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Search in Group Albums Launches Today

Since we launched Group Albums in May of this year, over one-hundred thousand Groups have been created on Photobucket, ranging from weddings and family gatherings, to special interests, charities and rock bands.

Group Albums on Photobucket allow multiple users to upload their photos and videos to one shared photo and video album, with an administrator of the Group providing optional review and approval functions.

Today we are adding a bunch of new features in Group Albums.

Here's a quick summary of the new features.

Search in Groups, Featured Albums, and Most Active Groups

You can now search through all the public Groups, and see if there are groups that might interest you. So search for things like "mullet" or "puppies" or whatever and see what you can find.

 

You can contribute your own photos and videos to any Group that's set as public.  The owner of the Group may have chosen to qualify your submission before it's visible to the world.

You can also click to see which Group Albums we are featuring today, which are the most active, the most recent, and those with the most individual contributors.

We've added RSS to Search Results on Photobucket

For RSS fans, we are adding the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds of search results. You can already subscribe to RSS feeds from public Photobucket albums.

The link for RSS feeds is on the footer of every Photobucket page.

So if you have a favorite search term you look for regularly on Photobucket, get the RSS feed into your RSS reader and you'll always see the latest.

Categories in Group Albums Launch Today

Group Album Categories

You can also search for Group Albums by category. When you make a Group, you have the choice of adding it to up to three categories. Browse around categories that interest you and see what you can find. If you want new categories added, write to us!

 

Vanity URLs for your Albums

Vanity URLs for Your Group Album and Personal Album

You probably already know this, but you can also make a "vanity URL" for your Group Album. So when you're inviting your friends, family or fans to your Group Album, you can hand out an easy-to-remember  URL.

This is not a new feature today -- we shipped this with Group Albums in May. We just want to remind you it's there!

This works for your personal Photobucket album too. There's a link in the upper left corner of your album to set your own URL:

Announcing Enhancements to Group Albums

Number One Photo and Video Sharing Site Photobucket Enhances Group Albums

Mobile Uploads and Comprehensive Search Functionality Now Available

Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com), the leading standalone photo and video-sharing site, today announced the addition of new features to the already popular Group Albums. Group Albums (http://photobucket.com/groupalbums) allow multiple users to upload their photos and videos to one shared photo and video album, with an administrator of the Group providing optional review and approval functions.

With this new release, users can add more detail to describe their group album and are now able to search all public Group Albums. In addition, each Group Album now has a unique email address, enabling users to upload photos directly from their mobile phones to the Group Album. Photobucket also highlights Group Albums with the most activity, contributors, and newest content, as well as Groups in categories such as Fashion, Schools, Music, Entertainment and more. These new features enhance the previous offerings of personalized vanity URLs, custom privacy settings, broad sharing capabilities and more.

Since its debut in May, over one-hundred thousand Group Albums have been created, ranging from weddings to family gatherings to rock bands. This popular feature helped drive record traffic to the site resulting in its largest traffic month ever in the U.S.  With more than 24 million unique visitors in June (according to comScore Media Metrix), Photobucket continues to be the No. 1 photo site in the U.S. 

For one band, Forever the Sickest Kids (FTSK), their Group Album on Photobucket (http://photobucket.com/ftsk) now features over 4,100 images that have been uploaded by fans and Photobucket users around the world.  Lead singer Jonathan Cook says, “The Photobucket pictures that have been submitted by FTSK fans are so good that I have put my personal digital camera away and now rely on the posse to submit pics that I can show my family back at home from each city and use for my personal MySpace page! FTSK PWNS ALL!” 

Other popular group albums include the Fotoflexer Image Editor’s Best Edited Images which include almost 2,000 photos that have been edited with Photobucket’s built-in, free editing tool powered by FotoFlexer.  (http://photobucket.com/fotoflexer). Users are encouraged to upload their favorite edited photos and images in the Fotoflexer Group Album provide an insight into how typical Photobucket users customize and personalize their photos and images on the site. 

Photobucket Announces iPhone Application for Apple App Store

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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New July 4th Slideshow Style

We just launched a totally new way of doing slideshows: using video surrounds. This is pretty cool. Check it out for the new July 4th Slideshow style.  You can make your own slideshow by clicking "create slideshow" in your account.

Or click here to create a slideshow.

Your slideshows can be shared anywhere -- posted, or email shared.

 

Thousands of new groups made on Photobucket

Since we launched Group Albums a month ago, literally thousands of groups have been made by Photobucket users.  What's a Group Album? It's an album where groups of people can contribute photos and videos to the same album -- great for events, interest groups, teams, schools, weddings -- wherever many people get together with many cameras. 

Click here to read the original blog about Group Albums.

Check out some of the featured Group Albums on the main Group Albums page.

And here's a short list of some of our favorites that we've seen made over the past couple of weeks.

Graduation: http://photobucket.com/2008Graduation

Piercings: http://photobucket.com/piercings

Puppies: http://photobucket.com/puppies

Graffiti Art: http://photobucket.com/Graffiti_art

Black and White: http://photobucket.com/black_white

FotoFlexer Experts (people who use the built-in image editing on Photobucket): http://photobucket.com/fotoflexer

Baseball Fans: http://photobucket.com/baseballfans

Weddings: http://photobucket.com/weddings

It's easy to add your own stuff to the Group Albums. Just log in and upload.

And if you have a family reunion this summer, or big BBQ, or want to gather memories from friends over the school year -- tell everyone to put their pics into a Group Album of your own. If you want to keep it to yourself, you can password protect it.  Or if you want to share it with us and get it featured, click on the Tell Us About It in the upper left corner of the Group Albums main page.

We're the best photo sharing site, so vote for us!

We need to rally the Photobucket troops and get voting on this Web site for the best photo sharing site! We think we are. We hope you do too.  Thanks so much for your vote!

Go here: http://lifehacker.com/395900/five-best-photo-sharing-web-sites

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