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Photobucket Launches on Your Mobile Phone

So now you don't have to be too far away from your Photobucket album. We have launched our "WAP" site. That's a tech-y term for a version of Photobucket.com that you can browse on your mobile phone.  To take a look, browse to this URL from your mobile phone: http://m.photobucket.com.

What you get on Photobucket Mobile: View photos in your album on Photobucket -- tell me how. Upload photos and videos from your camera phone -- tell me how. Share photos with friends via email -- tell me how. Search Photobucket's vast library for photos and graphics -- tell me how. View tagged photos and find related images -- tell me how. Browse our daily dose of fun images that we find for our Home page on Photobucket If you want to read more about Photobucket Mobile, go to http://photobucket.com/mobile.

You can visit our FAQ site for more detailed answers.

As always, we want to hear your feedback. Write to us at support(at)photobucket.com, or visit our forums http://forums.photobucket.com.

Oops! You searched to http://m.photobucket.com from your computer browser?

We all did that. At least fifty times. Simply click on the link "Non-mobile Photobucket.com" at the bottom of the screen. Or enter this URL: http://m.photobucket.com/?mobile=false and you'll be all set.

Photobucket will know to go to the right site if you're on a mobile device, however.

Photobucket Launches Mobile Web Experience

Photobucket Goes Beyond the Desktop:
Leading Photo Site Launches Mobile Web Experience

Photobucket Mobile Recreates the Site’s Web-based
Uploading, Browsing and Searching Capabilities

PALO ALTO, Calif., January 15, 2008 – Photobucket, one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing personal media, today announced the launch of Photobucket Mobile, giving its millions of users access to Photobucket features on web-enabled mobile devices. Users can access Photobucket Mobile by visiting http://m.photobucket.com on their mobile device.

Through Photobucket Mobile, users can:

• Browse existing personal and public Photobucket content directly from mobile devices
• Upload photos and videos to Photobucket from mobile devices
• Share photos and graphics with individuals via email from mobile devices
• Search Photobucket’s billions of photos and graphics
• View a variety of featured photos and images every day from the Photobucket Mobile Home page

The demand for Photobucket Mobile has steadily increased among its user base. An internal survey of thousands of Photobucket users conducted by Fox Interactive Media’s Research and Strategy Solutions in August 2007 found that 80 percent have a camera phone, 36 percent use the camera in their mobile phone every day and more than half (52 percent) have access to the Internet from their mobile phone.

“The growing demand for Photobucket Mobile proved to us that now was the perfect time to unveil a fully-functional mobile platform,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “Photobucket Mobile offers a great destination for our avid users to upload, search and share their digital media, wherever they are. As photo sharing continues to move beyond the desktop, our users look to share their digital life moments instantly. Recreating the Photobucket experience on a mobile platform is a critical part of meeting this need.”

New Slideshow Styles on Photobucket

We've got some nice new slideshow styles for you to play with. Here are a few, but there are more in our slideshow creator. Login to your Photobucket account to take a look.

There are plenty more to play with. Just click "Create Slideshow" inside your album.

Growing Hearts Style (small size)

Instant Photos Style (small size)

Heart Together (small size)

Happy New Year from Photobucket!

Many, many good wishes for 2008 from Photobucket. We hope you all had a happy and restful holiday season.

We've had a busy couple of weeks here, keeping the Photobucket servers spinning over the holidays with all your photos and videos. It's always a busy time for us.

And now we are back to preparing for lots of good new stuff for the Photobucket site.

So we can tell you when new features are coming online, be sure to keep your email address up to date in your account options. We promise we won't bombard you with emails! We'll just let you know when there's something new we think you'll want to know about.

Check out account options to make sure you're all up to date:

(1) Edit your information to update your email address, change your password, or upgrade your account to Pro.

(2) Review your usage in the Account Dashboard.

(3) Edit your Album Settings to adjust how your album is viewed, and decide which links you want to show up.

(4) Your Mobile Settings provides the email address unique to your album. Use this email address to send photos direct to your album from your email system, or from your mobile phone.

For more information on any of these features, visit this Frequently Asked Questions area on the Photobucket site: http://photobucket.com/faq?catID=35