Photobucket today launched a newset of features that expands the way users share photos and videos across multiple Web sites. By partnering with Gigya and leveraging its own open API platform, Photobucket now enables its more than 48 million unique monthly users worldwide to utilize a simple point-and-click “shar”interface to publish their photos and videos across more Web sites than any other stand-alone photo and video-sharing site.
Photobucket’s simultaneous share feature saves users the hassle of individually uploading the same photos and videos to multiple social networking and blogging sites. By using Photobucket.com as a central hub, users simply choose which media they want on which site, and Photobucket’s simultaneous share feature will automatically post the media as directed, in real time. Users can choose to distribute photos, videos and even slideshows to top social media sites including MySpace, Facebook, BlackPlanet, Bebo, Blogger and others, all through Photobucket’s simple point-and-click interface. According to Photobucket, users currently link their media to more than 2.4 million individual top-level Web domains dail and a recent study from the Consumer Electronics Association reveals consumers on average share 51 percent of the photos they take.
“As the first Website to provide users with embed codes to share photos back in 2003, sharing has always been at Photobucket’s core,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “Our newest updates make it easier than ever for Photobucket’s users to quickly share their favorite memories online through any number of Web outlets.”
Photobucket’s sharing expansion will also allow users to embed “liv”photo and video slideshows that are updated in real time as users upload new content to their account. Additionally, Photobucket is launching its “My Photobucket” application exclusively for Facebook that enables a user’s entire Photobucket album to be displayed directly on their Facebook profile.
Concurrently, Photobucket has expanded the functionality of its mobile WAP site (m.photobucket.com), first introduced in November 2007. The new version improves the flow and navigation of the site, and also allows users to view ratings and comments. Photobucket Mobile is available through all mobile carrier networks.
Over the past year, Photobucket has built the most comprehensive mobile offering of any photo and video sharing Web site, working with more U.S. carriers and mobile phone manufacturers than any other dedicated photo- and video-sharing site. Traffic to Photobucket’s mobile WAP site has tripled over 2008 and continues to grow at an accelerated rate.
For more information, please visit http://blog.photobucket.com. New users can sign up for a free Photobucket account at http://photobucket.com. For more information on My Photobucket for Facebook, go to http://apps.facebook.com/pbphotos/. For more information about Photobucket for Mobile, go to http://photobucket.com/mobile.
