- Address: 209 Hamilton Avenue
- Palo Alto CA 94301
- Country: US
- Blog: http://blog.photobucket.com
- Founded: June 2003
- Employees: 60
Overview
Photobucket is the Internet's largest photo and video hub, offering image storage, linking and creative remixing tools, such as slide shows and video editing functions for consumers.
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Photobucket
Product URL: http://www.photobucket.com
Photobucket is an personal media hosting service founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal. The service took a total of $15 million in investment before being acquired by MySpace for $250 million in May of 2007. Their main revenue streams are through premium accounts and advertising.
With Photobucket, members can choose from free or paid plans to store and share their images and videos. Free accounts provide 1 GB of free storage (~10,000 images), 10 GB of bandwidth, and limited image sizes and content length. For $25 a year, members can upgrade to a Pro account, which provides 5 GB of storage, unlimited bandwidth, larger images, higher quality images, longer video and slideshows, and a 10% discount on prints.
Photobucket experienced tremendous growth throughout 2006, claiming 2% of US traffic by April of that year. The company spent 2006 enhancing their product with the addition of some new slideshow and video editing tools in February of 2007. Because Photobucket had not structured itself as a destination site, their main channel of growth was through social networking sites like MySpace. At one point Photobucket served 63% of all media links on the site. By contrast, Yahoo owned Flickr accounted for about 8%.
This dependence came into play in mid 2007 when MySpace supposedly strong armed the company by shutting off the service on their site during acquisition talks. Photobucket had been a rumored acquisition target since March of that year, with investment bank Lehman Brothers alledgedly shopping the company around for a $300-400 million sale. Photobucket eventually sold for $250 million to Fox Interactive Media (FIM) - the parent company for MySpace, which amounted to a price of about $13 per unique user, which was a steal compared to YouTube's acquisition at $67 per unique.
Photobucket has over 41 million registered users, is the #33 website property in the US, and receives over 19.0 million unique visitors / month in the US. There are 30.0 million uniques / month worldwide (source: April 2007, comScore Media Metrix.)
There are more than 1.9 billion images stored on Photobucket. In addition to photo and video storage functionality, Photobucket offers linking into third-party websites, email and mobile applications. The company has also remix tools such as slide shows and video-editing functionality.
People
| Alex Welch | Co-founder and CEO |
| Darren Crystal | Co-founder and CTO |
| Michael Clark | VP, Technology |
| Greg Wimmer | VP, Finance & Administration |
| Peter Foster | VP, Sales |
| Heather Dana | VP, Customer Service |
| Peter Pham | VP, Business Development |
| Scott Penberthy | VP, Engineering |
| Alice Lankester | Sr. Dir., Product Marketing |
| Alex Musil | Sr. Dir., Product Management |
| Gus Tai | Partner |
Funding
| Date | Round | Size | Investors |
| March 05 | Series A | $3.00M |
Insight Venture Partners |
| May 06 | Series B | $10.50M |
Trinity Ventures |
| Date | Purchase Price | Acquirer | May 07 | $300.00M |
Fox Interactive Media, News Corporation |
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- jenly-annJanuary 9, 2008 at 5:14pm
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- TAKEYADecember 23, 2007 at 8:40am
I WANT TO PUT A PICTURE PROFILE
- Gary NewmanNovember 29, 2007 at 1:50pm
i love this site
- JonNovember 28, 2007 at 9:33am
Slight correction to my prior post. PhotoBucket has size limitations on files uploaded - MyOtherDrive.com does not. Just wanted to make sure this was clear.
- JonNovember 28, 2007 at 8:37am
I used to be a PhotoBucket user, but have since switched to http://www.myotherdrive.com. They offer more free storage 5GB, permit bulk uploads of files, with limitations on image size. The site let's me provide hyperlink (URL) access to my stored content - great for MySpace, FaceBook, eBay, etc. The site is young - they do not have search / tagging yet, but when I spoke to them about it, they said that was coming very soon.
- John HartNovember 27, 2007 at 10:21am
This site is great,but needs to do a better search and relevance matching. Takes a long time to get where you need to be.
- sabriaNovember 27, 2007 at 8:01am
photobucket got too much stuff on here nd also it take to long to update picture nd load fast
- jhgfhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhNovember 26, 2007 at 12:42pm
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- GeorgeNovember 26, 2007 at 10:23am
Is anyone monitoring the posts on this site? Language is a bit rough for someone who came to this site the first time looking to possibly open an account. I think I'll go elsewhere, where people can speak with intelligence and spell.
- Dana allenNovember 26, 2007 at 8:04am
hey i really like you love pics and comedy pics and alot of others but the most is love because it makes me think about love and stuff thanks for having this webs site Dana
- [krunk]November 23, 2007 at 10:43am
:D
- ALONDRANovember 20, 2007 at 12:42pm
FUCK ALL YOU BICTH THAT HATE ON THIS
- ALEXNovember 16, 2007 at 1:41pm
DUMB BiTCHEZZZ!
- photobucket get ur act straighNovember 2, 2007 at 4:21am
who does maintenance time at friday 8:30 pm in Austalia when users are using. it says short period yet it's been almost an hour!! dammit
- evansOctober 21, 2007 at 9:52am
hey i want help
- RileyOctober 11, 2007 at 11:27am
I agree with briana. You should put a link on here.
- brianaAugust 30, 2007 at 7:40am
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