The social networking giant MySpace recently blocked any content hosted on Photobucket from being placed in MySpace profiles. Photobucket, if you are not familiar, is the largest photo sharing site on the web and gets over 17 million users per month.
“The move is something akin to Microsoft blocking third-party applications from Windows. Scores of companies offer software tools, commonly referred to as “widgets,” that allow users to post photos, music, video and other content to Web sites, and many have built their businesses specifically around MySpace’s 90 million users.”
MySpace says that Photobucket violated MySpace’s terms by encouraging users to post advertisements. MySpace forbids third-party vendors from advertising on its site.
This is an interesting case and although Photobucket says that MySpace only accounts for 25 percent of it’s user base, I think this will hurt traffic for them and have people move to other photo hosting services.
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