Company:Gfycat

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Gfycat, Inc.
Gfycat logo
Available inEnglish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Russian, Korean, Japanese
Founded2015; 9 years ago (2015)
HeadquartersEdmonton, Alberta, Canada
OwnerSnapchat
Founder(s)
  • Jeff Harris
  • Dan McEleney
  • Richard Rabbat
ServicesCreate, discover, and share GIFs and short videos
Websitegfycat.com
Users220 million MAU
Current statusActive

Gfycat (/ˈdʒɪfiːˌkæt/ JIFEE-cat)[1] is a user-generated short video hosting company founded by Richard Rabbat, Dan McEleney, and Jeff Harris.

History

Founded in 2013 in Edmonton, Canada , Gfycat was among the first web services to offer video encoding of GIFs. It was incorporated in the United States in 2015 and has since raised $12 million in seed funding.[2]

Gfycat offers a web platform for uploading and hosting short video content, as well as an iMessage app,[3][4] an Android app,[5] and the GIF Brewery macOS application for GIF and video creation.[6] It also has integrations with Reddit,[7] the messaging app Tango,[8] Microsoft Outlook,[9] Skype,[10] and WordPress,[11] among others. It was a finalist for the 2016 Advertising Age Creativity Awards in the "Startup to Watch" category.[12]

In 2016, Gfycat ranked within the top 57 websites in the U.S by traffic,[13] with over 130 million monthly active users in 2017.[14][15][16] Its users were primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries, with a significant foothold in Europe and Latin America. It supported sixteen languages, including English, French, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Chinese (traditional and simplified), Korean, and Arabic. Users fell primarily in the 18-35 age range.

Gfycat has offices in Edmonton, Alberta and Palo Alto, California.

In 2018 Gfycat had an alleged data breach; an estimated 8 million accounts were compromised, and its database was put for sale on the Dream Market.[17]

In December 2019, Gfycat started redgifs.com for adult content. On May 12, 2020, Gfycat banned the adult content completely. All the adult content was moved to Redgifs.com and Redgifs was acquired by a new company. As of 2021, short links made before the separation may be resolved by and hosted on redgifs.

Gfycat is currently owned by Snapchat.[18]

On May 18, 2023 the TLS certificate for gfycat.com expired. Problems with uploading had been reported for months prior to the certificate's expiration, with a lack of response from the company's support. On May 22, the TLS certificate was renewed, with a Snap Inc. spokesperson describing it as a "temporary issue", though problems with uploading to the site remain.[19]


References

  1. ↑ "About | Gfycat". https://gfycat.com/about. Retrieved 18 Sep 2019. 
  2. ↑ Kolodny, Lora (September 22, 2016). "Gfycat raises $10 million to help creatives fire up the memes". https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/22/gfycat-raises-10-million-to-help-creatives-fire-up-the-memes/. Retrieved October 12, 2016. 
  3. ↑ "Gfycat Loops - Product Hunt" (in en-US). https://www.producthunt.com/tech/gfycat-loops. Retrieved October 12, 2016. 
  4. ↑ Perez, Sarah (October 28, 2016). "Gfycat brings its higher quality GIFs and DIY creation tools to iMessage". https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/28/gfycat-brings-its-higher-quality-gifs-and-diy-creation-tools-to-imessage/. Retrieved November 25, 2016. 
  5. ↑ "Gfycat launches mobile GIF creator for Android". 12 December 2016. https://venturebeat.com/2016/12/12/gfycat-launches-mobile-gif-creator-for-android/. 
  6. ↑ Perez, Sarah (November 2, 2016). "Gfycat snaps up Mac app GIF Brewery to expand its GIF creation capabilities to the desktop". https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/02/gfycat-snaps-up-mac-app-gif-brewery-to-expand-its-gif-creation-capabilities-to-the-desktop/. Retrieved November 25, 2016. 
  7. ↑ "Gfycat's new Reddit bot supplies your dancing cat images on demand" (in en-US). Digital Trends. 2017-04-13. https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/gfycat-reddit-bot/. 
  8. ↑ "Tango now lets you post GIFs from the largest user-generated database in the world" (in en). The Daily Dot. 2017-02-14. http://www.dailydot.com/debug/tango-gif-keyboard-gyfcat/. 
  9. ↑ "Microsoft Outlook for Android now supports add-ins like Evernote and Trello". The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/11/16286392/microsoft-outlook-android-add-ins-support. 
  10. ↑ Perez, Sarah. "Skype's Snapchat-inspired makeover puts the camera a swipe away, adds stories" (in en). TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/01/skypes-snapchat-inspired-makeover-puts-the-camera-a-swipe-away-adds-stories/. 
  11. ↑ "Gfycat for WordPress" (in en-US). https://wordpress.org/plugins/gfycatpress/. 
  12. ↑ "See the Finalists for Ad Age's Creativity Awards" (in en). http://adage.com/article/agency-news/finalists-ad-age-s-creativity-awards/307928/. 
  13. ↑ "Top Sites in United States - Alexa". http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries;2/US. Retrieved October 12, 2016. 
  14. ↑ Lynley, Matthew. "Gfycat hits 130M monthly active users as short form video heats up" (in en). TechCrunch. https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/24/gfycat-hits-130m-monthly-active-users-as-short-form-video-heats-up/. 
  15. ↑ Snowdon, Wallis (October 6, 2016). "GIFs are big business for Edmonton's Gfycat start-up". CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/gifs-are-big-business-for-edmonton-s-gfycat-start-up-1.3794492. Retrieved October 12, 2016. 
  16. ↑ Kokalitcheva, Kia (November 7, 2016). "Here's How Gfycat Hopes to Stand Out From Other Social Media Apps". Fortune. http://fortune.com/2016/11/07/gfycat-gif-tool/. Retrieved November 25, 2016. 
  17. ↑ Swati Khandelwal (February 18, 2019). "620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites now for sale on dark web, seller boasts". TheHackerNews. https://thehackernews.com/2019/02/data-breach-sale-darkweb.html?m=1. Retrieved February 18, 2019. 
  18. ↑ Sandle, Paul (25 April 2022). "Meta fights to overturn UK order to sell Giphy". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-fights-overturn-uk-order-171627927.html. 
  19. ↑ Cole, Samantha (22 May 2023). "RIP Gfycat, the First Site To Make Gifs Look Good (UPDATED)". https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy37d7/gfycat-down-tls-security-certificate-expired. 

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