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Baby Breakout Star Contest on Photobucket -- down to the finalists

You can see the Baby Breakout Start contest finalists on Photobucket here.  As soon as our wonderful teams have sorted through all the necessary and boring paperwork, we'll be able to announce the winner. But in the meantime, look at those cute kids!

Think you've got talent? Enter our GLEE contest for a chance to win a trip to the Teen Choice Awards!

A fun contest starts today on Photobucket. We're working with the people behind the terrific new show GLEE.  The cast of GLEE are inviting you to show them your Gold Star potential talent.  The lucky winner receives a trip for two to the Teen Choice Awards in Hollywood, with a chance to walk the red carpet with the stars, and an invitation to the VIP after-party.

Baby Breakout Star Contest on Photobucket

There's always something going on at Photobucket, and today it's the "Baby Breakout Star" contest, sponsored by Baby Einstein.

Update as of 6/2/2009: finalists have been chosen. You can see them here. There's all kinds of rather boring but necessary paperwork that needs to be done before the winner can be chosen. We'll announce as soon as that's done!

Announcing the Photobucket 1 year anniversary contest for our API

It's been almost a year since we opened up our fabulous Photobucket API to the developer community at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco in April 2008. Since then, we've had thousands of great developers sign up to use our API ... more of who is doing what will be announced at Web 2.0.  There's some great stuff to talk about.

Join the Bounce Pet contest -- show us you and your sweet pet!

You and your pet look-a-like contest! If you and your pet turns heads on the sidewalk, show us in a picture. Nice prizes!

Leave the doom and gloom behind -- try out for a trip to Hawaii!

What could be better than a trip to Hawaii in February to watch football? Yes, that's the prize in our Greatest Football Fan contest.

So don't pass it up. Enter today. Tell all your friends. This is such a great opportunity, and it ends next week.

Photo scavenger hunt on Photobucket

Do you have happy memories of scavenger hunts, where you had to find red ribbon, a q-tip, and a mystery paperback book (or whatever -- you remember what we mean) -- all in the space of a couple of hours? We do. We love scavenger hunts.

So we decided to try one on Photobucket, in collaboration with the folks who are bringing you the new movie Quarantine.

Go here: http://photobucket.com/quarantine

You have to try to find images from the movie Quarantine. If you do, you can click on them and then enter a contest to win some cool prizes. Simple and fun.

Just the way we like it.

Check it out!

Calling All Football Fans to Photobucket -- Contest Launches Today

We're so glad it's Football Season in the U.S. You can support your NFL team wherever you are in the world, by adding your photos to one of the Football Fan Albums. You can find them in the Group Albums area. Click here to see all the sports fan albums.

Great new contest starts today!

We love contests, because they are a chance for our Photobucket friends to win something really cool. This time, we are hosting a contest where the biggest football fan gets to go to the All Star Game in Hawaii in February.  How can you beat that?

Just upload a photo of yourself -- your best tailgate party, outfit, face paint, whatever.  The biggest fan will get to win that amazing gift -- a trip to Hawaii to watch football.

See more than 27 ugly dresses on Photobucket!

We're having a super fun time looking at all your ugliest dresses in one of our contests. Keep them coming. They're a hoot! Here's a small selection below.

Want to see some more? Visit other contest entries.

Got something uglier? Then enter your own!

Then visit our 27 Dresses contest, and show us for gosh sakes!

 

Got a video camera and a few friends? Get spoofing!

Check out some of the entries in the MTV Movie Spoof contest.  Have fun this weekend! Get your cameras out and spoof your favorite movie! You could end up on MTV.

To enter the contest, go here: http://photobucket.com/contest/mtv/

Take a look at this one. I know you can do just as well (if not better)!

 

Here are some important instructions, because this is a big time contest. Sigh.

1. You can only spoof the movies listed here.

2. Your movie spoof should be no longer than three minutes in length.

3. You have to use the music MTV has provided. Videos with any other music soundtrack will be automatically disqualified. Sorry. Click here to get the music. They're giving you five tracks for free, or you can purchase more if you want.

4. Ready to roll? Click here to go to the contest.

To read more details about the contest, go here: http://blog.photobucket.com/blog/2008/04/mtv-wants-to-se.html.

Announcing the 2008 MTV Movie Awards on Photobucket

A very exciting contest launches today on Photobucket, with our friends from MTV. It's the 2008 MTV Movie Spoof Contest.

Think you're ready for your 15 minutes of fame? Bring your inner movie director out, and show the world how well you can "spoof" your favorite movies by submitting original movie shots parodying scenes from the movies listed below.

Just ONE finalist from Photobucket will move to the final round on MTV -- and that's where voting will take place.

The deadline for submissions is May 11th, 2008.

The creators of the finalist video will be flown to LA to attend the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, and a chance to accept the coveted Golden Popcorn at the live ceremony from the Gibson Amphiteather in Universal City on June 1, 2008.

Here are some important instructions, because this is a big time contest. Sigh.

1. You can only spoof the movies listed below.

2. Your movie spoof should be no longer than three minutes in length.

3. You have to use the music MTV has provided. Videos with any other music soundtrack will be automatically disqualified. Sorry. Click here to get the music. They're giving you five tracks for free, or you can purchase more if you want.

4. Ready to roll? Click here to go to the contest.

 

Pick your movies

Here's a list of the movies MTV wants you to pick from.

Comedies

• Knocked UP
• Evan Almighty
• Hairspray
• Superbad
• Juno
• Leatherheads

Action/Thrillers

• Disturbia
• Transformers
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Beowulf
• Cloverfield
• Jumper
• 10,000 BC
• I Am Legend

Horror

• 28 Weeks Later
• Sweeney Todd
• The Eye
• The Ruins

Drama

• Into the Wild
• No Country for Old Men

Romance

• Across the Universe
• Fools Gold
• Enchanted

We're looking forward to seeing what you come up with! Go Photobucket!

You have until May 11th, 2008 to enter the contest. Then voting takes place on MTV's site until May 26th, 2008. Winners are announced live on MTV on June 1, 2008.

Got a stinkeye? Let's see it!

We've got a stinkeye contest going on at Photobucket. What's a stinkeye? That lingering glare that screams of disapproval. And we've seen some real doozies in this contest. Check out the ones we've got so far.

If you've got a great stinkeye photo, enter it into our contest on Photobucket!

Here are some fun entries so far!