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Skinit launches terrific integration with Photobucket for custom skins

Our friends at Skinit.com have just launched their integration with Photobucket.

Loving Twilight? New Twilight themes for your Photobucket albums

We know you're loving the movie Twilight. Maybe it's even making you go back and re-read the most fine books. Or not.

Sprint customers can show photos and videos on Photobucket

This blog post references a press release issued today, Monday November 24, from Sprint. Sprint announced an enhancement to Picture Mail that allows Sprint customers to send digital photos and videos straight from their phones to Photobucket.

Britney Spears album launches on Photobucket today!

Following on the heels of insanely popular 'fan band' group albums on Photobucket, today we're welcoming Britney Spears onto Photobucket with a brand new fan group album.

Comments launch today on Photobucket!

We know. We know. You've all been waiting for comments on Photobucket for a long time. With a site that hosts over 75 million users, and billions and billions of photos and videos, we have to ensure that any features can withstand issues on a grand scale -- so we can keep your site humming along nicely.

FTSK came to Photobucket's offices! Check out the videos.

Sometimes (well often actually) we have a great day at the office at Photobucket. Especially when we get FTSK to come and perform a "Concert in the Kitchen" here at our San Francisco office.

Verizon Wireless and Photobucket Launch Instant Mobile Photo Uploading

Web’s Leading Standalone Photo Site Makes Photo Sharing Fast and Easy For Verizon Wireless Customers

Basking Ridge, NJ & San Francisco, Calif. -- November 13, 2008 — Verizon Wireless, the nation’s leading wireless provider, and Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a new mobile photo service on select Verizon Wireless handsets that enables Verizon Wireless customers to easily send photos from a mobile device to a Photobucket album.  The application will launch exclusively for Verizon Wireless customers and is available for download from Verizon Wireless mobile storefront by texting ‘photob’ to 2777, in the Community and Sharing category of the Verizon Wireless Get It Now catalog or by visiting http://photobucket.com/mobile.

Verizon customer? Got questions about Photobucket and your phone? Here are the answers!

Here are some questions you may have about the Photobucket Mobile Uploader, which launched today for Verizon customers:

What can you do with your mobile phone on Photobucket?

With today's release of the Photobucket Mobile Uploader for Verizon customers, we thought it's a good time to list all the things you can do with your mobile phone on Photobucket.

How many times have you seen people holding up mobile phones to take pictures?  Have you wondered what they do with all those photos? Do you know how to share mobile phone photos with friends and family?

Today’s mobile camera phones are capable of capturing high quality pictures and videos.  At Photobucket, we’ve found that people are relying on their mobile camera phones more and more – particularly when they encounter the unexpected, funny situations or memorable events.

In a recent survey of Photobucket users, 80% said they had a camera in their mobile phone, and 36% said they used it once a day or more!

Photobucket is excited to be part of the Microsoft Windows Live Services launch

We're excited to be part of the updated Windows Live Services announcement with Microsoft tonight.  Anything that makes photo sharing easier is good for all of us. Photobucket will be an integrated photo partner in Windows Live Services.

Visit the 24 Redemption Exclusive Photo and Video Album

24 Redemption Photos on Photobucket

Photobucket hosts exclusive gallery of photos from Fox's 24 Redemption -- Captured in Africa

Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the premier stand-alone photo and video-sharing site, today announced that it is the premier online destination for behind-the-scenes photographs taken during filming of Fox’s “24:Redemption – Captured in Africa”.  “24” fans, art enthusiasts and photography buffs around the world can now visit Photobucket to view select photographs from the full photo exhibit at the Paley Center for Media, as well as additional photographs which are available for viewing only online.  Photobucket users can also extend the “24:Redemption” experience to their personal or group albums by applying a custom “24:Redemption” theme to the background of their personal albums. 

See the hot top 10 Album Themes on Photobucket

It's been almost a month since we launched Album Themes on Photobucket.  So it's neat to see which themes have become the most popular since launch.

You may have noticed that if you hold your mouse over an Album Theme thumbnail, it'll tell you how many people have used that theme.  There are still some "classic" styles from pre-Themes days. (You used to be able to just change the background color of your album -- those are considered Classic Themes.)

But now, Pink Diamonds is the second most popular Theme, after boring plain white. So let's get those boring white albums out!

Here are the top 10 custom Album Themes

If you click the links below, you'll get to see what they look like in your Album. (Don't worry, you can back out any time if you don't like them. But we think you will.)

Make desktop background collages on Photobucket

We were watching a rather clever Photobucket user at work last night. She was using the built-in scrapbook tool on Photobucket to make a collage for her laptop desktop background picture.

We liked the idea so much, we wanted to share it with you too!

Go into the scrapbook tool -- click "scrapbooks" in the top menu bar.

Play with different backgrounds, stickers, themes. If you don't like any of the built-in themes, start with something blank. Be sure to choose "get stickers" and "get backgrounds" to get lots and lots of new stuff.

There are hundreds of stickers to play with! Our Photobucket user thought they were really fun.

Drag and drop pics of your favorite things onto the page.

Just save one page (you can delete the others).

In Photobucket, you'll see a static JPG of the collage saved in its own album inside your account.  Use that JPG as your desktop background. It looks great!

Snap, crackle, rock, Ludo launches on Photobucket

We love Ludo

And they've worked with us to put together an awesome Group Album. So if you're a Ludo fan, been to a Ludo gig, or want to see some LUDO fans, go to visit the LUDO Group Album: http://photobucket.com/ludorock

Printing with Scrapblog launches on Photobucket

Since launching our scrapbook integration with Scrapblog in August, hundreds of thousands of scrapbooks have been made on Photobucket.

Now we have worked with Scrapblog to integrate printing as well. Our friends at Scrapblog provided us boxes of samples of the kinds of books and cards they print, and they are, well, fabulous!

Click here to get started.

Print Cards With Scrapblog Designs

We are excited about the cards you can print on Scrapblog. Using Scrapblog's top quality designs, you can drag and drop your own images into the pre-built layouts, and print up cards that are much, much better than your regular "stick a photo in a designed border" holiday greeting card. These cards will make your holiday greetings really look amazing!

Print greeting cards on Scrapblog

Print Memory Books with Scrapblog

Of course the traditional perception of scrapbooks is memory books. But forget the stickers, scissors and glue. (Who the heck has time for that anyway?) Just drag and drop photos and images into Scrapblog's pre-built designs, and print them out. They will look gorgeous!

Click here to get started.

Print memory books on Scrapblog

Lots of Holiday Designs

There are plenty of holiday designs to choose from. They make great inexpensive and beautifully personal gifts.

Click here to get started.

Lots of holiday designs for cards and books