GetJar’s App It! Helps Photobucket Increase Mobile Downloads by an Astounding 2,500 Percent

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GetJar, (www.getjar.com), the world’s second largest app store, today announced that Photobucket Corporation, the premier destination for photo and video sharing on the Web, has increased its mobile application downloads by nearly 2,500 percent in just a few months using GetJar’s App It! download service (formerly known as App Download Page). Photobucket joins other top brands such as Fandango, Facebook, Yahoo!, MocoSpace, OpenTable, Flirtomatic and Cnectd using App it! to reach consumers independent of what kind of device they are using.

“Photobucket gives users the power to access their media content from anywhere and use it as they see fit”

App it! With GetJar

App It! is a link to a particular app that can be placed anywhere and allows consumers to download that app to their phone in one tap regardless of the users’ phone make or model. Once a publisher has uploaded an app or mobile site to GetJar the App it! link is automatically created and can be placed anywhere the publisher wants. When tapped the link sends the consumer to the publishers page on GetJar which detects the device and provides them with the right app for that phone.

“Photobucket gives users the power to access their media content from anywhere and use it as they see fit,” said Darren Kelly, CRO of Photobucket. “Photobucket Mobile makes uploading and sharing media taken on the phone simpler than ever before. With App It!, users can access our mobile application with one simple link regardless of whether they use iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, or any other platform. We look forward to serving millions of consumers in the near future through GetJar.”

“GetJar is committed to providing the third button every website should have: Share it on Facebook, Retweet it on Twitter, and now, App It! on GetJar. The viral way of sharing apps across any platform, handset, carrier or country will simply be: Just App it!,” said Ilja Laurs, CEO and founder of GetJar. “With an estimated 400,000 mobile applications just between Apple’s app store, GetJar and Android Market, communications and discovery are becoming ever more difficult for publishers. Global brands are realizing that although applications provide users with a rich and engaging experience, to make app distribution easy they need to provide consumers with a single destination from which to get their apps instead of sending them off to multiple stores depending on what type of handset they might have.”

To help publishers leverage the power of App It! and easily promote their apps, GetJar has invested in automating the App It! process so that each and every app uploaded to GetJar will automatically get its own App It! URL in the form of http://getjar.com/appname. Publishers can then promote this URL in any way they like be it via Twitter, Facebook, TV, print, Web or any other medium of communication.

About GetJar

GetJar is the world’s second largest apps store, second only to the Apple App Store, with over 1 billion downloads to date. The company’s key point of difference is its open market approach, which allows it to deliver applications for both feature phones and smartphones across all major platforms such as Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPhone and Symbian among others. The company provides more than 7,000 mobile applications to consumers in more than 200 countries. In 2009 GetJar won the Meffy, Tiecon50 and Mobile Excellence awards for its achievements and products. GetJar is backed by Accel Partners and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in the UK and Lithuania. For more information: www.getjar.com and follow us on Twitter @getjar.

About Photobucket

Photobucket is the premier dedicated photo and video sharing site, with millions of users around the world linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of Web sites, including Bebo, Blogger, Craigslist, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, MySpace, Orkut, Xanga and many others. In addition to linking content, Photobucket users share their personal digital media through social networks, email, instant messaging, and mobile devices. Every day, over 10 million personal photos, graphics and videos are uploaded to Photobucket for sharing with family, friends and the online world. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers. Photobucket is located online at http://photobucket.com. For the latest feature announcements and news, please visit the Photobucket blog at http://blog.photobucket.com.

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