Welcome to this week's top social media news: Instagram introduced a new sticker, Nike celebrates 30 years of Air Max 90, and Facebook acquired GIPHY!
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Facebook is acquiring the popular GIF-making and sharing platform GIPHY with plans to integrate it into Instagram and other Facebook apps.
Another small update, but a cool one nonetheless! Instagram has announced that you can now reply to Stories with GIFs from GIPHY.
Giphy Arcade is a new platform that allows users to create, play and share their own Giphy-powered microgames.
Oracle announced this week that GIPHY will now use Oracle Moat to measure ad delivery, viewability, and invalid traffic for branded GIFs.
TikTok is now integrated with GIPHY, allowing its users to import animated Stickers and to export GIFs to the GIF platform for use on others.
Giphy launched an iOS update which makes it possible to type out any GIF your want from virtually everywhere on your screen.
Instagram last week announced a new feature that allows users to send GIFs in Instagram Direct message threads.
GIPHY is launching a film festival that will award films up to 18 seconds in length. But that's not all. They will have to be GIFs of course!
After both Instagram and Snapchat removed the GIPHY feature from their apps last month, Snapchat has just reinstated the feature again. Instagram had already done so a week ago after strengthening its own moderation features.
GIPHY gets in trouble, Twitter wants to verify everyone, Facebook has a new video uploader and YouTube Stories can do magic.
Snapchat and Instagram have both temporarily removed their GIPHY feature after users found a racist GIF as an option within the apps.
It seems it's Snapchat's turn to copy Instagram, with a new feature that brings animated GIF stickers to Stories.
Instagram has partnered with GIPHY to add animated GIF stickers to Stories, and the (social) world will never be the same again.
As more and more people use GIFs to express themselves every day, it's only fitting that creators would be given the ability to track the popularity of their GIFs. To do so, GIPHY has added …
You don't need complicated software and very expensive hardware to create great ads to run on Instagram or Facebook. All you need is your mobile phone!"What does is take to make a great ad?" That's …
Love GIFs? Everyone does. And now, you won't need a separate app to create them. GIPHY created GIF Maker, an online tool that works in your browser - mobile or otherwise. GIFs may have just turned …
Facebook is now allowing users to upload GIFs - just like they would an image or video on the platform - without having to rely on an external GIF-hosting service. Facebook has always been hesitant to …