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Teva Mountain Games Photo Competition

Did you make it to the Winter Mountain Games this last weekend in Vail?

We were there, braving the cold to bring you Photobucket goodies and app downloads.

If you took some photos, remember to enter the public contest by adding your photos to the group album. You can win some great prizes from Eddie Bauer, Teva, Maui Jim and more!

Check out this great photo as an example:

And even if you weren't there, you can still take a good look through the group album and click "Like" for the photos you love!

Thanks to everyone who came by to say hi and learn more about Photobucket! You guys rock!

Photography – Going to the Dogs?

I tweeted recently about a touching photography story I ran across – about, of all things, how dog “glamour shots” are helping to raise rescue adoption rates. It’s such a simple thing, but as a dog owner myself, I thought it was worth mentioning to highlight how people all over are helping to make a real impact with images.

CBS News first did a segment on Dallas-based photographer Theresa Berg, who said she aims to change the grim images of animal adoption photos into something that a possible pet owner cannot refuse. According to Berg, she can’t stand the thought that, “for want of a good picture, a dog goes homeless.”

The result? Each and every one of the dogs she photographed got adopted in record time, and adoption rates at the rescue are up 100 percent. She now trains volunteers from other rescues, and is encouraging other professional photographers to donate their talents to the cause, saying, “If every photographer just took in one rescue group, we could save so many more dogs,” which equates to tens of thousands of lives.

Berg now offers “Focus on Rescue,” a free photo clinic for animal rescue volunteers where they’ll teach participants how to take better photos using the camera and equipment you already have – even if it’s just a cell phone! Get more information via the contact page of her website here.

And we certainly can’t forget about the cat lovers out there! Our feline friends are known for their swagger, and in honor of the upcoming Puss in Boots 3D movie, we’re running a new contest: Simply show us your sassiest cat photos for a chance to win a year’s supply of Friskies® cat food, a $600 gift card AND tickets to see Puss In Boots in RealD 3D. Click here for more information and to enter. Good luck!

-Tom

Photobucket now has unlimited storage!

The web’s premier photo and video site on the web, Photobucket.com is now giving unlimited storage* for all users! This means that free users get all of the below:

• Unlimited photo storage
• There will be a limit of 500 videos for free users
• All storage for free users will be resized (we will not keep originals)
• Bandwidth restrictions will remain at 10GB/month for free users

Now’s the time to sign up for an account with Photobucket and upload all your photos and videos to share with family and friends!

And if that’s not enough great news, if you Tweet, post on Facebook or email your friends with the news, you could win an iPad 2! So what are you waiting for? Get your upload on with unlimited storage at Photobucket! Click here to learn more.

 

*Photobucket reserves the right to limit excessive use and the unlimited storage offer pertains to non-commercial use only.

Win a Sony Dash!

Want to Win?

With spring right around the corner, what better way to get excited about warmer weather, flowers and birds chirping than by sharing your favorite spring photos to win something awesome! From trees blooming to green grass popping through, upload your photos for a chance to win a new Sony Dash!  With the Dash, you can have your favorite photos pushed to you automatically.

Not only is Photobucket giving away five new Dashes to the winners of the contest, but Sony’s also offering a $20 instant rebate to everyone at participating retailers from 3/13/11 - 4/2/11. You can’t lose with this deal!

The Sony Dash displays your Photobucket pictures anywhere with Wi-Fi, and utilizes over 1000 free apps for real time information, personally delivered. For more information, see www.sony.com/dash or this cool preview video.

How to Enter:

To enter, go to the “Spring Forward Photos” contest. Good luck, and keep sharing your photos!

Coffee Mug Contest

From your favorite sports team to funny phrases, everyone has their favorite mug. Whether you bought the mug from a truck stop or made it yourself, share and enter your photo of you and your favorite mug in the official Starbucks' Me and My Mug contest for a chance to win a sweet Starbucks gift pack. Vote for your favorites and check out your other fellow coffee lovers. Have fun with your photo and show your love for the mug and the great coffee bean!

Winter Fashion Guide Winner

From boots, hoodies, and sweaters, the Winter Fashion Guide had a lot of stylish entries. The best dressed of the group, rocking pink hair and a sweet jacket was announced today. Thanks to all the fashionistas who entered! Check out the entries!

Best Dressed:

Halloween Costume Contest Winners

Hundreds of adorable costumes entered the Best Halloween Critters Costume Contest. From cute elephants to baby bumble bees, the entries were known for creating a chorus of "Awwww". Special thanks to everyone who participated! The winners:

1st Place:

 

2nd Place:

 

3rd Place:

Calling All Coffee Lovers!

Do you have a special mug or ritual of how you drink your cup of coffee? Whether you are rocking a bathrobe with sleep eyes or a mid-afternoon boost of energy, show us your unique coffee drinking behavior and you could win!

Upload and share your favorite photo of your drinking a cup of joe for a chance to win! Five winners will be selected and each will receive an International Delight Prize Pack which includes a Cuisinart coffee maker and International Delight products. Submit your entries here! 

UPDATE: The Winners Have Been Announced!

 

 

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!