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.

Jennifer Byrne, director of digital media at Verizon,said, “Mobile phones are adding a new dimension to sharing images between friends, colleagues or family members.  Photobucket is bringing Verizon Wireless customers a new and easy way to share their photos and videos in real-time, without needing to move to a PC to upload and send them.”

“Photobucket is thrilled to team up with Verizon Wireless to provide a quick and easy photo sharing solution for people on the go,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket.  “Photobucket has always been committed to making photo sharing fun and easy.  The Photobucket Mobile Uploader for Verizon Wireless unlocks the full potential of camera phone photos, allowing users to easily save and share images online more easily than they would using traditional digital cameras.”

To utilize the application, Verizon Wireless subscribers sign up for a Photobucket account – which can be created for free at http://photobucket.com  – and enter their log-in information to link their Verizon Wireless account to their Photobucket online photo album.   Once the accounts are connected, the application instantly uploads photos already saved on the phone to the user’s Photobucket account.  The Photobucket Mobile Uploader then automatically sends any future photos directly to the same Photobucket account. 

Verizon is the first carrier in the United States to be offering the Photobucket Mobile Uploader and the application will be available initially on 13 handsets.  The service is available now from Verizon Wireless, which enables the user to send unlimited mobile photos to their Photobucket account for a monthly subscription fee of $2.99. 

About Photobucket
Photobucket is the Web’s most popular creative hub, with nearly 40 million unique users around the
world linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands
of Web sites, including Bebo, Blogger, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, MySpace, Orkut, Xanga and many others. In addition to linking content, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. Every day, over 11 million personal photos, graphics and videos are uploaded to Photobucket for sharing with family, friends and the online world. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers.  Photobucket has offices in San Francisco, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at http://www.photobucket.com. For the latest feature announcements and news, please visit the Photobucket blog at http://blog.photobucket.com.

About Verizon Wireless
Verizon Wireless operates the nation’s most reliable wireless voice and data network, serving 70.8 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 71,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). For more information, visit www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.

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Contacts:

For Photobucket:
Talia Yates
Fox Interactive Media
310.969.7145
Talia.yates@fox.com

For Verizon:
Jeffrey Nelson
Verizon Wireless
908.559.7519
Jeffrey.Nelson@verizonwireless.com

Comments

[Alice Lankester]

Thanks, Brendajos -- good question. The Verizon service automates the transfer in the background. You just click the camera button and you've got no more buttons to press! No addressing. No messaging. So that's the first benefit.

Second for messaging, subscribers typically pay a transactional or monthly fee. So email probably costs you too, right?

Finally, the service transfers in full resolution. The media isn't going to be shrunk on transfer, which can reduce quality.

So hopefully you'll give it a try and see how incredibly easy and quick it is to do. That's really the absolutely best bit! We've become totally hooked on it at Photobucket!

Hope that helps answer questions. Any others, go to our support forums, and there are people there to help! http://photobucket.com/forums.

Thanks!

[brendajos]

am i understanding that this would cost me $3/mo when I already send all my pics to my account by email for free?

[sachin]

Thank you Photobucket. This is my 'personal' most awaited feature of Photobucket.