of -- on Photobucket!

For Photobucket girls, aged 14-17 you get an exclusive chance to take a look at some cool content in the new Nike sponsored "remix" on Photobucket.

Click on "Create Remix" in your album. Open the "Nike Pro" folder and check out all the cool videos and pics and meet the Nike Women's Soccer team. (Sorry. Unless you're a girl aged 14-17, you won't see this folder.)

Here's a remix with just a little taste of what's in there:

Check it out! Mix it up with your own power soccer pics and videos.

Send us links to your remixes on pbfeedback@photobucket.com. We'd love to see them!

Fox Interactive Media Completes Acquisition of Photobucket

Today we are announcing the final "close" of the acquisition of Photobucket by Fox Interactive Media.  For all our users, we expect nothing to change in our day-to-day operations. The plan is to operate Photobucket as an independent, standalone company within FIM.

We plan to continue developing innovative tools that enhance self-expression and give you the best media sharing, linking and searching experience on the Web. Partnering with FIM will give us added resources and support to deliver on this vision, as well as the ability to offer new features for you -- our most important audience.

If you have questions or just want to drop us a line, write a comment here on the blog, or email us at pbsupport@photobucket.com. We read all your emails and messages. Keep them coming. And most importantly, keep all the great ideas coming.

Official Press Release
Los Angeles, CA – July 9, 2007 – Fox Interactive Media, Inc., a division of News Corporation, announced today that it has completed its previously-announced acquisition of Photobucket.com, Inc.  No financial terms were disclosed.

Photobucket Wins CNET “Webware 100” Award

DENVER, June 28, 2007 -- Photobucket, the world's largest personal media site, today announced that its video editing remix service has received one of the “Webware 100” awards for the media category by CNET Webware. The finalists for the “Webware 100” awards were selected by the editors of Webware.com, a CNET site, but the ultimate winners were picked by the site’s users.

The “Webware 100” Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services and applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Webware.com editors received and reviewed thousands of entries. Finalists were selected and featured in an online voting poll, where users voted and ultimately selected 100 winners in 10 categories. A list of the winners can be found at www.webware.com/100.