Gfycat

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

Gfycat, Inc.
Available inEnglish, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Polish, Russian, Korean, Japanese
Founded2015 (2015)
HeadquartersSan Francisco, California, United States
Founder(s)
  • Jeff Harris
  • Dan McEleney
  • Richard Rabbat
ServicesCreate, discover, and share GIFs and short videos
URLgfycat.com
Users220 million MAU
Current statusactive

History

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

Currently, 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]

Gfycat currently ranks within the top 57 in the U.S,[13] with over 130 million monthly active users.[14][15][16] Its users are primarily concentrated in English-speaking countries, with a significant foothold in Europe and Latin America. It supports sixteen languages, including English, French, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Chinese, (traditional and simplified), Korean, and Arabic. Users fall 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.

References
  1. "About | Gfycat". Gfycat.com. Retrieved 18 Sep 2019.
  2. Kolodny, Lora (September 22, 2016). "Gfycat raises $10 million to help creatives fire up the memes". TechCrunch. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  3. "Gfycat Loops - Product Hunt". Product Hunt. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  4. Perez, Sarah (October 28, 2016). "Gfycat brings its higher quality GIFs and DIY creation tools to iMessage". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  5. "Gfycat launches mobile GIF creator for Android". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  6. Perez, Sarah (November 2, 2016). "Gfycat snaps up Mac app GIF Brewery to expand its GIF creation capabilities to the desktop". TechCrunch. Retrieved November 25, 2016.
  7. "Gfycat's new Reddit bot supplies your dancing cat images on demand". Digital Trends. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  8. "Tango now lets you post GIFs from the largest user-generated database in the world". The Daily Dot. 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
  9. "Microsoft Outlook for Android now supports add-ins like Evernote and Trello". The Verge. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  10. Perez, Sarah. "Skype's Snapchat-inspired makeover puts the camera a swipe away, adds stories". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  11. "Gfycat for WordPress". WordPress.org. Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  12. "See the Finalists for Ad Age's Creativity Awards". Retrieved 2017-10-16.
  13. "Top Sites in United States - Alexa". www.alexa.com. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  14. Lynley, Matthew. "Gfycat hits 130M monthly active users as short form video heats up". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-10-30.
  15. Snowdon, Wallis (October 6, 2016). "GIFs are big business for Edmonton's Gfycat start-up". CBC News. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
  16. Kokalitcheva, Kia (November 7, 2016). "Here's How Gfycat Hopes to Stand Out From Other Social Media Apps". Fortune. 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. Retrieved February 18, 2019.
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