You can make a GIF from a YouTube video using websites like GIPHY, which lets you turn up to 30 seconds of a video into a GIF.

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

Did you know you can create GIFs on an Android phone? You can turn your favorite shows and movies into moving reaction images or create some fun GIFs from videos of your friends, family, or pets! You ...

We use them at Buffer in our customer service tweets, our emails, our Slack channel. We include GIFs in marketing emails and team announcements. Anywhere there’s a message; there’s the chance for a ...

While the internet has been transformed over the last 30 years into a kind of engineering fairyland, the popularity of low-tech animated GIFs in the age of social media has held up better than most ...

GIFs (Graphics Interchange Format) may have lost their cachet among pesky millennials but they’re still fearsomely popular among those of us of an older persuasion. So while only ‘mature’ people ...

You can use GIPHY in Slack to send GIFs to your coworkers, though it will need to be enabled by your workspace administrators.

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. GIFs are great for adding life to emails, documents, ...

During the Coronavirus lockdown, Americans turned to social media out of necessity to stay in touch with the outside world. Now, GIPHY (the online animated GIF database and library) released a study ...

Facebook announced Friday that it's buying Giphy, makers of the popular GIF generator website. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed officially, but some outlets are valuing the acquisition ...

Giphy is looking to improve accessibility and help more people understand what the platform's GIFs are depicting with the help of alt text descriptions. It has teamed up with a content accessibility ...