Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
by Sholmesy on Monday July 31, 2017 @01:39PM
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You might be right. I've never thought of giphy as just an image hosting platform though. It's more about the integrations with apps that is their edge. Something imageshack/imgur never really nailed.
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Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
by riffraff on Monday July 31, 2017 @03:31PM
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but how is that integration monetizable?
The moment `/giphy cat` in slack returns sponsored content is the exact moment people will disable it.
Re:With 200M daily users, Giphy will soon test sponsored GIFs
by Sholmesy on Monday July 31, 2017 @04:31PM
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Same.
But I think there are variations on this that work/make money.
`/giphy football` could return some relevant superbowl sponsored gif as one of the first N gifs. Kinda like how google gives you 3 "relevant" ads before showing you the actual search content. Start subtle, get more and more brash as time goes and people won't notice. I guess making it work without people leaving is the $600M question.