PhotoBucket Sees GetJar Downloads Boost

GetJar, the world’s second largest app store, has revealed that photo-sharing firm Photobucket has increased its mobile application downloads by nearly 2,500 per cent in the space of a few months using GetJar’s App It! download service. Photobucket joins other brands such as Facebook, Yahoo, Flirtomatic and Cnectd using App It! to reach consumers irrespective of what kind of device they are using.

App It! is a link to an app that can be placed anywhere, and that enables consumers to download that app to their phone in one tap, regardless of the user’s 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 publisher’s page on GetJar, which detects the device and provides them with the right app for their phone.

“Photobucket gives users the power to access their media content from anywhere and use it as they see fit,” says Photobucket chief research officer, Darren Kelly. “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.”

To help publishers leverage the power of App It! and easily promote their apps, GetJar has automated the App It! process so that each app uploaded to GetJar will automatically get its own App It! URL. Publishers can then promote this URL in any way they like, via Twitter, Facebook, TV, print, web or any other medium they choose.