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Photobucket introduces native photo upload solution for Palm Pre

Native Integration Enables Easy, One Click Uploads to Photobucket.com

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. – June 8, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a native photo upload solution for the new Palm® Pre™ phone.  As a pre-installed photo upload partner, Photobucket lets Palm Pre users easily send photos taken on their mobile device to a Photobucket album without having to download an application.  Users just take a picture and tap on the Photobucket entry to send the picture to their Photobucket account.(1)

Photobucket introduces mobile photo application for Ovi store by Nokia

Free Mobile Photo Application Available Worldwide

San Francisco, Calif. – June 1, 2009 —Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a free Nokia-compatible Photobucket mobile photo application inside Ovi Store by Nokia.  This mobile application grants Nokia customers worldwide easy access to images on Photobucket as well access to personal Photobucket albums. It is now available for download from Ovi Store at store.ovi.com.

Photobucket launches mobile application with Danger

Advanced Options Provide A Richer Photobucket Experience

San Francisco, Calif. -- March 19, 2009 — Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premiere standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of a mobile Photobucket application exclusively for the T-Mobile Sidekick. Built in conjunction with Danger, Inc. a Microsoft subsidiary and software services provider for the mobile device, this feature-rich application enables users to access and interact with Photobucket media directly from anywhere. 

The new application provides users with the richest mobile experience to date.  Users upload photos and videos from their handset directly to their Photobucket album. From here, there are a number of options, including adding and editing titles, descriptions and tags, as well as rotating and resizing images. Additionally, users can:

• Create a Photobucket account 
• Log into Photobucket to access their albums  
• Browse and search images and videos on Photobucket
• Browse other users’ albums 
• Share images

 “Photobucket is thrilled to team up with Danger to bring subscribers the most comprehensive mobile application for Photobucket to date,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket.  “Photobucket is always seeking out ways to make photo sharing easier and more convenient and this collaboration enables our users to share and manage their photos easily while on the go.”

Photobucket introduces instant photo uploader for T-Mobile phones

T-Mobile Customers Can Now Send Mobile Photos to Multiple Destinations Including Photobucket, Home PC and Email

San Francisco, Calif. -- March 18, 2009 — Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premiere standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the availability of an innovative mobile photo service exclusively for T-Mobile that enables users to send photos directly from mobile handsets to several destinations: a Photobucket album, a PC hard drive, or any an email address. 

And the mobile news keeps coming ...

With more news about mobile coming out today, your Photobucket has the most comprehensive mobile offering of any photo and video sharing site. Your Photobucket works with more US carriers and mobile phone manufacturers than any other dedicated photo and video sharing site, and we're the only site with zero-click, one-click and on-deck upload for mobile phones.

Great news for T-Mobile Sidekick fans on Photobucket!

Are you lucky enough to have a T-Mobile Sidekick? Great news today! Photobucket is launching a brand new mobile application that lets you: Log into your Photobucket album Upload photos and videos that you've taken directly to your Photobucket album Share your photos and videos with everyone you know Add titles, tags, descriptions to photos and videos on Photobucket Browse and search billions of fun photos and videos on Photobucket Browse your friends' albums on Photobucket

To learn more about the app, along with instructions on how to download, go to http://www.poweredbydanger.com/inthewild/news/38188

The application can be found on your T-Mobile Sidekick's Download Catalog.

This Photobucket application is available on the T-Mobile Sidekick LX, T-Mobile Sidekick Slide, and T-Mobile Sidekick.

The application will cost $1.99 to download, and will cost $1.99/month thereafter.

Photobucket announces new, expanded photo and video-sharing features

Web’s Top Photo-Sharing Site Also Debuts New Mobile WAP Site

San Francisco, Calif. – MARCH 11, 2009 – Photobucket (http://photobucket.com), the Web’s premier stand-alone photo and video-sharing Web site, today launched a new, innovative set of features that expands the way users share photos and videos across multiple Web sites. By partnering with Gigya, whose technology has become the standard for connecting content with the social web, and leveraging its own open API platform, Photobucket now enables its more than 48 million unique monthly users worldwide* to utilize a simple point-and-click “share” interface to publish their photos and videos across more Web sites than any other stand-alone photo and video-sharing site.

Version 2.0 of our WAP site for Photobucket launches today

The first release of our WAP site was just a little over a year ago. A new version comes out today, with new stuff including:

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.

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.

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!

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:

JuiceCaster and Photobucket Enable Mobile Video and Picture Sharing

Award-Winning Mobile Social Media Application Teams Up with Web’s Most Popular Media Sharing Website

Los Angeles – Sept. 24, 2008 – JuiceCaster, a leading mobile social media application, today announced an agreement with Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com), which will enable Juicecaster users to instantly post mobile videos and picture messages from their mobile phones directly to their Photobucket account.

“JuiceCaster is an outstanding mobile companion to Photobucket, expanding our users’ ability to wirelessly post unlimited videos and pictures to their personal Photobucket page,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “Photobucket users now have another great way to share and access their Photobucket media while they’re away from a PC.”

In the coming weeks, Photobucket will be a featured channel on JuiceCaster’s online flash player, which can be embedded on a number of Websites, including Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, and any website that allows a user to embed a flash player. Through the JuiceCaster flash player, users will always be able to view their recent Photobucket media.

JuiceCaster and Photobucket Enable Mobile Video and Picture Sharing

JuiceCaster is a mobile social media application. Today they announced a way to let their users instantly post mobile videos and picture messages from their phones directly to their Photobucket accounts.

If you're interested in learning more about JuiceCaster, and joining their network, go to http://www.juicecaster.com/photobucket.  Or you can text "join" to 84462 from your mobile phone.

To link your JuiceCaster account to Photobucket is easy. And you only have to do it once. Once set up, any pictures or videos that you "post publicly" will go straight to Photobucket.

To link your JuiceCaster account to Photobucket:

1. Login to your JuiceCaster account at http://www.juicecaster.com. (Or join, if you don't already have an account.)

2. After login, go to your profile page and click on "Manage Connections" under "My Account" menu.

3. Under Manage Connections, click on the "Add Connection" button. Select Photobucket from the drop-down menu.

4. Follow the instructions to authenticate and complete the connection.

5. Start JuiceCasting!

We think JuiceCaster is an oustanding companion to Photobucket.  We're excited to help our users extend their reach with photos and videos. We hope you have fun JuiceCasting!

Photobucket and Sprint Announce One-Click Upload to Photobucket

Just in time for back-to-school, Sprint and Photobucket have teamed up to allow Sprint customers to send digital photos straight from their phones to Photobucket, the leading stand-alone photo and video sharing site, in just one simple step.

It’s as easy as snapping a picture of the kids on their first day of school using your Sprint phone, then selecting Photobucket from the list of “Post to Service” options that pop up.  The photo automatically uploads to the customer’s Photobucket account, so family and friends can view it online anytime, no matter where they are.

The Photobucket feature is available on more than 30 Sprint phones, including the popular Samsung Instinct, LG Rumor, Motorola RAZR2, Sanyo Katana DLX, and more. 

Unlimited use of the service is included at no additional cost for all Sprint Picture Mail subscribers, including customers on Simply Everything plans and Talk/Message/Data Share plans.

As the first U.S. carrier to launch a mobile photo sharing service, Sprint has always given its customers more ways to use their digital photos – from sending to other phones and email addresses in one simple step, to organizing and editing their pictures in online albums, to sending directly from the phone to be printed at one of 9000+ retail locations, including 5300 Walgreens stores.

Photobucket has more than 46 million users worldwide and more than 10 million personal photos,  images and videos are uploaded to Photobucket every day for sharing with family, friends and the online world. More information on Sprint Picture Mail is available at www.sprint.com/picturemail.  Additional details on Photobucket are available at http://blog.photobucket.com.

Are you at the RNC? Show us your photos!

If you're at the RNC this week, then join our RNC Group Album. We made one for the DNC last week, and lots of people uploaded photos from the street. You can upload your pics by mobile phone by emailing to 2008_rnc@m.photobucket.com.

We'd love to see what you see!

At the DNC in Denver? Upload your pics by mobile phone here!

If you're at the DNC in Denver this week, join our DNC Group Album!  Upload your pics by mobile phone by emailing to dnc@m.photobucket.com.

We'd love to see what you see!

Mobile Upload to Group Albums Launches Today

Upload to Group Albums from Your Mobile Phone

So this is cool. Imagine a Group Album for your vacation or travels. Or for any wanderings when you're out and about on the streets. Phone it into your Group Album!

Phone in a pic of a great pair of shoes you bought, a fabulous view you saw, someone's strange hair-do while you're commuting to work, the hot date you just met.

Click on the "Mobile Phone" button on the right of the Upload panel. You'll see the unique email address associated with the Group Album. Use that Group Album email address to phone your photo into the Album.

All the same rules apply about approval of the images by the Group Album administrator (if that option has been set).

And you don't have to phone it in.  This email address works from your normal email client too. Just attach the photo to the email and send it in!

By the way, this feature works for all albums on Photobucket, not just Group Albums. Personal ones too. If you want to learn more about how to upload from a mobile phone, read this Tutorial.

Photobucket Announces iPhone Application for Apple App Store

NOTE update as of Fall 2008: this application is now free for download

Photobucket Announces iPhone Application for Apple App Store

Web’s Top Standalone Photo Site Makes Photo Sharing One Click Away For iPhone Users

San Francisco, Calif. – July 10, 2008 -- Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com), the world's leading standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced that its new application developed exclusively for the iPhone will be available July 10 from the Apple App Store.  Photobucket for the iPhone grants users full access to their Photobucket accounts directly from their iPhone, enabling one-click photo uploads, as well as full viewing options for albums and other Photobucket content. 

“Photobucket is thrilled to have an application available at the launch of the new Apple App Store, and to extend the Photobucket experience to users of the iPhone and iPod touch,” said Alex Welch, President, Photobucket.  “Photobucket provides an easy way for consumers to store and share photos on the Internet, and this new application allows us to deliver that same, industry-leading experience wirelessly to iPhone users.”

The new Photobucket application is available for download for $4.99 starting July 10 from the Apple App Store at www.itunes.com/appstore/

About Photobucket
Photobucket is one of the Web’s most popular sites, with more than 44 million unique users worldwide* 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, more than 10 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.

*comScore Media Metrix, May 2008

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Sending pics from your mobile phone to your album

People often ask us this, and so we thought we'd write a quick post. I's incredibly easy to take a pic with your mobile phone and have it appear instantly in your Photobucket album. Here's how:

Your Photobucket album has a unique email address associated with it. You can find that email address when you click on Account Options in the upper right corner of your album. It's a bit of a long email address, so make it a contact name in your phone book so you don't need to enter it every time.

Then, whenever you take a pic, send it by MMS email to that address. The pic will show up instantly in the album. It's really easy!

To see step by step instructions, take a look at this Tutorial in our Help system:
http://tutorials.photobucket.com/tutorial_6.html