The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they’ve outlived their coolness, they remain popular with a certain vintage of internet user (like ...

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 ...

Peppering a conversion with GIFs can make things more fun and help you express your feelings. GIFs are also great for making online content like blog posts more appealing! But searching for the right ...

Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some halfway interesting visuals based ...

Giphy launched GIF Maker on the mobile web, allowing mobile users to create GIFs without downloading an application. When using GIF Maker on the mobile web, users can create GIFs by importing images ...

There's a new kid on the GIF-creation scene, and it's a good kid. This week, Imgur launched a new "Video to GIF" feature that lets you enter a URL, adjust the parameters of a clip, and get a ...

Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the one ...

Tumblr today is launching a new tool that will capitalize on its community’s love for both creating and sharing GIFs with the debut of a mobile-only “GIF Maker.” The tool, which lets you quickly turn ...

There's no need to scroll through digital libraries and databases for pre-made and overused reaction GIFs or animated memes — you can make your own. DIY GIF-making is possible on your Android or ...

Adam has a degree in Engineering, having always been fascinated by how tech works. Tech websites have saved him hours of tearing his hair out on countless occasions, and he enjoys the opportunity to ...

Vevo wants to make it easier to turn music videos into GIFs: The major label-owned music video platform launched a GIF maker Monday that allows anyone to select up to five second long snippets from ...