What is Photobucket? Photobucket Review

Photobucket subscription prices as of September 24, 2017

50 GB Store Account $59.99/year

100 GB shared account $99.99/year

500 GB third-party hosting account $399.99/year

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The video size limit supported by Photobucket is 500 MB and the duration limit is 10 minutes.

The following video file types are supported:

3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, avi, divx, flv, gif, mov, mp4, mpeg4, mpg4, mpeg, mpg, m4v and wmv. All video files are converted to mp4 format after uploading.

Big Events

In July 2017, Photobucket updated its policy, requiring users to pay an annual fee of US$399 to use the third-party website image storage service.

The site's administrator, Glen Stephens, told members: "It's extortion and there's no guarantee it will be back to normal within a month," and advised users not to pay the fee.

Development History

Photobucket was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and funded by Trinity Ventures. It was acquired by Fox Interactive Media in 2007.

In December 2009, Fox's parent company News Corp. sold Photobucket to Seattle mobile imaging startup Ontela. Ontela was subsequently renamed Photobucket Inc. and continues to operate as Photobucket.

In June 2010, Photobucket was included in Lead411's list of hottest Seattle companies.

Twitter announced in June 2011 that Photobucket would become Twitter's default photo sharing platform.

On June 28, 2017, Photobucket changed its terms of use regarding free accounts and third-party hosting services (hosted on forums, eBay, etc.).

References

• 1. Photobucket big event: Sohu.com [cited on 2018-03-11T16:00:00.000Z]