Starting today, Photobucket's Pro users get to test drive our new Bulk Media Uploader. This beta preview lets you browse through folders on your computer, select up to 100 images, and then upload them all at once.
For Pro users: click on this image in your album to try it out:
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Photobucket CEO and Co-founder, Alex Welch,
Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award Finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region
DENVER, June 19, 2007 – Photobucket, the world’s largest personal media site, today announced that CEO and co-founder, Alex Welch, is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award in the Rocky Mountain Region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Alex Welch was selected as a finalist from over 65 nominations by a panel of independent judges.
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Exciting news for our many Photobucket users with Facebook accounts -- check out our new Photobucket Postcards application. |
Send a Postcard to your Facebook friends with a favorite photo, image, slideshow, mashup or video along with a friendly greeting. Pick something from your own Photobucket album or from our huge online library of images and videos. Check it out.
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Photobucket folks will find it fun to upload, caption, create,
and share their very own LOL Cat pictures with our new affiliate Icanhascheezburger.com |
What is a lolcat? Quite simply, it's a cat picture with a caption that makes you laugh out loud.
The fine folks at ICHC have built The Cheezburger Factory which lets users upload images, add captions, submit, share, vote, and link Lolcat images across the web. The resulting lolcat images are hosted by Photobucket and available to the millions of users who upload, search, and share their lives at photobucket.com daily. To view the current collection of user generated LolCats hosted at Photobucket, check out the official IcanHasCheezburger album. RSS feeds are available for this album as well.
Translation: Cheezburger n
Tofuburger haz built cheezburger factory so u can makes lolcats and putz on
any websites. I has mah bukkit and who haz their bukkits can haz cheezburger
lolcats anytime. Want!
Moar! I'm in ur RSS, feedin' your kittehs.
A brief intro on how the cheezburger factory works is illustrated
below.
Translation:No
needz invisible manual to be learning how. Just
readz.
Photobucket fans and friends rejoice!
You can now purchase Photobucket branded goodies directly from our online store.
Check out the stickers, mugs, mousepads, t-shirts, and hoodies that are now available and order yours today. Go shopping now!
Yesterday morning, a few members of the Photobucket team had an extraordinary opportunity to meet and see Mandy Moore perform live at Napa Valley's Vintage High.
Mandy gave an exciting, energy packed, and awesome performance before a packed audience of the graduating class of 2007.
And gave some personal thanks and appreciation to Nikelle Riggs who created the winning remix with students and friends from her school.
Mandy also met with a few of the Photobucket team who were able to drive up for the event and autograph a Photobucket sign for us!
And for those Photobucket team members that couldn't be there, Mandy expressed her personal thanks as well.
Thanks Mandy! We totally love you!
Photobucket is proud to announce the winner of the Mandy Moore "Extraordinary" Remix contest!
Vintage High School in Napa California is the proud winner of a free acoustic concert by Mandy Moore for their graduating class of 2007. Watch their remix to see why their school won!
Mandy Moore called the winner last week and will be performing at their highschool this Thursday!
All other school entries will be receiving a signed poster for their participation. Again, congrats on an "Extraordinary" video and "Extraordinary" graduating class!
Read the entire media alert.
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Exciting announcement for those of you who are news, blog, podcast, and media junkies. Photobucket now supports RSS. RSS feeds are available for by username, individual public albums, by search result, or for recent uploads of images, videos, and remixes. |
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's an internet standard or format that lets folks get updated content - whether it's news, blogposts, or updated videos and images - to their inbox or newsreader. Check out this video that explains what RSS is in plain English.
You can collect and read your RSS feeds or subscriptions from your web browser (Flock, Safari,Firefox, IE7), website service (MyYahoo, Google Newsreader, Bloglines.com, etc) or software (Vienna, Outlook, Feeddemon) on your computer. Up to 20 thumbnails of feed results will show up with each update.
If you're using Firefox, Flock, or IE7 you'll see that RSS icon in your web address bar. If you're browsing public albums, you'll note the RSS icon in the lower left corner of the album page.
Here are some examples of what the RSS feed links should look like.
RSS Feed for Photobucket Username -
"PBHomepage"
http://feed0006.photobucket.com/albums/0006/pbhomepage/account.rss
Be sure you're on the username's account page to get their RSS feed. When given the option of "album feed" vs "user feed", select the "user feed" option. This is a great option for people to feed into their Facebook profile or blogs. Albums must be public for this to work.
RSS Feed for Photobucket "PBHomepage"s individual album "Smiles"
http://feed0006.photobucket.com/albums/0006/pbhomepage/smile/feed.rss
Select the "album feed" option for a top-level album or sub album for a public account. RSS feeds are not produced for private accounts or albums.
RSS Feed for an Image Search - term
"graffiti"
http://feed.photobucket.com/images/graffiti/feed.rss
Search for anything at Photobucket and you can retrieve an RSS feed for that search.
RSS Feed for Videos from the search term "puppies"
http://feed.photobucket.com/videos/puppies/feed.rss
You can specify if you'd like your search to be images or videos.
RSS Feed for Recent Video uploads
http://feed.photobucket.com/recent/videos/feed.rss
Or to view the latest public uploads at Photobucket, you can simply subscribe to Recent Images or Recent Videos. Recent uploads can be found when you click on "Find Stuff."
New look Photobucket albums released today -- re-designed to help you get things done quickly, and incorporating many great ideas you have given us. It may take a few minutes to get used to the new layout, but once you do, we are sure you'll love it as much as we do.
New Navigation Bar
Look at the top of your album to find the "Action navigation bar." The choices direct you to create slideshows, remixes, and avatars in your account, which you can then share with your friends or publish to your profile or blog.
View by Media Type
You can now view your media by "type" with the "Media Filter Bar" right above the contents of your album. Filter by images, videos, remixes, or slideshows.
New Look Thumbnails in Albums
Slideshows and remixes have a little label that makes them easy to spot. Clicking on a slideshow or remix thumbnail takes you directly to the edit area for that media type.
Tell us what you think!
Let us know what you think of these latest updates by dropping us a line in the comments or an email to pbfeedback@photobucket.com. All problems or support questions should go to the Forums or support.
As always, thanks for all the great support and feedback you give us. We really listen to it all.
We've partnered with the leading avatar site, Meez, to allow you to create, customize and share your 3D ID right from your Photobucket album. We know you are all creative, social and fun loving so we've partnered up Meez. You can make clever, funny, and expressive avatars to share with the world right from within Photobucket!
How? Look for this button in your Photobucket album to get started!
The Meez 3D avatars can be customized and animated in a thousand ways -- face, nose, lips, hair, clothing, pets, costumes, backgrounds -- too many ways to list here! Safe to say, we had a blast playing with them at Photobucket.
Once you've created your Meez, you'll be able to save them directly to your Photobucket album. Then, share them with family, friends and the online world, just like you share all your pictures, videos, slideshows, and remixes. For details, check out this tutorial.
Click "More" below for the full walkthrough and press release.
Hi all,
Following discussions with MySpace, we’re pleased to announce that all Photobucket videos and remixes are enabled once more on MySpace with immediate effect. Both our companies are committed to putting our users first.
Moving forward, we’ve established open lines of communication and procedures with MySpace to prevent a sudden block of Photobucket content in the future. We want our users to be able to share their content and understand it must be within the framework of MySpace’s Terms of Service for it to appear on the site.
Thanks for all your patience. And we really appreciate all the feedback we've received. We've read it all. Happy sharing!
Alex/CEO
Photobucket
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For those of you who use Livejournal, you'll now find that it's easier than ever to access your Photobucket album when you're drafting your post! Read more about it at Livejournal. |
While writing up your latest blog entry, click on the "Insert Image" link (in either the Rich Text or the HTML update page), then select the Photobucket tab. Log in with your Photobucket username and password, and you'll be able to grab your photos, graphics, or videos and drop them right into your post.
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Contest announcement! Want to have Mandy Moore sing at your high school graduation this year? We're working with Mandy to promote her new hit single "Extraordinary" with a video remix contest that lets high school students showcase their schools, their stories, and their "extraordinary" lives to win a free performance by Mandy Moore! |
This promotion is geared at the graduating class of 2007 and is in conjunction with our friends at MyYearbook.com
It's easy to enter:
Voting starts from May 1st - May 10th with the official winner being selected by Mandy Moore herself.
Winners will be announced on May 15th. See the latest entries here.
Detailed information and FAQ can be found at http://www.photobucket.com/mandymoore and on the Contest Details page.
Updated 04.05.07
We pushed out an update this morning which should resolve any issues associated with the Javascript errors. Please let us know if you're continuing to see some problems!
Please read this important browser compatibility update: in order for uploading of videos and images to work correctly, you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser. If you don't have JavaScript enabled, you may find that uploading images and videos will not work correctly.
Here are some brief instructions for enabling JavaScript in various browsers:
If you already upload video, try out the brand new Video Uploader. And if you haven't put videos on Photobucket, we're certain this will get you started!
The new Photobucket Video Uploader offers Windows PC* users:
*Initial beta for Windows only.
Today, we pushed out even more new features in our web-based video and photo editing service. More music, glitter, and videos to play with.
Here's a fun remix made with today's new features!
Here's a quick demo of remix features:
We're really quite proud of the user interface upgrades we've made today for uploading media. We know you're used to the way it was -- but from our experience, within a few minutes you'll love the new layout. We really think it makes it much easier and quicker to upload media.
Continue reading "Announcing a makeover on your Upload Options" »
"The biggest Web site you've never heard of." We know you all know us. But now someone at CNN Money does too. Nice article. We wanted to share it.
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn't need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it's built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day. That's up from just 50,000 members at the end of 2003. More.
Remix and mashup service to create video remixes from your own media (photos, artwork, videos) available to all. Check it out now!
In February 2007, we announced our partnership with Adobe to provide a fun, free video remix tool for our users. Since then it's only been available under beta to our "Pro" users. As of today, the service is now available to all our Photobucket users.
You may not have realized this, but Photobucket's videos are easily customizable to reflect your moods, brands, artwork, and photography. You can "skin" the player so that when your videos are embedded on a website or profile page, it looks the way that you want it to. The skin image will appear "behind" the player as a background. It's very easy and we've created a tutorial here to guide you through the process.You can also search Photobucket for MySpace Backgrounds and then save the image to your desktop with the new filename of player_skin.jpg. Re-upload the image in the same folder as your videos (even remix videos!) and you've got a custom video player! You can use the sky, and artsy pics in this post to try it out if you like. |
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| Check out the Kickin' It Old Skool Photobucket album -- with photos from the movie. Feel free to pick up links to the photos for your own spaces and profiles. The movie releases on April 27th, 2007. It's a comedy that stars Jamie Kennedy as a young breakdancer who falls into a coma after injuring himself during a talent show. Waking up in 2006, he looks to revive his career with the help of his girlfriend and parents. |  |
New Home page at Photobucket today -- and we welcome your comments. Contact us. We look forward to hearing what you think.
We were thrilled to hear today that we're now a Hitwise #1 award winner for year ending December 2006. The Hitwise award recognizes websites from over 160 industry categories that are leaders in their industry. A nice way to end the week! |
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We've developed a few new slideshows in our most recent release that we'd love for you to try out as well! Look for this button within your Photobucket album.
Try this Happy Birthday style!
How about hearts:
And, how about this "metal" style:
There are plenty more. Send us an email with your very own slideshows and you might be featured on the Photobucket blog!
Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CCOI) announced today that Photobucket has doubled its bandwidth connections with Cogent. Photobucket, the online personal media company where over 37 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, continues to experience explosive growth. The site is adding over 85,000 new users each day, which is resulting in significantly increased IP traffic demands.
Cogent has been Photobucket's primary provider of Internet bandwidth since 2005 and continues to support Photobucket's goal of reliable performance and uptime for their users. Part of that experience is making sure there is always enough capacity to handle traffic growth. This has resulted in several capacity upgrades for Photobucket and Cogent over the years, to keep in line with this continued user growth.
"We turned to Cogent for their pricing, we stay with Cogent for the quality and performance of their network combined with their superior customer support," said Darren Crystal, CTO and Co-Founder of Photobucket. "Our users are the trendsetters when it comes to social media -- their demands continue to grow as they upload more images, videos and remixed content. We are relying on Cogent to help us keep pace with the resulting bandwidth demand."
"Social networking is on the rise and so is the popularity of integrating media formats such as photos, graphics and video which all drive increased demand for bandwidth. Cogent is perfectly positioned to handle this bandwidth explosion by having ample capacity at the most attractive pricing in the industry," said Dave Schaeffer, CEO Cogent Communications. "Photobucket exemplifies how Web applications are able to advance and keep pace with user demands, with the availability of more and more bandwidth."
Photobucket is the Web's largest personal media site, with more than 37 million users. Photobucket's users store their photos, videos, remixes and images on Photobucket, and link from Photobucket to all their online profiles, personal Web sites and blogs. It serves over one billion content calls a day to the MySpace community alone. In the January 2007 ComScore rankings, Photobucket is the #6 most popular entertainment site in the US, and #35 most popular Web site overall.
About Cogent Communications
Cogent Communications (Nasdaq: CCOI) is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities-based ISP ranked by Ovum-RHK as the largest provider of Ethernet services in the United States. Cogent is also ranked as the 56th fastest growing company in North America on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 List for 2006. Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and point-to-point transport services. Cogent's facilities-based, all-optical IP network backbone spans 14 countries and provides IP services in approximately 90 markets located in North America and Europe.
Since Cogent's inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections at highly competitive prices. Cogent also has the ability to offer superior customer support through end-to-end operation of the network, enabling Cogent to control all aspects of service delivery and network monitoring.
Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007. For more information, visit http://www.cogentco.com. Cogent Communications can be reached in the United States at +1-202-295-4200 or via email at info@cogentco.com.
Information in this release may involve expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to Cogent Communications Group, Inc. as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations. Numerous factors could cause or contribute to such differences. Some of the factors and risks associated with our business are discussed in Cogent's registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in its other reports filed from time to time with the SEC.
Web site: http://www.cogentco.com
Pump Audio and Photobucket Deliver Legal Music for Online Video Creations
Tens of millions of consumers gain access to copyright-cleared independent music to synchronize with their personal media on the Internet
Hudson Valley, NY – March 6, 2007 – Pump Audio, the leading provider of quality independent music to content creators globally, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Photobucket to provide copyright-cleared, independent music to the tens of millions of Photobucket users who create and share remixes of their photos and videos using the Adobe® web-based video remix technology integrated on Photobucket’s site. Photobucket users can now easily add music from Pump Audio to their mashups.
Photobucket is the online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, and is the third largest video hosting site behind YouTube and MySpace. Pump Audio provides a proven, legal music solution with original songs perfectly suited for synchronizing to online productions. Photobucket has licensed hundreds of songs across dozens of genres from Pump Audio’s catalog of more than 75,000 tracks.
“Music truly brings a video creation to life, and it was important to us that our users be able to incorporate music into their remixes,” said Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket. “Pump Audio’s independent music solution helps Photobucket offer our users a wide selection of music that does not violate copyright infringement laws.”
Photobucket recently launched a web-based video remix and editing service, powered by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Using this remix service, Photobucket users can combine images, videos, text, and music provided by Pump Audio to create content mashups from their Photobucket albums, without requiring any additional downloads.
“User generated content, such as photo slideshows and video mashups, has created a significant opportunity for independent music,” said Steve Ellis, founder and CEO, Pump Audio. “Photobucket is an innovator in helping consumers bring their personal media to life, and shares our position that personal media communities can respect copyright law and also expose their users to high-quality independent music.”
Unlike stock music, Pump Audio’s catalog consists of real songs by thousands of independent artists worldwide. Because Pump Audio works directly with independent artists, it can offer a unique licensing system for managing and delivering the rights to use tracks in online productions. Pump Audio’s licensing model already has attracted major media customers, including MTV Networks, NBC Studios, HBO, New Line Cinema and advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. Under its artist-friendly system, Pump Audio splits licensing revenues with musicians, and the artists retain complete ownership over their music.
Working together, Pump Audio and Photobucket also are creating a new venue for participating artists to gain additional exposure to Photobucket’s massive user base. Pump Audio artists will receive a visual credit with information about the music being used in Photobucket mashups, creating a new promotional opportunity to directly reach potential fans. Photobucket users can embed their mashups into any web page, blog, or social network profile, and also share with family and friends, so artists will have the potential for broad exposure.
About Pump Audio
Pump Audio licenses the world's best independent music to content creators worldwide. Founded in 2001, Pump Audio has established itself as a leading provider of digital music for TV and advertising producers. Now Pump Audio is becoming the soundtrack of the Internet, opening Web access to its catalog of tens of thousands of songs so creators of all types can build music into their video and interactive productions. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while content creators can discover new music ready for use. Based in the
Hudson Valley, Pump Audio can be found at http://www.pumpaudio.com.
The mission of SF Connect is to mobilize residents and sectors for a stronger San Francisco. SF Connect is about engaged residents volunteering their talent and time for the City as well as innovative partnerships between the private, public, and social (nonprofit) sectors. Initiatives include Project Homeless, Green Connect, Youth and Families, and Tech Connect.
I have always enjoyed volunteering and supporting the community so I was excited when asked to speak on behalf of Photobucket for SFConnect's event at Self Help for the Elderly. Self-Help caters to a predominantly Cantonese speaking community and all presenters worked with a translator to speak about our companies and technologies.
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NetGear’s Skype demonstrated how one can call Hong Kong for two cents a minute. Google shared where one can find translation tools online. City College gave a brief overview on citizenship classes that they offer. ReliaTech discussed affordable options for purchasing laptops (As low as $150). For Photobucket, I guided the audience (with a translator) through the registration process and showed them how to upload their photos from their cameras to the web. Many of the attendees look forward to taking and sharing photos of their families and friends and were happy to learn about Photobucket's Free service. There was so much interest from the attendees that I was asked to present an in depth workshop in a classroom setting for their organization. I'm definitely looking forward to it. To learn more about SFConnect - http://www.sfconnect.org Julie works in Business Development for Photobucket |
Adobe will offer ad-supported Photoshop online
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday ...
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Freewebs Teams With Photobucket
Freewebs Members Can Now Instantaneously Add Photos, Slideshows and Videos Directly to Their Freewebs Sites and Blogs from Photobucket
SILVER SPRING, Md., and DENVER, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Freewebs, www.freewebs.com the world's easiest place to create multimedia websites and blogs has joined forces with Photobucket - the online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media. Now, Freewebs users are able to add photos, slideshows, videos, and remix videos from existing Photobucket accounts directly to Freewebs' publishing platform.
"This is just the first step in what's going to be a strong partnership," said Freewebs' President Shervin Pishevar. "Our 14 million members expect unprecedented ease of use from Freewebs to create multimedia sites and blogs. Photobucket's partnership and deployment of its JWidget allows members access to extensive libraries of still images and videos -- from their own albums and from publicly available content on Photobucket."
This relationship involves Photobucket's JWidget partner program along with Freeweb's soon-to-be released Remote Publishing API. Freeweb's API will allow users to post content directly to their Freewebs accounts from Photobucket and other popular online destinations.
"The online, engaged, and creative youth that are core to Photobucket's customer base want simple tools for self expression, and easy ways to share their content with their communities," said Alex Welch, CEO of Photobucket. "Freewebs is a great partner destination for that."
About Freewebs.com
For everyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs www.freewebs.com provides the toolkit to express their voice on the web through its versatile publishing platform. To date, Freewebs members have created more than 14 million comprehensive websites including blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, Md.
About Photobucket
Photobucket is the easiest and most reliable way for people to create, manage and share their personal media online. With more than 35 million users, Photobucket is a creative hub linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows, and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites -- including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga. In addition to linking, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. Photobucket users upload more than 7 million personal photos, graphics and videos to Photobucket every day, and the site is growing at a rate of 85,000 new users a day. Photobucket currently serves over 70% of all content links to social networking web sites and serves over 3 billion images and video requests every day. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners, and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at www.photobucket.com
Adobe is offering special discounts on several software packages just for Photobucket users!
Excited about editing your videos and want even more controls and tools at your fingertips? Photobucket users rejoice! Adobe is offering special discounts for Photobucket users on great products like Adobe® Premiere® Elements 3.0, Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0, and Vlog It!
Remix is currently available in Public Beta to Photobucket Pro users and will be available to all registered users sometime in March. If you are a Photobucket Pro user, you have access to this offer now.
Save US$30 instantly. Create a custom video in no time so you can get back to showing your creativity on Photobucket. Not only can you add amazing effects and transitions that can be customized, but also you can easily create stop-motion animation to add an interesting twist to your video, or create a freeze frame for a dramatic pause and upload your video to iPod and PSP devices. It's easy and fun with Adobe Premiere Elements!
Save US$20 instantly on Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 software for Windows®. It combines power and simplicity so you can make your photos look their best; show them off in creative, entertaining ways; and easily find and view all your photos and video clips.
Save US$20.00 instantly on the Macintosh version.
Vlog It! is the first PC software that allows you to easily create your own newscast or vlogs (video blogs) directly from your webcam. It’s great for video commenting too. Spice up your web page, blog, or video with your own voice and customized graphics and effects.
Peachpit
Commons
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, eWeek
Adobe Systems announced Feb. 21
that it has formed a partnership with Photobucket to bring its
Web-based video remix and editing technology to the Web, enabling Photobucket
users to access Adobe's video editing tools for free.
Adobe's Web-based video remix and
editing technology lets Photobucket users customize to drag and drop music,
effects, transitions and titles to videos while also allowing users to reorder,
trim and split clips.
"Our Web-based video remix and
editing technology is just one of the many ways that we are evolving our
business to satisfy the incredible demand for Web-based applications," said
Geoff Baum, group product manager at San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe.
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Photobucket has
launched a new service that will allow its 35 million users to do video editing
online with technology powered by Adobe. The Adobe Web based video remix and
editing technology is currently in Beta. Users can now combine photos, videos,
text, and music to create videos or mashups of content from their Photobucket
albums.
“At Photobucket we’re committed to
helping our users get the most out of their personal media, and have fun doing
so,” said Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket. “Collaborating with Adobe gives our
millions of users a simple way to create mashups that showcase their personality
and creativity. Users can either broadcast these mashups widely, or share with a
small group of friends and family.”
Photobucket users can combine images and
video with captions, bubbles, frames, transitions, and music by dragging and
dropping content to a sceneline. Users can work with content from their albums
or they can choose from the publicly shared images and videos on Photobucket.
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February 21,
2007
Photobucket
teams up with Adobe to offer free online video
mashups
Staff,
Graphic Exchange Network
Photobucket has announced the
launch of a new service that lets users combine images, videos, text, and music
to create personalized videos or “mashups” of content from their Photobucket
albums.
The Adobe video remix and editing
technology which drives Photobucket's new service is a Flash-based application
built using Adobe Flex. Adobe says that the Photobucket toolset, currently being
offered as a beta application, offers "a simplified interface, introducing
consumers to video editing they can quickly master."
Adobe’s video remix and editing technology,
which requires Adobe Flash 9, opens directly in the browser on Photobucket’s
website. It is initially available via limited public beta to Photobucket Pro
users, and will be available for free to Photobucket’s entire user base of 35
million members by early March 2007. For more information, visit http://blog.photobucket.com
Jacqui
Cheng, Ars Technica
Adobe and Photobucket announced a
partnership today that will allow Photobucket's 35 million users to do basic
video editing online through the web. The tools will be implemented in a browser
using Flash and will enable users to remix their photos and home videos with
other elements, such as music, video captions, and transitions—all without the
use of dedicated video editing software.
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Adobe is
bringing its video editing tools online through multimedia storage site
Photobucket, which would make them available for free. The application would be
based on technologies used in Adobe's Premiere product, it
said.
"We aim to simplify the powerful editing and compositing capabilities that make Adobe software the undisputed creative leader, so that anyone can post eye-catching compositions online," Adobe creative solutions senior vice president John Loiacono said in a statement.
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Creative software developer Adobe
Systems, makers of popular tools like Photoshop and Flash, will be cutting its
spending on print advertising to spend more on online advertising, says
Marketing Week.
According to the publication, Adobe
has seen a lot of success with print advertising, but has decided to pay more
attention to the Web. Today, the company announced that it would be working with
Photobucket to provide the online photo sharing service with a suite of online
video-editing tools based on Adobe Premier and powered by Flash. Adobe acquired
Flash when it purchased Macromedia in 2005 for $3.4 billion in
stock.
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Well, it's been speculated for some
time, but Adobe just announced it's partnership with Photobucket, to integrate Flex-based video
editing capabilities into the popular photo and video hosting site. As noted in
the release, this should be the first of many such partnerships over the
coming months, and I'm really looking forward to digging into the Adobe
RIA-powered editing experience, myself.
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http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2007/02/adobe_photobuck.cfm
The Photobucket announcement is
just the first of many, Adobe says. The company expects to announce more
partnerships with Internet companies and media properties over the coming
months. All of the online services will be free and ad-supported.
More at:
Yesterday, Adobe and Photobucket
announced a partnership to introduce basic online video editing capabilities
into Photobucket. Once the flash based video editor is implemented, users can
perform rudimentary functions like remixing their photos and home videos with
music, video caption and transition. The web-based video editor is also said
to have clip trimming and splitting features as well.
More at:
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Photobucket an online personal media company where over 35
million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, today
announced the launch of a new service, featuring lightweight, web-based video
remix and editing technology powered by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The Adobe
web-based video remix and editing technology is available online as part of the
Photobucket user experience, and is currently offered as a Beta application.
Photobucket users can now combine images, videos, text, and music to create
personalized videos or “mashups” of content from their Photobucket albums,
without requiring any additional downloads.
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Today, I was pleasantly surprise to
read a press
release that Adobe has partnered with Photobucket to deliver a new
lightweight remix and video editing tools right into Photobucket's site. The
same useability concepts taken from Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are
applied, and I am so excited to try it out myself. Premiere Elements is so
much fun, easy to use and very intuitive, I sometimes even forget the
complexities of the science behind video editing. If you're only starting out,
the idea gallery is a good
place to start.
More at:
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Adobe Adds Video Editing Tools to Photobucket
Site
Staff,
Graphics.com
Photobucket lets its users create,
manage and share their personal media online and has racked up some impressive
numbers. Founded in 2003, the site has more than 35 million members, and serves
an astonishing 3 billion media items daily, via members links from such sites as
MySpace, eBay, Craigslist and Blogger. Adobe's Premiere line of video editing
tools includes both Elements and Pro, and with the upcoming integration
Photobucket users will be able to make use of a Flash-driven implementation that
lets them add drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to their
videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips. Users can work with content
from their own albums or access over 2.5 billion publicly-shared images and
videos on Photobucket.
More at:
http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3521
Photobucket users can now edit
video they upload to the service using a suite of online tools, thanks to a deal
with Adobe.
Adobe has launched its Flash-based
online video remix and editing technology in partnership with Photobucket. The
free service will be driven by advertising revenue, the partners hope.
The plan extends of Adobe's
existing video editing products — including Premiere, which will soon return to
the Mac platform — as online services.
More at:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=17297
Adobe’s web-based video-editing
technology will be delivered online when it’s integrated into the free image and
video-hosting service, Photobucket.
Adobe’s web-based video editor will
launch directly in the browser on the Photobucket website and allow users free
and direct access to video-editing tools to perform a variety of operations such
as dragging and dropping music, effects, titles and transitions to videos. It
will be delivered as a lightweight Adobe Flash application and will
therefore be accessible to more than 700 million computers that support Flash
Player software.
More at:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8499
Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Photobucket have teamed up to give the site's 35 million
subscribers free access to basic video remixing and editing technology online.
With the first-of-its-kind offering, users can incorporate music, effects,
transitions and titles into their videos.
More at:
Photobucket
Debuts New Video Remixer
Michael
Calore and Scott Gilbertson, Wired Blogs
Earlier this week Adobe and Photobucket announced
a partnership to bring some Adobe Premier-like editing and remixing capabilities
to Photobucket users. The new tool lets users take video clips and images, and
remix, caption and enhance them to create new movies which can then be shared
with the world at large.
More at:
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/photobucket_deb.html
The
online versions of Adobe's Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products are
augmented by a partnership with Photobucket.
Adobe Systems on
Wednesday unveiled plans to supply online video-editing tools to Web sites in
return for sharing ad revenue, and said Photobucket would be its first partner
in the new venture.
The maker of software
for creative professionals said
it was entering a "new stage" in offering over the Web capabilities found
within its flagship Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products. In making
portions of these tools available on Web sites, Adobe hopes to grab a piece of
the booming online advertising market, and introduce its products to people who
may eventually decide to upgrade to the desktop software versions.
Photobucket plans to make Adobe's tools
available in March to all of its more than 35 million users. The tools are
currently available in beta only to Photobucket Pro customers. The site lets
registered users edit and upload
video
or photos, and share them with others. They can also broadcast them publicly and
post their creations on other sites, such as EBay, online classified ad site
Craigslist, and social networks MySpace
and Facebook. Photobucket claims to have 17.6 million visitors a month.
More at:
The online versions of Adobe's
Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products are augmented by a partnership with
Photobucket.
Adobe Systems on Wednesday unveiled
plans to supply online video-editing tools to Web sites in return for sharing ad
revenue, and said Photobucket would be its first partner in the new venture.
The maker of software
for creative professionals said
it was entering a "new stage" in offering over the Web capabilities found
within its flagship Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products. In making
portions of these tools available on Web sites, Adobe hopes to grab a piece of
the booming online advertising market, and introduce its products to people who
may eventually decide to upgrade to the desktop software versions.
More at:
Online media hosting company Photobucket has announced a limited beta
trial of lightweight
online video editing tools from Adobe. The video editing tools are offered as a
Flash-based application built with Adobe Flex, and aims to offer
video editing capabilities Adobe first brought to market with
Premier. The online tools offer a simplified, consumer-oriented interface
enabling users to combine images and video with captions, bubbles, frames,
transitions, music, and other effects via drag-and-drop. The tools enable users
to re-order content and clips, trim elements, and split directly into the
sceneline all from a Web-based interface. Via Photobucket, users have access to
more than 2.5 billion public images and video clips they can use in their own
productions.
More at:
February 23,
2007
High-tech entrepreneurs grapple
with build-or-sell dilemma
Michael
Liedtke, Associated Press
Denver-based Photobucket also
prefers to remain independent as it strives to nearly double its registered
users to 60 million by the end of this year, said Alex Welch, who has raised
about $15 million in venture capital since co-founding the site in 2003.
Photobucket's 35 million members currently upload about 7 million photos and
35,000 videos per day – second only to YouTube and
MySpace.
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Remix and mashup service to create video remixes from your own media (photos, artwork, videos) available to all. Check it out now!
In February 2007, we announced our partnership with Adobe to provide a fun, free video remix tool for our users. Since then it's only been available under beta to our "Pro" users. As of today, the service is now available to all our Photobucket users.
What is the remix service?
It is a 100% Free web-based mashup tool that let’s you create video remixes from your own media (photos, artwork, videos) and publicly available content at Photobucket. Add captions, text bubbles, and other effects with any of the songs that we have available to tell your stories and share your experiences. This service is powered by Adobe.
What can I do with remix?
You can create stylish, fun, and playful videos that show off your personality, stories, and ideas. Play around with your pictures and videos and add music to your remix. When you’re done, you can share your remixed video by posting it on your profile, blog, or other website.
How do I create a remix?
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You'll see this Remix button in your album. This will launch a walkthrough and demo of how to create your own remix. You can also reference the tutorial to find more details. |
Add music to your remixes
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Photobucket has been working with Pump Audio who have been a great partner for supplying fantastic tracks for our users and their remixes. We'll have more music available by end of March 2007. |
Create something cool and want to share it with us? Send us your remix links to pbfeedback@photobucket.com
Adobe Brings Video Editing Tools Online
Photobucket Relationship Highlights Strategy of Delivering Simple, High-Impact Creative Software to Millions
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 21, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) is pioneering a new way to deliver its industry leading creative software technologies online, with the launch of its web-based video remix and editing technology. Today, Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership to integrate Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology directly into the Photobucket user experience, giving 35 million Photobucket users direct, free access to world-class digital video editing tools. The agreement marks a new stage in Adobe’s delivery of its renowned video software technologies that today underpin flagship products such as Adobe® Premiere® Elements and Adobe Premiere Pro.
The company expects to announce more partnerships with Internet companies and media properties over the coming months. These free services are expected to be driven by advertising revenue - and by offering customers simple upgrade paths to Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop® Elements software, both market leaders in the home digital video and photo editing space.
“Making Photobucket ‘Adobe powered’ with web-based video remix and editing technology will radically change the user experience for millions of Photobucket devotees and also up-level the quality and variety of content being distributed by this passionate community,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “We aim to simplify the powerful editing and compositing capabilities that make Adobe software the undisputed creative leader, so that anyone can post eye-catching compositions online.”
Today’s agreement with Photobucket points the way to the kind of future partnerships and breakthrough user experiences Adobe anticipates. Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology is an easy-to-use video editor that allows consumers the creative freedom to infuse personality and dramatic impact into their stories before releasing them to a broader online audience. Users can drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips.
Delivered as a lightweight Adobe Flash® application and built using Adobe Flex™ software, Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology is accessible to the more than 700 million personal computers that today support Adobe Flash Player software. Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology launches directly in the browser on Photobucket’s web site, with no time-consuming downloads or platform compatibility questions to deter users from uploading and editing their videos. The new video editing capabilities in Photobucket are initially available via limited public beta to Photobucket Pro users, and will be available for free to Photobucket’s entire user base of 35 million members by early March 2007.
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information - anytime, anywhere and through any medium. For more information, visit www.adobe.com
Photobucket Brings Free We-Based Video Editing to Millions of Photobucket Users
New Adobe lightweight, web-based video remix and editing technology enables Photobucket users to quickly and easily add creative expression to their online personal media
February 21, 2007 – Palo Alto, Calif. – Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com), the online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, today announced the launch of a new service, featuring lightweight, web-based video remix and editing technology powered by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology is available online as part of the Photobucket user experience, and is currently offered as a Beta application. Photobucket users can now combine images, videos, text, and music to create personalized videos or “mashups” of content from their Photobucket albums, without requiring any additional downloads.
“At Photobucket we’re committed to helping our users get the most out of their personal media, and have fun doing so,” said Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket. “Collaborating with Adobe gives our millions of users a simple way to create mashups that showcase their personality and creativity. Users can either broadcast these mashups widely, or share with a small group of friends and family.”
“For the tens of millions of people who place their videos online, it is no longer good enough to simply post and share them – people want their videos to be compelling compared to other content,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president, of the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. “Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology gives consumers an easy-to-use, ‘no experience required’ approach to web-based video editing that will help their stories stand out. We have fully integrated our tools into the Photobucket experience, enabling anyone who has Adobe® Flash® Player installed on their PC to use it.”
Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology is a Flash-based application built using Adobe Flex™, and delivers high quality video editing capabilities pioneered by Adobe Premiere® Pro and Premiere Elements. Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology offers a simplified interface, introducing consumers to video editing they can quickly master.
Using Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology, Photobucket users can combine images and video with captions, bubbles, frames, transitions, music, and other effects by dragging and dropping content to a sceneline. Clips and content can be reordered, trimmed, and split directly in the sceneline in a web-based environment. Users can work with content from their own albums, or access over 2.5 billion publicly-shared images and videos on Photobucket.
Once editing is complete, the resulting video mashup can be embedded into any web page, blog, or social network profile by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML code. The mashup can also be shared with family and friends using Photobucket’s built-in sharing tools. Photobucket recently launched features to enable quick and easy posting to blog services and social networks such as Blogger, Xanga, LiveJournal, MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook directly from within a Photobucket album.
Photobucket launched video hosting as an integral part of its service offering in April of 2006. Now, more than 35,000 videos are uploaded to Photobucket albums every day, making Photobucket the third largest video hosting site after YouTube and MySpace. Photobucket video is free to all its users, and members can upload videos in any standard video format (mpeg, avi, Divx, etc).
Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology is a free, lightweight, Adobe Flash based web application. It opens directly in the browser on Photobucket’s website, and requires Adobe Flash 9 to operate.
Product Availability
Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology is initially available via limited public beta to Photobucket Pro users, and will be available for free to Photobucket’s entire user base of 35 million members by early March 2007. Users can access the product directly from their albums by clicking on a button in their album. For more information on the feature, users should visit Photobucket’s blog at http://blog.photobucket.com.
About Photobucket
Photobucket is the easiest and most reliable way for people to create, manage and share their personal media online. Photobucket is the web’s most popular creative hub, linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows, and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites, including: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger, Xanga and others. Photobucket’s more than 35 million users upload more than 7 million personal photos, graphics and videos to Photobucket every day, and the site is growing at a rate of 85,000 new users a day. Photobucket currently serves over 70% of all content links to social networking web sites and serves over 3 billion images and video requests every day. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at www.photobucket.com
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Money & Finance
The number of video-sharing
sites seems to rise every day. MySpace, owned by News Corp. (NYSE:NWS), has
gotten on board. So has photo site Photobucket. But Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG)
YouTube remains the largest.
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From your web browser, you can drag and drop images, videos, text, and music to create personalized remix videos. Add captions, transitions, arrows, thought bubbles and other effects in moments to create your stories and share them with your world.
Click to enlarge images.
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Photobucket to launch
Flash-based online video editor
Martin LaMonica, CNET
Webware
Photobucket and Adobe Systems on Monday are expected
to announce a Web-based video-editing tool available from Photobucket's
media-sharing site. The free service will be in beta this month to its premium
customers and rolled out to all customers in March.
The service lets people
take existing media, including photos and videos, stored in a Photobucket
account and remix them with captions, soundtracks and other effects. Like any
video-editing package, people can drop items, like video snippets, and place
them onto a timeline.
More at:
http://www.webware.com/8300-1_109-2.html?authorId=128&tag=blog
Newest Flash Tools on
Display at Photobucket
The latest Flash
photo/video/sound editing tools that we mentioned last week are now enabled at
Photobucket for premium users, and will go live for all users in March. Geoff
Baum at Adobe confirmed that these tools are not yet available anywhere on the
web except for Photobucket.
The new tool allows
PhotoBucket users to mash up photos, video and stock music files into a single
slide show/video and then display those mashups on any website. The screen shots
below help describe some of what they are doing, but the key changes that make
the tools better than what Motionbox, JumpCut (acquired by Yahoo), and Cuts are offering on the video side and
Slide and RockYou on the photo side are just how fast and easy it is to make one
of these. I stopped by the Photobucket offices earlier this week for a run
through, and we created a photo and video mashup and added music in a matter of
moments. An example:
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Find something that you like while browsing through Photobucket?
You can add it to your album to include in your own slideshows or remixes by simply clicking on the “Send to my album” icon above the image or video..
Try it out!
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Photobucket, Cuts.com,
and new video editing tools
Matt Marshall, Venture
Beat
Photobucket, a Silicon Valley start-up, has quietly become the third largest video hosting
site after YouTube and MySpace — reporting more than 35,000 videos uploaded
every day.
Next Tuesday, it announces
some extensive image and video editing tools it hopes will help keep bringing
people to the site. These users can post the edited versions to any of several
popular sites, such as MySpace, Faceboo or Bebo.
These Photobucket editing
tools, to be announced in a partnership with Adobe (the company that makes the
popular Flash technology used for video editing), could take the wind out of the
sails of smaller competitors.
Photobucket will let you
edit by adding captions, bubbles, frames, transitions, music, and other effects
— and by dragging and dropping the resulting content to a “sceneline” (you can
get a sense of the editing dashboard in screenshots below). The service goes
live shortly for paying Photobucket users, and then to the other regular 35
million users in March.
Denver
Business JournalPhotobucket has formed a partnership with
Adobe Systems Inc. that will give users the
ability to combine images, videos, text and music to create personalized
"mashups" of content from their Photobucket albums, the companies said Thursday.
The new tools will enable
members of Photobucket, an image-hosting and photo-sharing Web site, to enjoy a
"more full experience," CEO Alex Welch said.
More at:
http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/02/12/daily42.html?jst=b_ln_hl
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MySpace Icons are now bubbled up to their own category. All your glitters, emoticons, and comments are in one place. Check it out! |
You’ll notice a few subtle changes that we hope will make it easier than ever to search for and discover new images and videos on Photobucket.
The "find stuff" link on the navigation bar links directly to the latest uploads, top search results, and popular categories of images that is available from the billions of image and video files available at Photobucket. Check it out.
Let us know what you think of these changes by dropping us a comment. We look forward to hearing from you!
The little gamer inside of us is thrilled to come across this promotion of Tomb Raider Chronicles using Photobucket to showcase some really fun fan art.
Tomb Raider Chronicles has joined forces Eidos plc to bring you an exclusive competition whereby two lucky winners will have a chance to be immortalised in Tomb Raider history by having their own names appear in the credits of Tomb Raider Anniversary.
To take part, we're asking fans to download a stunning render of Lara Croft and dress up in their own country colours. Our Lara Croft render comes in three flavours. Two JPEG versions (Lara on black and Lara on white) and a special transparent PSD for those with a flair for Adobe Photoshop.
Entries can be emailed or uploaded to www.photobucket.com, and posted on this special thread on Tomb Raider Forums. The cream of the crop will be published exclusively on our Tomb Raider Anniversary microsite located here.
Two winning entries will be selected end of February 2007, and both will have their names embedded in Tomb Raider history by appearing in the credits of Tomb Raider Anniversary. Runner up prizes includes copies of Tomb Raider Anniversary, and lots of additional goodies. Good luck, and happy raiding!
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Photobucket Sharing
We've boosted our share functionality to make it easier than ever to share your images, slideshows, and videos with your online community. Click on "Share Album" to see all the new options. You can share by email, or post your album directly to MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, Blogger, Friendster, Piczo or Tagged -- right from within Photobucket. It's never been so quick or easy to share.
Everywhere you see the "Share" link, you'll want to click on it to see all your options.
New Slideshows. Now over 30 different styles!
Create your next slideshow with Hip-Hop, R&B, FlyBy, or Hearts (Just in time for Valentine.s Day!). Make or edit a slideshow, and then click on New Styles to see the new choices.
For Your Sweetie
We are absolutely in love with these cute mugs just chock full of chocolate kisses. Order by February 8th and have it in time for Valentine.s Day. Get 15% off when you enter the discount code HEARTS. Pro users save an additional 10%.
January 31, 2007
AlwaysOn: Engaging Contagious Behavior w/Digg Yelp Photobucket CEOs
Allen Stern, Center Networks
AlwaysOn is holding a workshop about how to engage contagious behavior. The panel includes Jay Adelson, Digg CEO, Jeremy Stoppleman, Yelp CEO and Alex Welch, CEO Photobucket.
Panel workshop now completed. Comments below from the panel. If there is an interest, I can post audio and video from the session.
Img by Allen Stern
Moderator: What is the definition of contagious behaviour?
Jay - engaging consumers is contagious.
Alex - i think of external and internal for contagious behavior. Includes the team - we grew from 1 to 60 pretty quick and how do you gt the culture to come together as a team. And the outbound part with listening to your consumers.
Esther - teaching users how to take control. Esther starts right out by shilling her company.
This Week's Cutting Edge Podcast with Photobucket's Alex Welch
Heather Green, BusinessWeek
On the Cutting Edge Podcast this week, I chatted with Alex Welch, the CEO and co-founder of Photobucket, the very popular social media sharing site that is adding 80,000 new subscribers daily for a total of 35 million registered subscribers.
Welch talks about how they're tackling advertising, the importance of moderating content, and why he's not all that worried about whether MySpace wants to cut Photobucket out of the social network.
podcasting: http://www.businessweek.com/mediacenter/podcasts/podcasting/current.html
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2007/01/this_weeks_cutt_5.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting
It’s always been the people who use Photobucket every day that inspire us to work harder to create, improve, and build new features that lets individuals and communities connect and share their lives. It’s not just the rock stars like Mandy Moore, Fiona Apple, or Anthrax(still accepting entries for their best mullet memories).
It is the everyday users, teens, families, small business owners, and bloggers that remind us of our mission and that inspires us to keep moving forward.
Here are a few stories that caught our eyes.
Dave O’Brien, the yearbook photographer for Dover Highschool in 1970 recently reconnected with hundreds of alumni whom he hadn’t communicated with in years when he pulled together an album of his scanned photographs. Photographs of classmates, friends, teachers, and the bands that he’d followed over the years were all uploaded and shared from his Photobucket account. It’s an absolutely amazing time capsule.
Sam, a crafts artist who blogs at Gollywobbles.com has used Photobucket for quite some time and created a slide show gallery of her artwork that she’s successfully sold on Ebay --also using Photobucket.
Thousands and thousands of teens every day use Photobucket to decorate, customize, and personalize their web identities using background images for their MySpace templates, leaving funny comments, and searching for laughs. Our top search results are nearly always around glitters, sparkles, avatars and icons. Who knew that the phrase "Thanks for the Add" would become so ubiquitous?
And then there are the bloggers.
2000 Bloggers are listed on this fantastic project by Tino Buntic collecting headshots and links from around the blogosphere. All different people, all different interests, all different blogs. Just 2000 faces from the 55 million out there writing and blogging every day. And guess what, all these headshots are hosted on Photobucket too and we recognize quite a few as Photobucket users.
The MySpace Ecosystem: A Survival Guide
A slew of companies have sprung up to help kids decorate their pages—and many won't make it
Anastasia Goodstein, BusinessWeek
Teens love to make stuff their own—be it writing on a favorite pair of jeans, plastering notebooks with stickers, or decorating lockers with photos of friends or celebrities. It's a natural part of forming one's identity to tell the world, "Look at me. I have these friends, support these causes, and love these bands." And as social networking sites and blogging communities have become virtual spaces for adolescents to call their own, it's natural that kids want to decorate them, too.
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B5 has new music and new contests with their fans and they're using Photobucket to support this very exciting promotion.
Upload images, slideshows, and video tributes and send the links over to b5artwork AT Gmail.com
We've totally boosted our share functionality to make it easier than ever to share your images, slideshows, and videos to your online community.
Check it out.
So whether you're the queen of your crew on Tagged or the Bee's Knees on Bebo, or the Big Man on campus with Facebook, you've got easy, fast, and fun ways to share your Photobucket.
Writers, Photographers, and Videographers of all cheese-sandwich-y bloggy things will also note that you can "Share" to your blog automagically Xanga, Blogger, Typepad, etc.
If you're old school and just want to email your friends a few giggles, we've got you covered there too. You can even import your address book from Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, or Hotmail so that sharing is always easy and at your fingertips.
Everywhere you see the "Share" link, you'll want to click on it to open up all your options.
For walkthroughs on specific social networks/blogging applications, check out our tutorials!
And of course the most awesome new things you'll want to share with all your friends will be one of Photobucket’s new slideshows!
Check them out under "New Styles" when you're on the "Create New Slideshows" page. You'll find Hip-Hop, R&B, FlyBy, and Hearts (Awwww... just in time for Valentines day!) styled slideshows there for you. We now have over 30 styles!
Check out this one for Fiona Apple!
We gush because we're big fans and delighted that Fiona Apple has joined the growing roster of extraordinarily cool musicians who are using Photobucket.
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Update
Looks like things are fixed now.
Thanks!
******
MySpace is preventing users from embedding new slideshows and videos. We have verified that nothing is wrong on our side. Please contact MySpace with your questions and concerns.
-The Photobucket Team
We will never admit to a mullet.
And if you talk to our mom to try and get evidence, we'll find you and we'll, well... probably whine pitifully. But then again maybe not. Because that wouldn't be very hard core. And actually, Photobucket is pretty hard core.
We've launched a promotion with Anthrax. (Yes! Anthrax!)
And are banging our heads to the nostalgia.
Here's the details on our promotion with them.
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The '80s was just a bad hair DECADE... Was (or is in some cases) your hair business in front, party in the back? Feathered like a majestic bird? Did you create a hole in the Ozone Layer with reckless hairspray use?
ANTHRAX, though never achieving the hair majesty of say Poison, Dokken or Bon Jovi, always been one of the finest coiffed band around and we've got the pics to prove it. Do you?
Then send in your pics to AnthraxPhoto@gmail.com now! Scan in your yearbook photos, party pics, mug shots - whatever you got and upload them on Photobucket.com.
Whoever submits the photo voted as the absolute WORST will be crowned KING or QUEEN MULLET!!!
First Prize - A makeover in your town - Get a new hairdo or maybe just refine that mullet!
Runnerups - Will receive Anthrax merch, always in fashion!
What are you waiting for? Your mullet tips to finish bleaching? - SIGNUP NOW!!!!!!!!
Contest Rules:
1.Upload your photos to Photobucket.com and email the image URL to AnthraxPhoto@gmail.com
2. Include your name and Myspace URL so we can notify you if you are selected as a winner
3. No sexually explicit images
Contest ends February 16, 2007
Anthrax Guitarist Looking For Fans With Bad Hair
Staff, The Gauntlet
ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has issued the following blog:
"And you thought the embarrassment was over...
The '80s was just a bad hair decade... Was (or is, in some cases) your hair business in front, party in the back? Feathered like a majestic bird? Did you create a hole in the Ozone Layer with reckless hairspray use?
Anthrax, though never achieving the hair majesty of say POISON, DOKKEN or BON JOVI, always been one of the finest coiffed band around and we've got the pics to prove it. Do you?
Then send in your pics to AnthraxPhoto@gmail.com now! Scan in your yearbook photos, party pics, mug shots - whatever you got and upload them on Photobucket.com. Whoever submits the photo voted as the absolute Worst will be crowned King or Queen Mullet!
More at:
http://www.thegauntlet.com/article/29/7056/Anthrax.html
Photobucket Selected by AlwaysOn Media as Top 100 Private Company Award Winner
Recognized for Leadership in Emerging Technology
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com), the online personal media company where over 32 million people create, manage and share their digital lives, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn Media as one of the Top 100 Private Company award winners. The AO Media 100 is a power list of the top private digital media companies. The AO Media editorial team selected winners based on a set of five criteria – innovation, market potential, customer adoption, media buzz and investor value creation.
Photobucket and the AO Media 100 will be honored at the AO Media executive summit January 29-31 at The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York City. The summit will focus on the forces that are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the digital era, showcasing top innovative private companies that are revolutionizing the way media is created, distributed and consumed.
The AO Media 100 was selected from over a 1,000 companies, peer-nominated by leading venture capitalists, investment bankers and industry analysts. The AO Media 100 consists of private companies at all stages of development.
Photobucket, founded in 2003, has become the leading personal media hub delivering billions of personal photos, graphics and videos daily to over 300,000 different websites – including Bebo, Piczo, MySpace, Blogger, and LiveJournal – and enables sharing via email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. ComScore Networks reports that Photobucket is one the top 50 most visited websites, with 15.7 million unique visitors per month. Photobucket’s user base has grown 300% over the past year since September 2005, driven by consumer demand for a fast and easy way to share personal digital content using one central online hub. On December 1st, 2005, Photobucket reached the 30 million user mark.
“We scoured hundreds of applications we received to vote on the top emerging private technology companies,” said Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. “Selected are the companies we think are demonstrating significant market traction or pursuing game-changing technology. We expect these organizations to have a big impact for both New York and Silicon Valley.”
“We are honored to have been selected from over a thousand companies for this award. There are a lot of great, innovative technology companies out there today so we are very proud to be recognized as one of the elite few by AlwaysOn,” said Alex Welch, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Photobucket. “Our focus is providing our 32 million users with the creative control to manage and share their digital media content in new ways.”
A full list of all the AO Media 100 companies can be found on the AlwaysOn website at http://alwayson.goingon.com/permalink/post/8813
About Photobucket
Photobucket is the easiest and most reliable way for people to create, manage and share their personal media online. With more than 32 million users, Photobucket is a creative hub linking billions of personal photos, graphics and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites—including MySpace, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger, Bebo and Xanga. In addition to linking, Photobucket users share images and videos by email, instant messaging and mobile devices. Everyday over 7 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 Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at www.photobucket.com
About OnHollywood 2006: May 2-4 @ The Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood
AlwaysOn Hollywood is where cutting-edge technology CEOs from the back streets of Silicon Valley meets the Hollywood digital entertainment and media elite. This two-and-a-half-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the video, music, gaming, search, and mobile industries.
At AlwaysOn Hollywood, our editors will also honor the AO Hollywood 100 Top Private Companies. Fifty of the top CEOs from the AO Hollywood 100 will pitch their market strategies to a panel of industry experts in our “CEO Showcase.”
About AlwaysOn
ALWAYSON ignited the open-media revolution in early 2003 by being the first media brand to launch a global blog network. In 2004, ALWAYSON continued to lead the media industry in innovation by introducing a social network where members can connect and engage. ALWAYSON is also revolutionizing the media business by applying its open-media principles to its executive event series (STANFORD SUMMIT, ALWAYSON HOLLYWOOD, ALWAYSON MEDIA and GOINGGREEN) and quarterly print “blogozine” by empowering its members to post and share their ideas and meet each other online. As our loyal readers know, ALWAYSON is committed to the free-market, merit-driven approach to reporting and event programming. No other media brand has dared to create such open interaction with its readers and event participants.
... gave us a really nice shoutout the other day and we wanted to say thanks. Looks like they're doing some cool things too and it's worth checking out!
Did you take pictures or videos of the Family Values Tour last year?
Send in your most memorable pictures, videos, or create a slideshow from your images and send your links to!
fvtphoto@gmail.com and enter to win a FREE COPY of the Newly Released Family Values Tour DVD!
Contest Ends February 9th
Winners will be Notified February 14th!
Contest Rules:
1. Upload your images to Photobucket.com and Email the Image, Slideshow, or Video links to FVTPhoto@Gmail.com
2. Tell us what City and Year your photo is from
3. Include your Name and Myspace URL in the body of the email so we can Notify you if you are selected as a winner.
4. Images, Slideshows, and Videos MUST comply to Photobucket Terms of Service.
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SAMPLE Email:
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Subject:
Photobucket Family Values Contest!
Body:
MJ K*****, http://www.myspace.com/photobucket
City: San Francisco
Year: 2006
http://s119.photobucket.com/albums/o129/familyvalues_pb/?action=view¤t=1167777064.pbw
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And get ready for the Family Values Tour in 2007
