![]() ![]() Rabbat said the company was at 56 million monthly active users in September last year, meaning the startup has more than doubled in size in the past year or so. Now the content is just going everywhere, and it’s a much more diverse environment than it used to be.” I think something on social is happening where people used to say, I’m just on Facebook or Twitter, and now they’re everywhere. We’re enabling more people to publish the content on different platforms. They want to discuss it on Facebook, Tweet about it, or put it anywhere else. “As we’re looking at what creators want, they want to tell a story and want to put it everywhere. “We focused a lot on creators over time,” Rabbat said. Giphy, a GIF keyboard and network, said it hit 200 million daily active users in July and has since hit 300 million DAUs, and all this growth just goes to show how effective GIFs have become as a way of cramming a lot of information into a small amount of space. That number counts how many users call in short form video from the startup’s back-end, which means that based on tracking mechanisms Rabbat says aims to be on the more conservative side. So it’s not surprising that Gfycat CEO Richard Rabbat would explain why the company says it has hit 130 million monthly active users as many of these startups start to run past the 100 million mark. But here we are in 2017, and there is a group of startups that are looking to bring the usage, or in the case of Gfycat the creation, of GIFs closer and closer to an everyday thing. GIFs - or, let’s call it for what it is: short-form video - were always pretty popular, but it still seems surprising that we would embed them into our phone’s keyboards. ![]()
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