Online photo industry heats up as Photobucket hits 10M uniques and shutterfly files $92M IPO

As the social networking sites lead the web 2.0 wave, online photo industry is heating up with several sites attracting millions of  monthly unique users.  New web sites such as Tabblo and Riya entering the market, as photobucket.com is becoming the most popular destination. Last year, HP bought online photo site Snapfish, and Yahoo snatched Flickr.

Shutterfly, one of the earliest and popular online photography sites, filed an initial public offering this week to sell up to $92 million in common stock.

As of March 2006, Photobucket had over 19 Million users growing by over 65,000 users per day. Photobucket serves over 50 Billion images/month. Founded in 2003, Photobucket has accelerated its organic growth to welcome more than 10 million unique visitors per month. 

 
Tabblo debuted its photo-sharing web site today, positioning itself as a way to create professional-looking collages of photos using tools that allow users to drag and drop images, move them around the page, and add descriptions, with tools that mimic those available on a PC or Mac. The  company is facing a crowded field in the photo-sharing space, with competitors like Yahoo Photos and Yahoo’s Flickr service, Google’s Picasa, Kodak’s EasyShare Gallery (formerly Ofoto), Webshots, Hewlett-Packard’s Snapfish, Sony’s ImageStation, and other startups like Photobucket and Shutterfly. (notes Red Herring)

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