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Photobucket.COM Is it covered anywhere in the guide? It sure is: Photobucket for bands tutorial

“Photobucket offers image hosting, free photo sharing and video sharing. Upload your photos, host your videos, and share them with friends and family.”

So why may it be beneficial to you? Here is a run down of some its features and benefits.

Like many other websites it has a search feature, by providing your photo’s to the site and making public they have the potential to be found. Which in turn can help generate new traffic to your website.

It has a ‘group album’ feature http://photobucket.com/groupalbums/ which you can embed on your own website.  Instead of hosting your own photo gallery and spending extra money on bigger bandwidth hosting packages, why not utilize this embeddable idea.  Photobucket take some of your hosting slack and I have never had any issues with slow loading widgets they provide.

This is something you can use at gigs or any small live event in which fan interaction is involved.  Simply stating you have this feature will equate to more uploads by your fans.  As a lot of services and tools are stat trackable. Its a good idea to let your fans spread their own media through your the portals you have created.

It is one of the daddies of image hosting online and with that has collaborated with other large partners to create more great features.   If you are the owner of a new smart phone with camera capabilities then taking snaps and uploading them is very straight forward.  T-Mobile users have a specific app for their phone operating system and if you have any questions for other phones you can find that at this link. http://photobucket.com/mobile

Another cell to fill more analytical information will be needed in your excell sheets, keep on top of your stats and see if any form of Image Marketing is working for you.   They give details of all seperate image statistics and album info with visitor actions.

You will get global statistics, as this website is #65 on Alexa rankings it is used across the globe.  So if you take your band abroad, part of your brand can follow and the fans should potentially understand the choices they can make with interacting with your online presence.

This is not specific to just bands, business’s and personal albums are just a few of the people that use this service.  Remember to tag and categorise the content you upload to what is seen in the images.  If it’s black and white then tags such as ‘bw, black, white, black and white,’ can also be put on the content.

If that’s not all, we have already included in our guide a page on how to register and manage your Photobucket account. http://autonomousindustry.com/guide/tools-services/66-photobucket-image-services

There are some unique features with Photobucket which set it a part from other services, have any questions or ideas of your own regarding marketing strategies for bands then check out our forum.

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