Webshots embodies innovation in photos.
With humble roots in Windows screensaver shareware, Webshots rocketed to popularity on the Web in the late 90’s allowing users to decorate their computer desktops with stunning imagery from around the world, hand-selected from professional photographers.
With the advent of digital cameras, Webshots became the first true public photo sharing website, enabling its members to upload photos to easily share with family, friends or the rest of the world.
Today, Webshots is a global distribution platform for image content. With an array of screen experiences, free and paid content channels, and publisher tools, Webshots disseminates images and news in real-time enabling viewers to enjoy, repurpose and republish media.
Webshots is committed to bringing joy to our audience and community. This includes designating a portion of revenue to organizations that preserve the wonder, drama, excitement, beauty, and awe of our planet.
Webshots is based in Corte Madera, California.
With humble roots in Windows screensaver shareware, Webshots rocketed to popularity on the Web in the late 90’s allowing users to decorate their computer desktops with stunning imagery from around the world, hand-selected from professional photographers.
With the advent of digital cameras, Webshots became the first true public photo sharing website, enabling its members to upload photos to easily share with family, friends or the rest of the world.
Today, Webshots is a global distribution platform for image content. With an array of screen experiences, free and paid content channels, and publisher tools, Webshots disseminates images and news in real-time enabling viewers to enjoy, repurpose and republish media.
Webshots is committed to bringing joy to our audience and community. This includes designating a portion of revenue to organizations that preserve the wonder, drama, excitement, beauty, and awe of our planet.
Webshots is based in Corte Madera, California.
Location: United States, California, Corte Madera
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 1995
Investors 2
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Mentions in press and media 11
| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.06.2008 | Learning from Flickr’s Co-founders on Their Way Out of Yahoo | In June 2005 Yahoo! acquired upstart Canadian photosharing web site Flickr and the web hasn’t been the same since. Yahoo, on the other hand, didn’t change nearly as much as everyone expected it to. Pre-CEO Jerry Yang told then-Business 2.0 ... |
| 15.04.2008 | AllYouCanUpload Slips Quietly Into Deadpool | AllYouCanUpload, the registration-free image hosting site with few restrictions, has quietly been taken down. The site was launched in May 2006 by CNET without much fanfare, but was praised for shedding the bandwidth limits seen on other ph... |
| 25.10.2007 | Roundup: CNET sells Webshots, Comcast not alone, fundings and more | Here’s the day’s action: 1) CNET sells its photo-sharing site Webshots at loss, may be ready to try again 2) Comcast isn’t the only ISP manipulating traffic 3) Apple may lose Warner Music, too 4) Yahoo’s Cammie Dunaway goes to Nintendo 5) T... |
| 13.02.2007 | Online Video Industry Index | Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it’s easy to lose track of them all. So let’s take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major play... |
| 20.11.2006 | Webshots Adds Video | CNet’s photosharing service Webshots is adding video sharing capabilities today, something that has been expected since at least August when the service underwent a drastic redesign. There’s not a lot of information on the site yet about th... |
| 31.08.2006 | YouTube pulls a Facebook move, circa 2004 | YouTube has opened a new section of its site called Colleges on YouTube. Students, staff and alumni of 30 universities can access video from their school community by using a .edu email address and other users can’t access those pages. User... |
| 29.08.2006 | Webshots Redesign Launches, Video Coming | CNET owned Webshots, a massive property with 420 million photos, relaunched moments ago with a new interface and a number of feature changes. The most notable changes are to the limits on photo uploading. Free accounts are now able to uploa... |
| 10.08.2006 | Webshots to relaunch with a Web 2.0 look | There won’t be tagging, but CNet’s photosharing site Webshots is adding a number of features reminiscent of Flickr and getting a whole new look. The relaunch will occur some time in late August, but an alpha site is up here. The site curren... |
| 22.06.2006 | Photobucket vs. Flickr in Alexa and Technorati | One of the top stories in the blogosphere today is a new Hitwise chart finding that Photobucket has a 46% leading market share in online photosharing and that Flickr is in 6th place with only 6%. This was a big surprise for parts of the blo... |
| 04.04.2006 | CNET rolls out "College Live" at Webshots | Webshots, a photo publishing and sharing service which was acquired by CNET in August 2004, is starting to launch social networking features to compete with the more cutting edge photo services like Flickr. Last month they launched the soci... |
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