It was initially a sports oriented screen saver sold at retail for desktop computers.

[2] The service continued to grow and when Excite@Home declared bankruptcy at the end of 2001, the Webshots assets were purchased back by the founders for $2.5 million in cash.

[3] By 2001 Webshots became a profitable company with a combination of revenue streams that included advertising, freemium service, and merchandising.

By 2004, Webshots was grossing $15M/year, had more than 200,000 paid subscribers, and was the #1 photo sharing site and top 50 media property per ComScore.

[4] In the same year, Alexa ranked Webshots the second largest English language privately held Web media property (behind weather.com).

[7] Webshots joined the American Greetings Interactive unit and was reunited with another former Excite@Home property—the eCard website Blue Mountain.