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GIF became popular because it used Lempel–Ziv–Welch data compression. Since this was more efficient than the run-length encoding used by PCX and MacPaint, fairly large images could be downloaded reasonably quickly even with slow modems. The original version of GIF was called 87a. [1] This version already supported multiple images in a stream.
Vine, a short-form video sharing service where users can share six-second-long looping video clips, is founded by Dom Hofmann, Rus Yusupov, and Colin Kroll. [43] [44] 2012 December Companies Snapchat adds the ability to send video snaps in addition to photos. [45] 2013 June 13 Product Instagram launches video sharing. [46] 2015 January 27 Products
In 2019, everything was fair game to become a GIF and the top 10 GIFs of the year reflect how people collectively felt this year.
In August 2013, Giphy expanded beyond a search engine to allow users to post, embed and share GIFs on Facebook. [10] [11] [12] Giphy was then recognized as a Top 100 Website of 2013, according to PC Magazine. [13] Three months later, Giphy integrated with Twitter to enable users to share GIFs by simply sharing a GIF's URL. [14]
ASKfm, a social network based on asking questions, combed through top trending GIFs on its site in February to see which clips people are using to communicate with the most.
A study on viral videos by Carnegie Mellon University found that the popularity of the uploader affected whether a video would become viral, [39] and having the video shared by a popular source such as a celebrity or a news channel also increases buzz. [37] It is also part of the algorithm YouTube uses to predict popular videos. [35]
YouTube's intent in the creation of YouTube Shorts in 2020 was to compete with TikTok, [4] an online video platform for short clips. The company started by experimenting with vertical videos up to a length of 30 seconds in their own section within the YouTube homepage. [5] This early beta was released only to a small number of people.
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