Happy New Year! Starting 2012 on a Positive Note

By Tom Munro, CEO

A new year is upon us, and I always like to use this time to take the lessons learned from the previous 12 months and apply them as we set goals for the next 12 months. Did you achieve what you set out to accomplish in 2011? Why or why not? And what changes can be made to make your 2012 even more successful, both personally and professionally?

Here at Photobucket, we were fortunate enough to end 2011 on a high note (see my previous posts here and here). But we are even more excited to be carrying that positive momentum into 2012: Recently, the website Top Ten Reviews ranked Photobucket as #1 in their roundup of the “2012 Best Photo Sharing Service Comparisons and Reviews.” And thanks to our partnership with Twitter last year, research recently revealed that Twitter’s own photo-sharing feature (powered by Photobucket) now powers nearly half of all the photos shared on the micro-blogging site. You can read more about the findings Colleen Taylor’s GigaOm article here.

Perhaps the best part of a new year, however, is that’s there’s so much opportunity on the horizon. At Photobucket, we’ve got some great things up our sleeves for the next 12 months (I can’t spill the beans just yet, but be sure to stay tuned). But I also want to invite you to share your thoughts on how we can improve Photobucket over the course of the next year. We’re continually evolving, and everything we do is with you, our users, in mind, so please feel free to share any feedback and ideas on how we can make it the best possible experience for you.

Thanks for your continued support, and here’s to 2012!

-Tom

Comments

[Photobucket Staff]

Hi there JR! Sorry for the delayed response, we didn't see your post :-/

This is good feedback. I'm sending this suggestion on to our Product Design team for you. We have a lot of great changes coming to the site in the next couple of months. So input like this is great for our Product team.

I wish I had another suggestion for you, or a work-around for this but I don't. Unless you are emailing from your phone, then you could use one of our apps to upload and title the images through the app - http://photobucket.com/mobile/index/.

Thanks again!

[James]

Hi Tom,

Here's a regular gripe that keeps Photobucket from being usable for a large number of users and potential users:

Email posting: Email posting is completely standard to Flickr and other photo sharing services. Yes, Photobucket has it -- but you can't add hashtags or categorize your photo from the email. As a result, users wanting to email their photos to their Photobucket accounts will THEN have to log in to Photobucket to tag their photos. Needless to say, having to log in to Photobucket shortly after sending the email-post utterly defeats the purpose of email photo posting -- and the feature (as it exists) is next to useless.

Given the very large number of users who would much rather send off an email rather than login and upload -- I think Photobucket is missing a rather large, low-hanging fruit in this case.

Thanks for your time,
JR