2% of U.S. Internet Traffic goes through Photobucket

Photobucket isn’t as flashy as YouTube or Flickr, but they have 14 million users, 80 uploaded photos per second and, just two weeks after launching their video product are nearly matching YouTube with 30,000 daily uploaded videos (YouTube is 35,000/day). And, Photobucket is both profitable and cash flow positive.What is it? It’s the behind the scenes photo and video server for MySpace, eBay and dozens of other sites that either have significant restrictions on photo/video uploads or heavy fees. For users of those services, they often turn to Photobucket to host these files. Photobucket is not designed to be a destination site - their tools are focused on easy uploading, transcoding to flash (in the case of video) and posting to other sites. 63% of all media links to sites like MySpace are served by Photobucket. Compare that to 8% for Flickr and 1.38% for YouTube.

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I use imageshack a lot because it has a a LOT fewer issues then photobucket, but I had wondered at Photobuckets marketshare.  It’s interesting to see how popular it is compared to other services.  Heck, YouTube is a huge video sharing site, and Photobucket has almost the same number of video uploads… and that service is new to it.