Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

Post by specialist » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:37 PM UTC

cosmie wrote: post #99

dumbfounder wrote: post #44

Congrats to Giphy, but honestly it baffles me they are worth this much money. Do they actually bring in decent revenue, or was this all about eyeballs? Is this content even decently monetizable? Disclaimer: I am the jaded creator of Twicsy, a Twitter picture engine with many millions of visitors over its lifetime, and I apparently missed the boat on this trends and had to shut it down.

Read the privacy policy[1]. Think of Giphy images as a giant, organically shared version of web tracking software. Which complements the coverage of the FB Pixel[2] well, as it worms its way into privacy-conscious areas they might not have FB Pixel coverage such as private communications and security/privacy-minded apps. And without implementing something like a proxy server to pre-cache/sanitize images and strip tra…

Post by jjoonathan » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:42 PM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #292

jjoonathan wrote: post #232

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Non-animated GIFs embed just fine, if that's what you mean. I just tried animated again, and sure enough, attachment.

S3 bucket, FTP folder, imgur... for your custom gif's and then you can paste a URL and get animation. No frills.

Post by jjoonathan » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:44 PM UTC

prophetjohn wrote: post #296

jjoonathan wrote: post #232

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Non-animated GIFs embed just fine, if that's what you mean. I just tried animated again, and sure enough, attachment.

Copy and paste it into slack instead

Post by wuliwong » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:48 PM UTC

volkk wrote: post #6

Congrats to giphy I guess? But I'll be honest, any time I've ever used them as an extension in slack or anywhere, and tried to get relevant gifs, I got back some really bad results. I'll never fully understand why they're so successful short of just dominating the market through sheer popularity. I remember switching our team over to rightgif and the difference was astounding given the fact that giphy has millions up…

Post by Aeolun » Fri, May 15, 2020, 8:52 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #138

yreg wrote: post #80

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I'd just like this trend of sending reaction gifs to end. People keep posting them in Slack all the time, but I find it about as appropriate as that brief time when all my uni teachers decided that it's hip to include rage comic faces into every other slide of every presentation. , yes I know, I'm fun at parties…

I can't grok this trend at all. All these replies in the form of memes make me feel like I'm in the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm grateful communication on MatterMost at my company has not seen the need for reaction gifs emerge; the wildest thing we have is a custom emoji of a dancing banana.