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Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock at a loss following UK order
Shutterstock is buying Giphy after the UK ordered Meta to sell the GIF service.
Jon Fingas05.23.2023
Giphy is adding alt text to make GIFs more accessible
This is a welcome accessibility improvement that could help visually impaired people better understand what's happening in GIFs.
Kris Holt12.06.2022
Meta will have to sell Giphy after losing UK appeal
Meta will be forced to sell Giphy after losing an appeal with a UK regulator.
Jon Fingas10.18.2022UK forces Meta to halt its forced sale of Giphy
The UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has ordered the country’s antitrust watchdog to review the decision to order Meta to sell Giphy.
Igor Bonifacic07.18.2022
Reddit won’t make you pay to comment in GIF form anymore
Most subreddits can switch them on for all their community members starting today.
Kris Holt07.13.2022
TikTok users will soon have an easier way to add popular GIFs
The TikTok Library will feature clips from TV shows that you can use too.
Kris Holt03.29.2022
TikTok rolls out 1080p uploads and more editing features
You can now use GIFs from Giphy as Green Screen backgrounds and turn your voice into a cat's meow.
Kris Holt12.16.2021
UK competition regulator orders Meta to sell Giphy
UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered Meta (Facebook) to sell Giphy, saying the deal "could harm social media users and UK advertisers."
Steve Dent11.30.2021
The UK's antitrust regulator is reportedly set to block Meta's purchase of Giphy
It would be the first Competition and Markets Authority reversal of a Big Tech acquisition.
Kris Holt11.29.2021
Facebook fined $69.6 million in the UK for breaking rules related to its Giphy takeover
The UK's competition authority has fined Facebook £50.5 million ($70 million) for breaching enforcement orders related its acquisition of Giphy.
Steve Dent10.20.2021
Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy following UK regulator findings
Facebook's acquisition of GIF-sharing platform Giphy raises competition concerns within social media and advertising, the UK's competition regulator has found.
Saqib Shah08.12.2021
Spotify and Giphy are 'enhancing' GIFs with music
Spotify and Giphy now give you a way to 'listen' to GIFs by pointing you to a musician's Spotify page.
Jon Fingas07.22.2021
UK's antitrust watchdog is investigating Facebook's purchase of Giphy
Facebook may have broken some antitrust laws when purchasing Giphy last month for a reported $400 million.
Marc DeAngelis06.12.2020
Facebook just bought Giphy
The GIF-sharing platform reportedly cost Facebook $400 million.
Kris Holt05.15.2020
Instagram will let you reply to Stories with GIFs
For a couple of years, Instagram users have been able to pull GIFs from Giphy to use as animated stickers in Stories. When your friend posts something that you just have to respond to and words or a static image just won't cut it, you might want to reply with a GIF of your own. And guess what? You can do just that following the app's latest update.
Kris Holt02.04.2020
Giphy's new video platform is basically GIFs with sound
Wherever you side on the pronunciation of GIF (JIF?), it's undeniable that they've become a critical part of our everyday communications. WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook support them as standard, and you've likely received more than one email from zany creative types with them embedded in their signature. Now, like the silent movie coming of age, they're getting a voice: Giphy is adding sound to its library of animated GIFs and stickers.
Rachel England12.11.2019
Adorable 'Baby Yoda' GIFs return after Giphy mix-up
One of the most relentlessly adorable characters in Star Wars history just got caught up in some copyright confusion. Giphy has restored GIFs of Disney+ series The Mandalorian's stand-out character The Child (nicknamed "baby Yoda" because... well, look at him) after "confusion" over whether or not the animations were allowed. Vulture claimed in a spoiler-laden piece that the GIFs of the cute-as-hell character were taken down for "copyright reasons," but Giphy has stressed that Disney wasn't responsible. Giphy only pulled the snippets temporarily while it "reviewed the situation," the company said in a statement to the BBC.
Jon Fingas11.25.2019
Giphy Arcade lets you play, create and share your own bite-sized games
While it has evolved over the last few years to be more than just a place to find your favorite looping images, Giphy's experiments with short-form video and emoji have felt like an extension of its obsession with GIFs. Giphy Arcade, a new subsection of Giphy's website devoted to small, bite-sized games, feels like a more substantial departure. If you fondly remember the days of Flash games like Desktop Tower Defense, Red Remover and Bookworm, the concept of Giphy Arcade will be intimately familiar.
Igor Bonifacic10.16.2019
News anchor sues Facebook, Reddit after creepy photo appears in ads
Fox 29 News anchor Karen Hepp filed a lawsuit against Facebook, Giphy, Imgur, Reddit and porn outlet XNXX for allegedly violating her right of publicity and causing irreparable harm to her reputation after a convenience store security photo of her surfaced on those sites without her consent.
Jon Fingas09.08.2019
Giphy is bringing GIF stickers to TikTok
TikTok, the app of choice for teens today, is adding another tool to its arsenal: stickers. The short-form video app owned by Bytedance is joining forces with Giphy. Users can add GIF stickers to their videos by simply hitting a button. Many of the stickers are inspired by memes that started on the platform itself, such as the expression "Here's the Tea" or the Blanco Brown-coined #thegitup.
Amrita Khalid08.01.2019
