Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from Trinity Ventures.[1] [2] Photobucket is usually used for personal photographic albums, remote storage of avatars displayed on internet forums, and storage of videos. Photobucket’s image hosting is often used for eBay, MySpace, Bebo and Facebook accounts, LiveJournals or other blogs, and message boards. They advertise 99.9% uptime, and offer 1 GB free storage (10 GB with paid account), 25 GB free bandwidth (unlimited with paid account). Photobucket currently has Terms of Service that disallows nudity.[3] Photobucket supports FTP, but the user must be a Pro account holder. [4] Windows XP Publisher is supported as an alternative to FTP. It is available in free accounts. [5]
Photobucket was named the fastest growing site of 2005 according to Nielsen/Netratings and now ranks as a Top 50 site by traffic according to ComScore.[6] As of May 10, 2007 they claim to have over 2,800,000,000 images uploaded to their site with the count growing.
