Friend of TechNode Tim Chen recently interviewed Dongtu co-founder Grant Long about the Chinese GIF company’s monetization model. Akin to the US platform Giphy and Tenor (part of Google since an ...

A surplus of Web and mobile apps that help us make and use GIFs have hit the market, but behind the fun they deliver for users, there is booming business potential. And these startups creating ...

The gif database made the comments in filings with the UK's competition watchdog. It said it has seen a decline in popularity and that only Meta would buy the company. Giphy has taken aim at its ...

Giphy said young users think gifs are "for boomers", "cringe", and "out of fashion". The gif database made the comments in filings with the UK's competition watchdog. It said it has seen a decline in ...

Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting ...

It feels like the animated GIF is having a huge renaissance on the Internet. To wit… But here's the shocking truth: the GIF is actually on the decline. According to W3Techs, the PNG format just ...

Fox wanted the company to chop the new episode up into little pieces and make a series of animated gifs - those blinking, forever-looping, silent clips millions share every day. This video can not ...

[Image: Giphy/ZaharovEvgeniy/iStock (frame)]In 1999, the GIF hit a snag when controversy regarding the patent license on the compression format flared up between the IT company Unisys and Compuserve.

Watch this brief history of how the GIF has been used for business over the years: Spend some time on Animation Factory's website and you may come away confused. There are more than 500,000 ...

Animated GIFs and the Internet go together like peanut butter and jelly. Whether your Internet browsing habits take you to Reddit, Tumblr, or elsewhere, you likely run into multiple GIFs per day ...

the company’s two closest contemporaries—GIFs. By allowing users to organize their own content using original tags, Tumblr inadvertently created a network of self-sustaining communities.

We talk to Philip Intile, a rising star in the GIF world and the 16-year-old founder of the GIF Artist Collective. The collective is two-fold: there’s the public collective in the form of the ...