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Twitter is becoming worse in every way in order to chase the users of a larger social network that's worse in every way. The timeline isn't just about to become disjointed, it's going to become more inane as well.
> “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as they happen, helping to power Twitter’s live commentary and conversation,” says Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY. Someone built a 30+ person company around animated GIFs. And they say there isn't a bubble...
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I dont need to press a button. 'GIFs' play automatically for me in Twitter when they are scrolled into view, and paused when scrolled outside of the main view area - which I think is a good experience.
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How is what GIPHY is doing not just plain copyright infringement? I get the "search Engine" spiel, though questionable, on their site. But there is no attribution on Twitter/Slack etc.
It's funny that Twitter is doing a GIF search because Twitter encodes GIFs as MP4s for bandwidth/performance reasons: http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... I am assuming from this announcement that Giphy's Series C pitch deck was just one slide saying "we have a partnership with Twitter; give us money."
When will they add support for long GIFs with sound? /s There's a weird trend of taking full HD YouTube videos, converting them to soundless, bad quality GIFs and then upload them to twitter or imgur, where they're then encoded back to video. Quite often this goes without source to the original. I assume that people doing this just want to show the important content on the respective platform rather than sending a li…
From a technology perspective, dealing in GIF at this obnoxious volume will be needlessly expensive and difficult to scale.
Perhaps GIPHY has convinced VCs that they are a new medium within the 'storytelling' trend that many brands are latching on to. But I don't see GIPHY being able to scale this product successfully to the point where they can start monetizing, without having to abandon their antiquated file format.
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It's analogous to building a 30+ person company around MS Office clip art circa 1995 or Print Shop banner designs circa 1985, only now the company is valued at $300m with $50m funding. For gif search. Because I need those memes and I need them fast?
The difference is, that clip art company was directly selling a product. Make a collection of clipart, customers pay money.
That sounds fair. I haven't done any research on the company, but that seemed vague in their recent funding announcement/valuation.
However, I think it's fair to say that Giphy has created something people want to use. Anecdotally, their Slack integration is very popular in the channels I frequent. Maybe the lack of public monetization plan means bubble to you, but it seems the business at least has some value. I don't know if they'll be able to turn that value into revenue, but it seems plausible to me.
I'm not really arguing against your opinion. I'm just trying to get clarity on exactly why you think Giphy is indicative of a bubble. Searching for funny gifs may seem frivolous, but it's something people value. If Giphy can capitalize on that value without losing users / destroying the brand, it seems like a reasonable foundation for a business.
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When will they add support for long GIFs with sound? /s There's a weird trend of taking full HD YouTube videos, converting them to soundless, bad quality GIFs and then upload them to twitter or imgur, where they're then encoded back to video. Quite often this goes without source to the original. I assume that people doing this just want to show the important content on the respective platform rather than sending a li…
Viewing a gif or mp4 is much more lightweight on mobile than a youtube video.
> “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as they happen, helping to power Twitter’s live commentary and conversation,” says Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY. Someone built a 30+ person company around animated GIFs. And they say there isn't a bubble...
> “GIPHY delivers real-time GIFs as they happen, helping to power Twitter’s live commentary and conversation,” says Alex Chung, founder and CEO of GIPHY. Someone built a 30+ person company around animated GIFs. And they say there isn't a bubble...