Image hosting only a few different formats of images. This type of hosting is often free and most require registrations. Most image hosts allow hotlinking, so that you can upload images on their servers and not waste space/bandwidth on yours.  These types of accounts do not allow you to host information or items that are not of a specified format.

Companies that provide image hosting include: Photobucket.com, imageshack.us, theimagehosting.com, and putfile.com (which provides video hosting as well).