Piczo

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Piczo, Inc

Type	Blog company
Founded	2003
Headquarters	San Francisco California, United States
Key people	Jeremy Verba (CEO)
Website	www.piczoinc.com

Piczo, Inc is a privately held blog company based in San Francisco, California. notable investors include Catamount, Sierra Ventures, US Venture Partners, and Mangrove Capital Partners ^[1].

1 Piczo as a service
2 Popularity
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Piczo as a service

Their eponymous service, also called Piczo, is an online photo website builder and community, which is for generation of free advertising-supported websites.

Piczo, launched in 2004, allows users to add images, text, guestbooks, message boxes, videos, and other content to their site using plain text and HTML. Partners include YouTube, VideoEgg, Photobucket and Flock.

In addition to the website development aspect of the site, Piczo has a User Generated Content repository, the Piczo Zone, where users can browse, post, and consume content that they or others have used on their site.

Another feature is "The Board" where Piczo informs users on Html and Internet safety.

In 2007 they started to put in new opinions & HTMls.

[edit] Popularity

Piczo sees around 12 million unique visitors a month^[2] but according to Hitwise is by no means the most popular social networking site available ^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]. While primarily offering services in English and German Piczo is also available in French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese and Korean BETA versions^[9].