Giphy unveils its short-form video platform

Giphy is again moving beyond the traditional confines of everyone’s favorite animated image format, the GIF. The company is soft launching its video platform Friday, which showcases the 118 finalist videos from the first Giphy Film Fest, held earlier this week. The Film Fest videos slot into various categories, including narrative, stop-motion, animated and experimental. […]

Snapchat and Instagram pull Giphy stickers over racist GIF

When Snapchat and Instagram introduced Giphy stickers for Stories, they expected to offer PG-rated GIFs that even their young patrons can use. Unfortunately, things don’t always go as planned: both platforms have disabled the feature after users discovered an extremely racist GIF that says “N—- Crime Death Counter — Keep Cranking Bonzo, the Numbers Just […]

Snapchat taps Giphy to let you add animated GIF stickers to your photos and videos

Snapchat is getting a massive dose of GIFs from today with the news that the app will be integrating with Giphy’s gargantuan library of GIFs. Now when you take a photo or video, you’ll be able to add a funky GIF sticker to your creation, which you can scale to size according to your preferences. […]

Giphy taps Google AI tech to help you find the right GIF

Giphy’s collection is a good way to find the right GIF to express your feelings… up until you’re tracking down that one elusive GIF that’s improperly tagged. The company has a clever solution, though: make AI technology look through the GIFs itself. It’s implementing Google machine learning that combs through the animated image files looking […]