Photobucket is an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website. It was founded in 2003 by Alex Welch and Darren Crystal and received funding from 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 then renamed itself Photobucket Inc. and continues to operate as Photobucket.

In June 2010, Photobucket was named in the Lead411's Hottest Seattle Companies list.

Photobucket is usually used for personal photographic albums, remote storage of avatars displayed on internet forums, and storage of videos. Photobucket's image hosting is often used for eBay, MySpace (from 2007–2009, a corporate cousin), Bebo, Neopets, and Facebook accounts, LiveJournals, Open Diarys, or other blogs, and message boards. Users may keep their albums private, allow password-protected guest access, or open them to the public.

Photobucket advertises 99.9% uptime.^{[citation needed]} It offers free users unlimited total photo storage for non-commercial use, with a limit of 1MB per photo. However, the unlimited offer does not apply if Photobucket considers the use "excessive". The free photo dimension limit is 2048x1536 pixels. Free users may also upload up to 500 videos, each limited to 500MB and 10 minutes. Premium (pro) accounts also have unlimited bandwidth (as well as storage), except in cases Photobucket deems abuse. For premium users, the photo display file size limit is relaxed to 2MB, and the dimension limit is increased to 4000x3000 pixels. Photobucket also allows premium users to download the original images they uploaded, up to 20MB.