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Photobucket Launches Mobile Web Experience

Photobucket Goes Beyond the Desktop:
Leading Photo Site Launches Mobile Web Experience

Photobucket Mobile Recreates the Site’s Web-based
Uploading, Browsing and Searching Capabilities

PALO ALTO, Calif., January 15, 2008 – Photobucket, one of the Web’s most popular hubs for managing personal media, today announced the launch of Photobucket Mobile, giving its millions of users access to Photobucket features on web-enabled mobile devices. Users can access Photobucket Mobile by visiting http://m.photobucket.com on their mobile device.

Through Photobucket Mobile, users can:

• Browse existing personal and public Photobucket content directly from mobile devices
• Upload photos and videos to Photobucket from mobile devices
• Share photos and graphics with individuals via email from mobile devices
• Search Photobucket’s billions of photos and graphics
• View a variety of featured photos and images every day from the Photobucket Mobile Home page

The demand for Photobucket Mobile has steadily increased among its user base. An internal survey of thousands of Photobucket users conducted by Fox Interactive Media’s Research and Strategy Solutions in August 2007 found that 80 percent have a camera phone, 36 percent use the camera in their mobile phone every day and more than half (52 percent) have access to the Internet from their mobile phone.

“The growing demand for Photobucket Mobile proved to us that now was the perfect time to unveil a fully-functional mobile platform,” said Alex Welch, President of Photobucket. “Photobucket Mobile offers a great destination for our avid users to upload, search and share their digital media, wherever they are. As photo sharing continues to move beyond the desktop, our users look to share their digital life moments instantly. Recreating the Photobucket experience on a mobile platform is a critical part of meeting this need.”

Photobucket CEO & Co-Founder named finalist for Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year!

Photobucket CEO and Co-founder, Alex Welch,
Named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award Finalist in the Rocky Mountain Region

DENVER, June 19, 2007 – Photobucket, the world’s largest personal media site, today announced that CEO and co-founder, Alex Welch, is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2007 Award in the Rocky Mountain Region. According to Ernst & Young, the awards program was designed to recognize outstanding entrepreneurs on a regional, national and global level who are building and leading dynamic, growing businesses. Alex Welch was selected as a finalist from over 65 nominations by a panel of independent judges.

Important Photobucket Announcement

Dear Photobucket Friends:

As you may have already heard, today Photobucket announced that it has accepted an offer to be acquired by Fox Interactive Media (FIM), a division of News Corporation. This is a really big piece of news for us at Photobucket.

First and foremost, we expect nothing to change in our day-to-day operations. After the transaction is closed and finalized, the plan is to operate Photobucket as an independent, standalone company within FIM.

We plan to continue developing innovative tools that enhance self-expression and give you the best media sharing, linking and searching experience on the Web. Partnering with FIM will give us added resources and support to deliver on this vision, as well as the ability to offer new features for you -- our most important audience.

If you have questions or just want to drop us a line, write a comment here on the blog, or email us at pbsupport@photobucket.com. We read all your emails and messages. Keep them coming. And most importantly, keep all the great ideas coming.

I thank you for your support, and for all the ways you teach us what is truly meaningful about the Photobucket experience. We are extremely excited about Photobucket’s future, and look forward to continuing to bring you the very best personal media site in the world.

Regards,
Alex Welch, CEO, co-founder, Photobucket, Inc.

Photobucket Announces Mandy Moore Video Mash-Up Winner

Photobucket is proud to announce the winner of the Mandy Moore "Extraordinary" Remix contest!

Vintage High School in Napa California is the proud winner of a free acoustic concert by Mandy Moore for their graduating class of 2007.   Watch their remix to see why their school won!

Mandy Moore called the winner last week and will be performing at their highschool this Thursday!

All other school entries will be receiving a signed poster for their participation.  Again, congrats on an "Extraordinary" video and "Extraordinary" graduating class!

Read the entire media alert.

Photobucket hits the big Four-O

We're pretty excited here in Denver and Palo Alto. We just hit 40 million users. This is a great milestone for us -- we've come a long way since 2003. Not only that, but ComScore (the leading Web site that measures visitor numbers) puts us at the #1 spot in the US for photo sharing sites, and #4 in the US for the multimedia Web sites.

Photobucket on CNN Money!

"The biggest Web site you've never heard of." We know you all know us. But now someone at CNN Money does too. Nice article. We wanted to share it.

NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Photobucket is the most important site on the Internet that hardly anybody understands. Unpretentiously, it has built an essential service that didn't need to shout out for attention, the way MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, or other related sites have. Yet it's built an audience of 38 million members, a figure now growing more than 80,000 per day. That's up from just 50,000 members at the end of 2003. More.

Photobucket Hitwise#1 award winner

We were thrilled to hear today that we're now a Hitwise #1 award winner for year ending December 2006.  The Hitwise award recognizes websites from over 160 industry categories that are leaders in their industry. A nice way to end the week!

Photobucket Doubles Bandwidth Connections to Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CCOI) announced today that Photobucket has doubled its bandwidth connections with Cogent. Photobucket, the online personal media company where over 37 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, continues to experience explosive growth. The site is adding over 85,000 new users each day, which is resulting in significantly increased IP traffic demands.

Cogent has been Photobucket's primary provider of Internet bandwidth since 2005 and continues to support Photobucket's goal of reliable performance and uptime for their users. Part of that experience is making sure there is always enough capacity to handle traffic growth. This has resulted in several capacity upgrades for Photobucket and Cogent over the years, to keep in line with this continued user growth.

"We turned to Cogent for their pricing, we stay with Cogent for the quality and performance of their network combined with their superior customer support," said Darren Crystal, CTO and Co-Founder of Photobucket. "Our users are the trendsetters when it comes to social media -- their demands continue to grow as they upload more images, videos and remixed content. We are relying on Cogent to help us keep pace with the resulting bandwidth demand."

"Social networking is on the rise and so is the popularity of integrating media formats such as photos, graphics and video which all drive increased demand for bandwidth. Cogent is perfectly positioned to handle this bandwidth explosion by having ample capacity at the most attractive pricing in the industry," said Dave Schaeffer, CEO Cogent Communications. "Photobucket exemplifies how Web applications are able to advance and keep pace with user demands, with the availability of more and more bandwidth."

Photobucket is the Web's largest personal media site, with more than 37 million users. Photobucket's users store their photos, videos, remixes and images on Photobucket, and link from Photobucket to all their online profiles, personal Web sites and blogs. It serves over one billion content calls a day to the MySpace community alone. In the January 2007 ComScore rankings, Photobucket is the #6 most popular entertainment site in the US, and #35 most popular Web site overall.

About Cogent Communications

Cogent Communications (Nasdaq: CCOI) is a multinational, Tier 1 facilities-based ISP ranked by Ovum-RHK as the largest provider of Ethernet services in the United States. Cogent is also ranked as the 56th fastest growing company in North America on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 List for 2006. Cogent specializes in providing businesses with high speed Internet access and point-to-point transport services. Cogent's facilities-based, all-optical IP network backbone spans 14 countries and provides IP services in approximately 90 markets located in North America and Europe.

Since Cogent's inception, Cogent has unleashed the benefits of IP technology, building one of the largest and highest capacity IP networks in existence. This network enables Cogent to offer large bandwidth connections at highly competitive prices. Cogent also has the ability to offer superior customer support through end-to-end operation of the network, enabling Cogent to control all aspects of service delivery and network monitoring.

Cogent Communications is headquartered at 1015 31st Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20007. For more information, visit http://www.cogentco.com. Cogent Communications can be reached in the United States at +1-202-295-4200 or via email at info@cogentco.com.

Information in this release may involve expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. All forward-looking statements included in this release are based upon information available to Cogent Communications Group, Inc. as of the date of the release, and we assume no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations. Numerous factors could cause or contribute to such differences. Some of the factors and risks associated with our business are discussed in Cogent's registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in its other reports filed from time to time with the SEC.

Web site: http://www.cogentco.com

Pump Audio and Photobucket Deliver Legal Music for Online Video Creations

Pump Audio and Photobucket Deliver Legal Music for Online Video Creations

Tens of millions of consumers gain access to copyright-cleared independent music to synchronize with their personal media on the Internet

Hudson Valley, NY – March 6, 2007 – Pump Audio, the leading provider of quality independent music to content creators globally, today announced that it has reached an agreement with Photobucket to provide copyright-cleared, independent music to the tens of millions of Photobucket users who create and share remixes of their photos and videos using the Adobe® web-based video remix technology integrated on Photobucket’s site. Photobucket users can now easily add music from Pump Audio to their mashups.

Photobucket is the online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, and is the third largest video hosting site behind YouTube and MySpace. Pump Audio provides a proven, legal music solution with original songs perfectly suited for synchronizing to online productions. Photobucket has licensed hundreds of songs across dozens of genres from Pump Audio’s catalog of more than 75,000 tracks.

“Music truly brings a video creation to life, and it was important to us that our users be able to incorporate music into their remixes,” said Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket. “Pump Audio’s independent music solution helps Photobucket offer our users a wide selection of music that does not violate copyright infringement laws.”

Photobucket recently launched a web-based video remix and editing service, powered by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Using this remix service, Photobucket users can combine images, videos, text, and music provided by Pump Audio to create content mashups from their Photobucket albums, without requiring any additional downloads.

“User generated content, such as photo slideshows and video mashups, has created a significant opportunity for independent music,” said Steve Ellis, founder and CEO, Pump Audio. “Photobucket is an innovator in helping consumers bring their personal media to life, and shares our position that personal media communities can respect copyright law and also expose their users to high-quality independent music.”

Unlike stock music, Pump Audio’s catalog consists of real songs by thousands of independent artists worldwide. Because Pump Audio works directly with independent artists, it can offer a unique licensing system for managing and delivering the rights to use tracks in online productions. Pump Audio’s licensing model already has attracted major media customers, including MTV Networks, NBC Studios, HBO, New Line Cinema and advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. Under its artist-friendly system, Pump Audio splits licensing revenues with musicians, and the artists retain complete ownership over their music.

Working together, Pump Audio and Photobucket also are creating a new venue for participating artists to gain additional exposure to Photobucket’s massive user base. Pump Audio artists will receive a visual credit with information about the music being used in Photobucket mashups, creating a new promotional opportunity to directly reach potential fans. Photobucket users can embed their mashups into any web page, blog, or social network profile, and also share with family and friends, so artists will have the potential for broad exposure.

About Pump Audio

Pump Audio licenses the world's best independent music to content creators worldwide. Founded in 2001, Pump Audio has established itself as a leading provider of digital music for TV and advertising producers. Now Pump Audio is becoming the soundtrack of the Internet, opening Web access to its catalog of tens of thousands of songs so creators of all types can build music into their video and interactive productions. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while content creators can discover new music ready for use. Based in the
Hudson Valley, Pump Audio can be found at http://www.pumpaudio.com.

CNET - Adobe will offer ad-supported Photoshop online

Adobe will offer ad-supported Photoshop online
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday ...

More at:
http://news.com.com/Adobe+to+take+Photoshop+online/2100-7345_3-6163015.html

Freewebs Teams With Photobucket

Freewebs Teams With Photobucket

Freewebs Members Can Now Instantaneously Add Photos, Slideshows and Videos Directly to Their Freewebs Sites and Blogs from Photobucket

SILVER SPRING, Md., and DENVER, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Freewebs, www.freewebs.com  the world's easiest place to create multimedia websites and blogs has joined forces with Photobucket - the online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media. Now, Freewebs users are able to add photos, slideshows, videos, and remix videos from existing Photobucket accounts directly to Freewebs' publishing platform.

"This is just the first step in what's going to be a strong partnership," said Freewebs' President Shervin Pishevar.  "Our 14 million members expect unprecedented ease of use from Freewebs to create multimedia sites and blogs. Photobucket's partnership and deployment of its JWidget allows members access to extensive libraries of still images and videos -- from their own albums and from publicly available content on Photobucket."

This relationship involves Photobucket's JWidget partner program along with Freeweb's soon-to-be released Remote Publishing API.  Freeweb's API will allow users to post content directly to their Freewebs accounts from Photobucket and other popular online destinations.

"The online, engaged, and creative youth that are core to Photobucket's customer base want simple tools for self expression, and easy ways to share their content with their communities," said Alex Welch, CEO of Photobucket. "Freewebs is a great partner destination for that."

About Freewebs.com

For everyone with an Internet connection and something to share, Freewebs www.freewebs.com provides the toolkit to express their voice on the web through its versatile publishing platform.  To date, Freewebs members have created more than 14 million comprehensive websites including blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more.  Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, Md.

About Photobucket

Photobucket is the easiest and most reliable way for people to create, manage and share their personal media online. With more than 35 million users, Photobucket is a creative hub linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows, and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites -- including MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga. In addition to linking, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. Photobucket users upload more than 7 million personal photos, graphics and videos to Photobucket every day, and the site is growing at a rate of 85,000 new users a day. Photobucket currently serves over 70% of all content links to social networking web sites and serves over 3 billion images and video requests every day.  The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners, and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado and is located online at www.photobucket.com

Additional News Coverage re: Photobucket and Adobe

February 20, 2007

Adobe and Photobucket remixing video

Karyn Johnson,

Peachpit

Commons

The No. 3 video sharing site behind YouTube and MySpace, Photobucket has teamed with Adobe to bring its users a Web-based video remix and editing tool, allowing them to combine images and video with text, frames, effects, transitions, and music.

More at:

http://www.peachpitcommons.com/?p=518

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February 21, 2007

Adobe, Photobucket Bring Video Tools to the Web 

Patrick Hoffman, eWeek

Adobe Systems announced Feb. 21 that it has formed a partnership with Photobucket to bring its Web-based video remix and editing technology to the Web, enabling Photobucket users to access Adobe's video editing tools for free.

Adobe's Web-based video remix and editing technology lets Photobucket users customize to drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to videos while also allowing users to reorder, trim and split clips.

"Our Web-based video remix and editing technology is just one of the many ways that we are evolving our business to satisfy the incredible demand for Web-based applications," said Geoff Baum, group product manager at San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe.

More at:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2097379,00.asp

February 21, 2007

Photobucket Offers Online Video Mashups

Mike Sachoff, Web Pro News

Photobucket has launched a new service that will allow its 35 million users to do video editing online with technology powered by Adobe. The Adobe Web based video remix and editing technology is currently in Beta. Users can now combine photos, videos, text, and music to create videos or mashups of content from their Photobucket albums.

“At Photobucket we’re committed to helping our users get the most out of their personal media, and have fun doing so,” said Alex Welch, CEO, Photobucket. “Collaborating with Adobe gives our millions of users a simple way to create mashups that showcase their personality and creativity. Users can either broadcast these mashups widely, or share with a small group of friends and family.”

Photobucket users can combine images and video with captions, bubbles, frames, transitions, and music by dragging and dropping content to a sceneline. Users can work with content from their albums or they can choose from the publicly shared images and videos on Photobucket.

More at:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/21/photobucket-offers-online-video-mashups

February 21, 2007
Photobucket teams up with Adobe to offer free online video mashups
Staff, Graphic Exchange Network

Photobucket has announced the launch of a new service that lets users combine images, videos, text, and music to create personalized videos or “mashups” of content from their Photobucket albums.

The Adobe video remix and editing technology which drives Photobucket's new service is a Flash-based application built using Adobe Flex. Adobe says that the Photobucket toolset, currently being offered as a beta application, offers "a simplified interface, introducing consumers to video editing they can quickly master."

Adobe’s video remix and editing technology, which requires Adobe Flash 9, opens directly in the browser on Photobucket’s website. It is initially available via limited public beta to Photobucket Pro users, and will be available for free to Photobucket’s entire user base of 35 million members by early March 2007. For more information, visit http://blog.photobucket.com

February 21, 2007

Photobucket introduces web-based video editing tools

Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica

Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership today that will allow Photobucket's 35 million users to do basic video editing online through the web. The tools will be implemented in a browser using Flash and will enable users to remix their photos and home videos with other elements, such as music, video captions, and transitions—all without the use of dedicated video editing software.

More at:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070221-8891.html

February 21, 2007

Adobe Brings Premiere to the Web

Ed Oswald, BetaNews

Adobe is bringing its video editing tools online through multimedia storage site Photobucket, which would make them available for free. The application would be based on technologies used in Adobe's Premiere product, it said.

"We aim to simplify the powerful editing and compositing capabilities that make Adobe software the undisputed creative leader, so that anyone can post eye-catching compositions online," Adobe creative solutions senior vice president John Loiacono said in a statement.

More at:

http://www.betanews.com/article/Adobe_Brings_Premiere_to_the_Web/1172077086

February 21, 2007

Adobe Cuts Print Spending, Turns Focus to Online Ads

Editor, Adotas

Creative software developer Adobe Systems, makers of popular tools like Photoshop and Flash, will be cutting its spending on print advertising to spend more on online advertising, says Marketing Week.

According to the publication, Adobe has seen a lot of success with print advertising, but has decided to pay more attention to the Web. Today, the company announced that it would be working with Photobucket to provide the online photo sharing service with a suite of online video-editing tools based on Adobe Premier and powered by Flash. Adobe acquired Flash when it purchased Macromedia in 2005 for $3.4 billion in stock.

More at:

http://www.adotas.com/2007/02/adobe-cuts-print-spending-turns-focus-to-online-ads/

February 21, 2007

Adobe & Photobucket - Video Editing for the Masses

Scott Fegette, Scott Fegette

Well, it's been speculated for some time, but Adobe just announced it's partnership with Photobucket, to integrate Flex-based video editing capabilities into the popular photo and video hosting site. As noted in the release, this should be the first of many such partnerships over the coming months, and I'm really looking forward to digging into the Adobe RIA-powered editing experience, myself.

More at:

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/sfegette/archives/2007/02/adobe_photobuck.cfm

February 21, 2007
Adobe’s Video Editing Tools Online at Photobucket
Staff, Killer App

Consumers can now edit their home movies online using Web-based video remix and editing tools from Adobe. Adobe’s tools -- which let users add music, captions, bubbles, transitions and titles to videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips -- are available at Photobucket, a digital media site with 35 million users.

The Photobucket announcement is just the first of many, Adobe says. The company expects to announce more partnerships with Internet companies and media properties over the coming months. All of the online services will be free and ad-supported.

More at:

http://www.killerapp.com/content/publish/article_309.shtml

February 22, 2007

Photobucket to Introduce Web-based Video Editing Capablities
Staff, Tech Buzz

Yesterday, Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership to introduce basic online video editing capabilities into Photobucket. Once the flash based video editor is implemented, users can perform rudimentary functions like remixing their photos and home videos with music, video caption and transition. The web-based video editor is also said to have clip trimming and splitting features as well.

More at:

http://tech-buzz.net/2007/02/22/photobucket-to-introduce-web-based-video-editing-capablities/

February 21, 2007

Free Web-Based Video Editing by Photobucket

Staff, A Free and Decent Blog Host

Photobucket an online personal media company where over 35 million people create, manage and share their personal digital media, today announced the launch of a new service, featuring lightweight, web-based video remix and editing technology powered by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology is available online as part of the Photobucket user experience, and is currently offered as a Beta application. Photobucket users can now combine images, videos, text, and music to create personalized videos or “mashups” of content from their Photobucket albums, without requiring any additional downloads.

More at:

http://dnoviceblogger.blogspot.com/2007/02/free-web-based-video-editing-by.html

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February 22, 2007

Are you Photobucket-ing?
Marianne Young Ledesma, CSdeSigns

Today, I was pleasantly surprise to read a press release that Adobe has partnered with Photobucket to deliver a new lightweight remix and video editing tools right into Photobucket's site.  The same useability concepts taken from Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements are applied, and I am so excited to try it out myself. Premiere Elements is so much fun, easy to use and very intuitive, I sometimes even forget the complexities of the science behind video editing.  If you're only starting out, the idea gallery is a good place to start.

More at:

http://blogs.adobe.com/CSdeSigns/2007/02/are_you_photobucketing.html

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February 22, 2007

Win/Mac: Adobe Adds Video Editing Tools to Photobucket Site
Staff, Graphics.com

Adobe's video remix and editing technology will be directly available to Photobucket users.

Photobucket lets its users create, manage and share their personal media online and has racked up some impressive numbers. Founded in 2003, the site has more than 35 million members, and serves an astonishing 3 billion media items daily, via members links from such sites as MySpace, eBay, Craigslist and Blogger. Adobe's Premiere line of video editing tools includes both Elements and Pro, and with the upcoming integration Photobucket users will be able to make use of a Flash-driven implementation that lets them add drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to their videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips. Users can work with content from their own albums or access over 2.5 billion publicly-shared images and videos on Photobucket.

More at:

http://www.graphics.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3521

 

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February 22, 2007

Adobe and Photobucket team for online video editing tools

Adobe transforms its video editing solutions into online hosted services

Jonny Evans, Macworld

Photobucket users can now edit video they upload to the service using a suite of online tools, thanks to a deal with Adobe.

Adobe has launched its Flash-based online video remix and editing technology in partnership with Photobucket. The free service will be driven by advertising revenue, the partners hope.

The plan extends of Adobe's existing video editing products — including Premiere, which will soon return to the Mac platform — as online services.

More at:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=17297

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February 22, 2007

Adobe puts video-editing online

Video-hosting site integrates Adobe's tools

Zoe Mutter, PC Advisor

Adobe’s web-based video-editing technology will be delivered online when it’s integrated into the free image and video-hosting service, Photobucket.

Adobe’s web-based video editor will launch directly in the browser on the Photobucket website and allow users free and direct access to video-editing tools to perform a variety of operations such as dragging and dropping music, effects, titles and transitions to videos. It will be delivered as a lightweight Adobe Flash application and will therefore be accessible to more than 700 million computers that support Flash Player software.

More at:

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8499

 

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February 22, 2007

Photobucket Offers Free Adobe Video Editing

Walaika Haskins, TechNewsWorld

Photobucket users will soon have access to Adobe video editing tools online. The utilities will enable Photobucket Pro subscribers to remix, create effects and add music to content uploaded to the social networking site. The software offered by Adobe is the "lite" version of the company's editing tools -- a move likely intended to entice users to buy enhanced versions.

Adobe (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Photobucket have teamed up to give the site's 35 million subscribers free access to basic video remixing and editing technology online. With the first-of-its-kind offering, users can incorporate music, effects, transitions and titles into their videos.

More at:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/55921.html

February 23, 2007

Photobucket Debuts New Video Remixer

Michael Calore and Scott Gilbertson, Wired Blogs 

Earlier this week Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership to bring some Adobe Premier-like editing and remixing capabilities to Photobucket users. The new tool lets users take video clips and images, and remix, caption and enhance them to create new movies which can then be shared with the world at large.

More at:

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/photobucket_deb.html

February 21, 2007

Adobe to release video editing tools online
Sourav Dutta, Digital Media

Asia

Adobe Systems plans to deliver its software technologies online, with the launch of its web-based video remix and editing technology. Adobe and Photobucket have announced a partnership to integrate Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology directly into Photobucket, giving Photobucket users direct, free access to digital video editing tools. The agreement reportedly marks a new stage in Adobe's delivery of its video software technologies that underpin flagship products such as Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Premiere Pro.

The company expects to announce more partnerships with internet companies and media properties over the coming months. These free services are expected to be driven by advertising revenue – and by offering customers upgrade paths to Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements software.

 

More at:

http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/default.asp?ArticleID=22305

February 21, 2007

Adobe To Launch Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Video-Editing Tools

The online versions of Adobe's Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products are augmented by a partnership with Photobucket.

Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb

Adobe Systems on Wednesday unveiled plans to supply online video-editing tools to Web sites in return for sharing ad revenue, and said Photobucket would be its first partner in the new venture.

The maker of software for creative professionals said it was entering a "new stage" in offering over the Web capabilities found within its flagship Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products. In making portions of these tools available on Web sites, Adobe hopes to grab a piece of the booming online advertising market, and introduce its products to people who may eventually decide to upgrade to the desktop software versions.

Photobucket plans to make Adobe's tools available in March to all of its more than 35 million users. The tools are currently available in beta only to Photobucket Pro customers. The site lets registered users edit and upload video or photos, and share them with others. They can also broadcast them publicly and post their creations on other sites, such as EBay, online classified ad site Craigslist, and social networks MySpace and Facebook. Photobucket claims to have 17.6 million visitors a month.

More at:

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3I1ZQQ3KW43CKQSNDLPCKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197007906

February 21, 2007

Adobe To Launch Ad-Supported Web 2.0 Video-Editing Tools

Antone Gonsalves, Dr. Dobb’s

The online versions of Adobe's Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products are augmented by a partnership with Photobucket.

Adobe Systems on Wednesday unveiled plans to supply online video-editing tools to Web sites in return for sharing ad revenue, and said Photobucket would be its first partner in the new venture.

The maker of software for creative professionals said it was entering a "new stage" in offering over the Web capabilities found within its flagship Premiere Element and Premiere Pro products. In making portions of these tools available on Web sites, Adobe hopes to grab a piece of the booming online advertising market, and introduce its products to people who may eventually decide to upgrade to the desktop software versions.

More at:

http://www.ddj.com/dept/webservices/197007915

February 21, 2007

Photobucket Adds Free Online Video Editing

Geoff Duncan, Digital Trends News

Photo sharing site Photobucket has just added a new tool to its online arsenal: free lightweight video editing tools from Adobe.

Online media hosting company Photobucket has announced a limited beta trial of lightweight online video editing tools from Adobe. The video editing tools are offered as a Flash-based application built with Adobe Flex, and aims to offer video editing capabilities Adobe first brought to market with Premier. The online tools offer a simplified, consumer-oriented interface enabling users to combine images and video with captions, bubbles, frames, transitions, music, and other effects via drag-and-drop. The tools enable users to re-order content and clips, trim elements, and split directly into the sceneline all from a Web-based interface. Via Photobucket, users have access to more than 2.5 billion public images and video clips they can use in their own productions.

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AP - High-tech entrepreneurs grapple with build-or-sell dilemma

February 23, 2007
High-tech entrepreneurs grapple with build-or-sell dilemma

Michael Liedtke, Associated Press

Denver-based Photobucket also prefers to remain independent as it strives to nearly double its registered users to 60 million by the end of this year, said Alex Welch, who has raised about $15 million in venture capital since co-founding the site in 2003. Photobucket's 35 million members currently upload about 7 million photos and 35,000 videos per day – second only to YouTube and MySpace.

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Adobe Brings Video Editing Tools Online

Adobe Brings Video Editing Tools Online

Photobucket Relationship Highlights Strategy of Delivering Simple, High-Impact Creative Software to Millions             

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Feb. 21, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) is pioneering a new way to deliver its industry leading creative software technologies online, with the launch of its web-based video remix and editing technology. Today, Adobe and Photobucket announced a partnership to integrate Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology directly into the Photobucket user experience, giving 35 million Photobucket users direct, free access to world-class digital video editing tools. The agreement marks a new stage in Adobe’s delivery of its renowned video software technologies that today underpin flagship products such as Adobe® Premiere® Elements and Adobe Premiere Pro.

The company expects to announce more partnerships with Internet companies and media properties over the coming months. These free services are expected to be driven by advertising revenue - and by offering customers simple upgrade paths to Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop® Elements software, both market leaders in the home digital video and photo editing space.

“Making Photobucket ‘Adobe powered’ with web-based video remix and editing technology will radically change the user experience for millions of Photobucket devotees and also up-level the quality and variety of content being distributed by this passionate community,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions at Adobe. “We aim to simplify the powerful editing and compositing capabilities that make Adobe software the undisputed creative leader, so that anyone can post eye-catching compositions online.”

Today’s agreement with Photobucket points the way to the kind of future partnerships and breakthrough user experiences Adobe anticipates. Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology is an easy-to-use video editor that allows consumers the creative freedom to infuse personality and dramatic impact into their stories before releasing them to a broader online audience. Users can drag and drop music, effects, transitions and titles to videos, as well as reorder, trim and split clips.

Delivered as a lightweight Adobe Flash® application and built using Adobe Flex™ software, Adobe web-based video remix and editing technology is accessible to the more than 700 million personal computers that today support Adobe Flash Player software. Adobe’s web-based video remix and editing technology launches directly in the browser on Photobucket’s web site, with no time-consuming downloads or platform compatibility questions to deter users from uploading and editing their videos. The new video editing capabilities in Photobucket are initially available via limited public beta to Photobucket Pro users, and will be available for free to Photobucket’s entire user base of 35 million members by early March 2007.

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AOL Money & Finance - YouTube faces some (real) competition

February 20, 2007

YouTube faces some (real) competition

Douglas McIntyre, AOL Money & Finance

The number of video-sharing sites seems to rise every day. MySpace, owned by News Corp. (NYSE:NWS), has gotten on board. So has photo site Photobucket. But Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube remains the largest.

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New TeeVee - Photobucket Adds Video Editing

Photobucket Adds Video Editing

Liz Gannes, NewTeeVee

Written by Liz Gannes- Posted Tuesday, February 20, 2007 at 10:02 AM PT

Partnering with Adobe and using their Flex¹ software, Photobucket has added rich video editing tools². Currently run as a beta program available to paid Premium users, Photobucket CEO Alex Welch assured us in a phone interview that all 35 million users would have access in March.

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http://newteevee.com/2007/02/20/photobucket-adds-video-editing/

Cnet Webware - Photobucket to launch Flash-based online video editor

February 16, 2007

Photobucket to launch Flash-based online video editor

Martin LaMonica, CNET Webware

Photobucket and Adobe Systems on Monday are expected to announce a Web-based video-editing tool available from Photobucket's media-sharing site. The free service will be in beta this month to its premium customers and rolled out to all customers in March.

The service lets people take existing media, including photos and videos, stored in a Photobucket account and remix them with captions, soundtracks and other effects. Like any video-editing package, people can drop items, like video snippets, and place them onto a timeline.

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TechCrunch - Newest Flash Tools on Display at Photobucket

February 16, 2007

Newest Flash Tools on Display at Photobucket