Facts about www.photobucket.com

25 Million unique site visitors/month in the US, and over 46 Million unique site visitors/month worldwide

#1 most popular Photo site in the US

#3 most popular Entertainment/Multimedia site in the US

#8 most popular Entertainment/Multimedia site in the world

#31 in Top 50 Sites in the US

#41 top 100 Global Sites

18th Largest Ad supported site in the US

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Alex Musil, Vice President of Product was a Director at Yahoo! before joining photobucket. I doubt if he has was responsible for implementing some key features of yahoo photos at photobucket.