The flow of technological progress takes a very weird sort of segue when it comes to GIFs. On one hand they’re very advanced photos and on the other hand they’re dated computer videos/animation. So ...

Instagram is the undisputed champion of mobile photography apps. It’s worth about $739.25 million (to Facebook at least) and is nearing 100 million users, with a new one added every second. The social ...

Between GIFs and emoji, exchanging real, full words is not just inconvenient, it’s outmoded. Happily, Giphy Cam—the mobile evolution of beloved online GIF library Giphy—weaves together these two ...

The massive adoption of smartphones is likely contributing to the shift toward visual communication. While the survey commissioned by Tenor found that people are using emojis, stickers and GIFs to ...

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 ...

I'd like to start with a simple public service announcement: Tumblr has its own GIF maker now, allowing you to create your own animated images from pictures and videos on your phone. That's right — ...

The world continues to attempt to develop quicker and shorter methods to present information and emotions to others. One of the latest, most powerful trends is the use of GIF images on mobile devices.

As brands such as Taco Bell and Lexus find mobile success by mimicking native behavior to reach millennials, a currently underused tool, the gif, has potential to boost efforts across the mobile Web, ...

I’m writing this post in an email, and want to show how I’m feeling. Why? Because a new, interesting product came out this morning. And how exactly does it make me feel? Well, like THIS: How did I add ...

If recent mobile technology releases are any indication, pictures are still worth a thousand words – and millions of dollars. Emojis and short animations have become mobile communication essentials.

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Giphy is launching another GIF-creation tool today, and the big hook is that there’s nothing to ...