Silver Springs, Maryland - (Website Hosting Directory) - March 8, 2007 - Web hosting company, Freewebs.com, has enabled the digital media applications of Photobucket content, to directly publish photos, slideshows, videos, and remix videos on Freewebs websites.

Shervin Pishevar, President of Freewebs remarked, “This is just the first step in what’s going to be a strong partnership. Our 14 million members expect unprecedented ease of use from Freewebs to create multimedia sites and blogs. Photobucket’s partnership and deployment of its JWidget allows members access to extensive libraries of still images and videos — from their own albums and from publicly available content on Photobucket.”

The relationship involves Photobucket’s JWidget partner program along with Freeweb’s soon-to-be released Remote Publishing API. Freeweb’s API will allow users to post content directly to their Freewebs accounts from Photobucket and other popular online destinations.

Alex Welch, CEO of Photobucket added, “The online, engaged, and creative youth that are core to Photobucket’s customer base want simple tools for self expression, and easy ways to share their content with their communities. Freewebs is a great partner destination for that.”

Photobucket allows for people to create, manage and share their personal media online, linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows, and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of web sites, including: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger, Xanga and others. Photobucket’s more than 35 million users upload more than 7 million personal photos, graphics and videos to Photobucket every day, and the site is growing at a rate of 85,000 new users a day. Photobucket currently serves over 70% of all content links to social networking web sites and serves over 3 billion images and video requests every day. The company actively moderates content to create a safe environment for its users, partners and advertisers. Photobucket has offices in Palo Alto, California and Denver, Colorado.

Freewebs.com is the free, do-it-yourself website builder that guarantees anyone can easily create and share a complete, high-quality website through its web publishing platform. More than 12 million individuals, groups, organizations and small businesses worldwide use Freewebs to create and host comprehensive websites that include blogs, photos, videos, music, e-commerce and more. The company has received funding from Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Columbia Capital. Founded in 2001, Freewebs is privately held and based in Silver Spring, Md.

For more information about Freewebs, please visit: www.freewebs.com.