About us

Who We Are

Gfycat: “The YouTube for GIFs”, is the web’s top destination site for engaging short-form content. We help brands break through by using our highly creative and innovative content, and allowing the audience to organically interact with their Ad experience through the use of GIFs rather than words.

Our Platform

Gfycat is GIF hosting with three unique advantages:

Speed – averaging 10x faster speeds that traditional GIF

Unlimited size – large GIFs or videos are no problem for us

Nifty features – analyze frame by frame by pausing, reversing, slowing down or speeding up

A few other great perks about our platform are our:

Links. Every link we generate includes a GIF file. Even if delivered by video, the GIF is always there. We pick the best format your browser can view, but as a user you can choose to view GIF only, or hotlink directly to the GIF.

Global CDN provides fast delivery anywhere in the world

Scalable server system designed to handle content that might go viral. Multiple layers of load balancing and caching with no single point of failure. No simple servers here.

RES integration! If you use Reddit Enhancement Suite, you can play Gfycat without even leaving reddit. Just click the Play button by the link.

Our Name

Gfy stands for “GIF Format Yoker”. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between GIF and HTML5 video by providing both – allowing users much faster delivery and more playback options. Cat has three stories:

Why not?

cat is a plain and simple Unix program designed to dump the contents of files. Gfycat is designed to dump the contents of GIFs, plainly and simply. (Also, we might want a UUOC award)

Cats made the Internet, or the Internet is made of cats.

Combine the two and you have us, Gfycat!

Gfycat's work

Gfycat Mission Impossible 360 GIF Launch

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