14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since it was launched, Photobucket provided users with a safe and exhaustive platform to upload images and photos, then easily share them. Recently, this service has reached an amazing milestone: 8 billion uploads and counting. Photobucket Corporation, the company maintaining this successful platform, is constantly striving to meet the requirements of every user and satisfy their necessities.
Launched in 2003, Photobucket is currently the most popular service dedicated to hosting and sharing videos and images, featuring more than 4 million uploads every day.
Since the popularity of the service does not show any signs of decreasing, it is safe to say that users all over the world need a secure place to store their personal photos and clips, while still having the possibility to easily share them or simply show them off to the world.
Furthermore, since Photobucket is continuously improving its functionality, it has also become largely accessible from mobile devices - mobile uploads have increased by more than 400 percent since the beginning of the year 2010.
Considering smartphones are more and more popular every month, and that Photobucket's well-known automatic auto-upload feature is optimized for mobile devices, it is no surprise that the service has no way to go but up.
“Eight billion uploads is a tremendous milestone and we owe that to our loyal users around the world,” said the company CEO, Tom Munro. “Over the past months, we have made significant investments in our mobile applications and we are seeing a corresponding increase in the number of photos uploaded from mobile devices”.
“We expect this trend to continue on a substantial scale as we add additional features that will further enhance the uploading and sharing experience for our users,” he added.
Following constant development, there is now a Photobucket Mobile Application compatible with each of the major operating systems available nowadays: iOS, Android, Blackberry OS and Windows Phone 7.
The patented auto-uploading technology of Photobucket is especially famous for offering a “zero-click” experience which means that users are only required to capture a photo or a video, since the uploading is done automatically.
Also, since this process is a background one, one can perform other tasks without waiting for Photobucket to finish uploading.
To confirm that Photobucket is more than just a hosting platform, the uploaded files can also be shared on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, as well as on third-party websites and blogs.